First results of a large-area cryogenic gaseous photomultiplier coupled to a dual-phase liquid xenon TPC

被引：11
作者：
Arazi, L. [1 ]
Coimbra, A. E. C. [1 ,2 ]
Erdal, E. [1 ]
Israelashvili, I. [1 ,3 ]
Rappaport, M. L. [1 ]
Shchemelinin, S. [1 ]
Vartsky, D. [1 ]
dos Santos, J. M. F. [2 ]
Breskin, A. [1 ]
机构：
[1] Weizmann Inst Sci, IL-76100 Rehovot, Israel
[2] Univ Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
[3] Nucl Res Ctr Negev, IL-9001 Beer Sheva, Israel
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JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION | 2015年 / 10卷
基金：
以色列科学基金会;
关键词：
Noble liquid detectors (scintillation; ionization; double-phase); Micropattern gaseous detectors (MSGC; GEM; THGEM; RETHGEM; MHSP; MICROPIC; MICROMEGAS; InGrid; etc); Photon detectors for UV; visible and IR photons (gas) (gas-photocathodes; solid-photocathodes); DARK-MATTER EXPERIMENT; HADRON BLIND DETECTOR; GEM; CONSTRUCTION; MULTIPLIERS;
D O I：
10.1088/1748-0221/10/10/P10020
中图分类号：
TH7 [仪器、仪表];
学科分类号：
0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;
摘要：
We discuss recent advances in the development of cryogenic gaseous photomultipliers (GPM), for possible use in dark matter and other rare-event searches using noble-liquid targets. We present results from a 10 cm diameter GPM coupled to a dual-phase liquid xenon (LXe) TPC, demonstrating - for the first time - the feasibility of recording both primary ("S1") and secondary ("S2") scintillation signals. The detector comprised a triple Thick Gas Electron Multiplier (THGEM) structure with cesium iodide photocathode on the first element; it was shown to operate stably at 180K with gains above 10(5), providing high single-photon detection efficiency even in the presence of large alpha particle-induced S2 signals comprising thousands of photoelectrons. S1 scintillation signals were recorded with a time resolution of 1.2 ns (RMS). The energy resolution (sigma/E) for S2 electroluminescence of 5.5MeV alpha particles was similar to 9%, which is comparable to that obtained in the XENON100 TPC with PMTs. The results are discussed within the context of potential GPM deployment in future multi-ton noble-liquid detectors.
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