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Title

Measurement of Scintillation Efficiency for Nuclear Recoils in Liquid Argon

Author(s)

Dan Gastler, Boston University
Ed Kearns, Boston University
Andrew Hime, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Laura C. Stonehill, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Stan Seibert, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Josh Klein, University of PennsylvaniaFollow
W. Hugh Lippincott, Yale University
Daniel N. McKinsey, Yale University
James A. Nikkel, Yale University

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of this Version

6-27-2012

Abstract

The scintillation light yield of liquid argon from nuclear recoils relative to electronic recoils has been measured as a function of recoil energy from 10 keVr up to 250 keVr at zero electric field. The scintillation efficiency, defined as the ratio of the nuclear recoil scintillation response to the electronic recoil response, is 0.25 ± 0.01 + 0.01 (correlated) above 20 keVr.

Comments

Gastler, D., Kearns, E., Hime, A., Stonehill, L. C., Seibert, S., Klein, J., Lippincott, W. H., McKinsey, D. N., & Nikkel, J. A. (2012). Measurement of Scintillation Efficiency for Nuclear Recoils in Liquid Argon. Physical Review C, 85(6), 065811. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.85.065811

© 2012 American Physical Society

Recommended Citation

Gastler, D., Kearns, E., Hime, A., Stonehill, L. C., Seibert, S., Klein, J., Lippincott, W. H., McKinsey, D. N., & Nikkel, J. A. (2012). Measurement of Scintillation Efficiency for Nuclear Recoils in Liquid Argon. Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/physics_papers/247