First results on light readout from the 1-ton ArDM liquid argon detector for dark matter searches

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Amsler, C ^a   Badertscher, A ^b   Boccone, V ^a   Bueno, A ^c   Carmona Benitez, M C ^c   Creus, W ^a   Curioni, A ^b   Daniel, M ^d   Dawe, E J ^e   Degunda, U ^b   Gendotti, A ^b   Epprecht, L ^b   Horikawa, S ^b   Kaufmann, L ^b   Knecht, L ^b   Laffranchi, M ^b   Lazzaro, C ^b   Lightfoot, P K ^e   Lussi, D ^b   Lozano, J ^c   Marchionni, A ^b   Mavrokoridis, K ^e   Melgarejo, A ^c   Mijakowski, P ^f   Natterer, G ^b   Navas Concha, S ^c   Otyugova, P ^a   De Prado, M ^d   Przewlocki, P ^f   Regenfus, C ^a   Resnati, F ^b   Robinson, M ^e   Rochet, J ^a   Romero, L ^d   Rondio, E ^f   Rubbia, A ^b   Scotto Lavina, L ^a   Spooner, N J C ^e   Strauss, T ^b   Ulbricht, J ^b   Viant, T ^b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^d CIEMAT   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^f SOLTAN INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics; Liquid detectors; Photon detectors for UV; visible and IR photons (vacuum) (photomultipliers, HPDs, others)

Indexed keywords

ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS; DARK MATTER SEARCHES; LIGHT-DETECTION SYSTEMS; LIQUID ARGON DETECTORS; LIQUID DETECTORS; PHOTON DETECTOR; SCINTILLATION LIGHT; VISIBLE AND IR PHOTONS (VACUUM) (PHOTOMULTIPLIERS, HPDS, OTHERS);

ELECTRIC FIELDS; LIGHT; LIQUEFIED GASES; PHOTONS;

DETECTORS;

EID: 78649852061     PISSN: 17480221     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/5/11/P11003     Document Type: Article

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