Photodegradation mechanisms of tetraphenyl butadiene coatings for liquid argon detectors

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Jones, B J P ^a   Vangemert, J K ^b   Conrad, J M ^a   Pla Dalmau, A ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Noble liquid detectors (scintillation, ionization two phase); Photon detectors for UV, visible and IR photons (gas) (gas photocathodes, solid photocathodes); Scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, gas and liquid scintillators)

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION MECHANISM; EMISSION PROCESS; EXPONENTIAL INCREASE; LIQUID ARGON DETECTORS; NOBLE-LIQUID DETECTORS (SCINTILLATION, IONIZATION TWO-PHASE); PHOTON DETECTOR; ULTRAVIOLET LIGHTS; WAVELENGTH SHIFTING;

BUTADIENE; COATINGS; DEGRADATION; EXPERIMENTS; FIELD EMISSION CATHODES; FREE RADICALS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; INERT GASES; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; LIQUEFIED GASES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHOTOCATHODES; PHOTOIONIZATION; PHOTONS; PHOTOOXIDATION; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

IONIZATION OF GASES;

EID: 84877773062     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/8/01/P01013     Document Type: Article

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