Paper
Design and operation of a spark chamber for vacuum ultraviolet light production
Authors
Silas Bosco, Jonas Bürgi, Livio Calivers, Richard Diurba, Johannes Furrer, Jan Kunzmann, Saba Parsa, Sascha Rivera, Nicolas Sallin, Camilla Tognina, Serhan Tufanli, Michele Weber, Dominik Wermelinger
Abstract
Noble liquids, notably argon and xenon, are utilised as both detector media and as the detector target for dark matter and neutrino physics experiments. When the noble liquid is excited by particles, it scintillates vacuum ultraviolet light, which sensors then detect. A major focus of the detector development community is on producing precision light sensors for noble liquid detectors. We introduce a flash lamp to test light sensors with light at wavelengths observed at noble liquid detectors. This paper discusses the design and presents results from a spark chamber prototype operated at room temperature.
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