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Volume 106, Number 3, May 2014
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Article Number | 32001 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Nuclear Physics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/106/32001 | |
Published online | 12 May 2014 |
Intense infrared scintillation of liquid Ar-Xe mixtures
1 Physik- Department E15, Technische Universität München - James-Franck-Straße 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
2 Physik- Department E12, Technische Universität München - James-Franck-Straße 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
3 Excitech GmbH - Branterei 33, 26419 Schortens, Germany
(b) andreas.ulrich@ph.tum.de (corresponding author)
Received: 6 March 2014
Accepted: 14 April 2014
Intense infrared (IR) light emission from liquid Ar-Xe mixtures has been observed using 12 keV electron-beam excitation. The emission peaks at a wavelength of and the half-width of the emission band is . Maximum intensity has been found for a 10 ppm xenon admixture in liquid argon. The conversion efficiency of electron-beam power to IR light is about 1% (10000 photons per MeV electron energy deposited). A possible application of this intense IR emission for a new particle discrimination concept in liquid noble gas detectors is discussed. No light emission was found for perfectly purified liquid argon in the wavelength range from 0.5 to on the current level of sensitivity.
PACS: 29.40.Mc – Scintillation detectors / 61.25.Bi – Liquid noble gases / 78.30.cc – Inorganic liquids
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