Issue |
EPL
Volume 111, Number 1, July 2015
|
|
---|---|---|
Article Number | 12001 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Nuclear Physics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/111/12001 | |
Published online | 27 July 2015 |
Attenuation of vacuum ultraviolet light in pure and xenon-doped liquid argon —An approach to an assignment of the near-infrared emission from the mixture
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
(a) andreas.ulrich@ph.tum.de (corresponding author)
Received: 6 May 2015
Accepted: 3 July 2015
Results of transmission experiments of vacuum ultraviolet light through a 11.6 cm long cell filled with pure and xenon-doped liquid argon are described. Pure liquid argon shows no attenuation down to the experimental short-wavelength cut-off at 118 nm. Based on a conservative approach, a lower limit of 1.10 m for the attenuation length of its own scintillation light could be derived. Adding xenon to liquid argon at concentrations on the order of parts per million leads to strong xenon-related absorption features which are used for a tentative assignment of the recently found near-infrared emission observed in electron-beam excited liquid argon-xenon mixtures. Two of the three absorption features can be explained by perturbed xenon transitions and the third one by a trapped exciton (Wannier-Mott) impurity state. A calibration curve connecting the equivalent width of the absorption line at 140 nm with xenon concentration is provided.
PACS: 29.40.Mc – Scintillation detectors / 33.20.Ni – Vacuum ultraviolet spectra / 61.25.Bi – Liquid noble gases
© EPLA, 2015
Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.
Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.
Initial download of the metrics may take a while.