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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik
T 106: Niederenergie-Neutrinophysik/Suche nach dunkler Materie III
T 106.7: Talk
Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 18:20–18:35, 30.95: 121
The scintillation of liquid argon - from the VUV region to near infrared — •Thomas Heindl1, Thomas Dandl1, Martin Hofmann2, Reiner Krücken1, Lothar Oberauer2, Walter Potzel2, Jochen Wieser3, and Andreas Ulrich1 — 1Physik Department E12, TU-München, Garching, Germany — 2Physik Department E15, TU-München, Garching, Germany — 3OPTIMARE Analytik GmbH & Co. KG - Emsstr. 20, 26382 Wilhelmshaven, Germany
Several large scale liquid rare-gas based scintillation detectors have been recently built to search for non baryonic Dark Matter. The spectral and temporal emission properties of the scintillation light emitted from liquid argon have been studied in the context of these detectors [1]. A table-top setup has been developed in which continuous and pulsed low energy electron beams are used to induce the light emission. The detection system covers a spectral range from 110 to 1000 nm in wavelength. Time resolution is on the order of 1 ns.
[1] T. Heindl et al., EPL, 91, (2010) 62002