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HK: Fachverband Physik der Hadronen und Kerne

HK 46: Instrumentation

HK 46.8: Talk

Tuesday, March 5, 2013, 18:30–18:45, WIL-A221

Wavelength Shifting Reflector Foils for Liquid Ar Scintillation Light — •Manuel Walter — Physik Institut, Universität Zürich, Schweiz

Liquid argon is used as a scintillator in several present and upcoming experiments. In Gerda it is used as a coolant, shielding and will be instrumented to become an active veto in Phase II. Its scintillation light has a wavelength of 128 nm, that gets absorbed by quartz. In order to measure the light using photo multiplier tubes (PMT) for cryogenic temperatures which have a quartz window, it is converted to longer wavelength by coated reflector foils. The conversion efficiency and stability of several such coatings was optimized using VM2000 and Tetratex separately as reflector foils. The efficiency has been measured in a liquid Ar set up build especially for this purpose. It employs a 3" low radioactivity PMT of type R11065-10 from Hamamatsu, the favorite photo sensor candidate to be used in Gerda.