scholarly journals Evidence of delayed light emission of tetraphenyl-butadiene excited by liquid-argon scintillation light

2015 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Segreto
Keyword(s):  
Light Emission ◽  
Liquid Argon ◽  
Scintillation Light ◽  
Delayed Light Emission

scholarly journals Predicting transport effects of scintillation light signals in large-scale liquid argon detectors

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Garcia-Gamez ◽  
Patrick Green ◽  
Andrzej M. Szelc
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Light Propagation ◽  
Liquid Argon ◽  
Equivalent Model ◽  
Neutrino Beam ◽  
Scintillation Light ◽  
Arrival Times ◽  
Light Detector ◽  
Transport Effects ◽  
Time Projection

AbstractLiquid argon is being employed as a detector medium in neutrino physics and Dark Matter searches. A recent push to expand the applications of scintillation light in Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber neutrino detectors has necessitated the development of advanced methods of simulating this light. The presently available methods tend to be prohibitively slow or imprecise due to the combination of detector size and the amount of energy deposited by neutrino beam interactions. In this work we present a semi-analytical model to predict the quantity of argon scintillation light observed by a light detector with a precision better than $$10\%$$ 10 % , based only on the relative positions between the scintillation and light detector. We also provide a method to predict the distribution of arrival times of these photons accounting for propagation effects. Additionally, we present an equivalent model to predict the number of photons and their arrival times in the case of a wavelength-shifting, highly-reflective layer being present on the detector cathode. Our proposed method can be used to simulate light propagation in large-scale liquid argon detectors such as DUNE or SBND, and could also be applied to other detector mediums such as liquid xenon or xenon-doped liquid argon.

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