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Measurement of scintillation efficiency for nuclear recoils in liquid argon

2012; American Institute of Physics; Volume: 85; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physrevc.85.065811

ISSN

1538-4497

Autores

D. Gastler, E. Kearns, Andrew Hime, L. C. Stonehill, S. R. Seibert, J. Klein, W. H. Lippincott, D. N. McKinsey, J. A. Nikkel,

Tópico(s)

Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies

Resumo

The scintillation light yield of liquid argon from nuclear recoils relative to electronic recoils has been measured as a function of recoil energy from 10 keVr up to 250 keVr. The scintillation efficiency, defined as the ratio of the nuclear recoil scintillation response to the electronic recoil response, is 0.25 \pm 0.01 + 0.01(correlated) above 20 keVr.

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