A LOW RADIOACTIVITY ACRYLIC TPC FILLED WITH CF4 AT HIGH-PRESSURE

Authors
BROGGINI C
Citation
C. Broggini, A LOW RADIOACTIVITY ACRYLIC TPC FILLED WITH CF4 AT HIGH-PRESSURE, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 332(3), 1993, pp. 413-418
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Physics, Particles & Fields","Instument & Instrumentation",Spectroscopy
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment → ACNP
ISSN journal
01689002
Volume
332
Issue
3
Year of publication
1993
Pages
413 - 418
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1993)332:3<413:ALRATF>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
A prototype time projection chamber, the first of this kind constructe d in acrylic in order to be used as a low radioactivity, low energy de tector, is described. A similar detector, of larger size, will be used in experiments to measure the neutrino-electron scattering and to sea rch for rare events such as neutrinoless double beta decay and dark ma tter scattering. The behaviour of the chamber, filled with CF4 at 5 ba r, which is an ideal gas for the study of the nu(e)e-BAR reaction, is discussed together with the results obtained on the electron drift len gth and on the energy resolution.