Measurement of scintillation efficiency for nuclear recoils in liquid argon

2010/04/30 by D. Gastler, E. Kearns, A. Hime +8 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies #astro-ph.IM #nucl-ex #physics.ins-det

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevc.85.065811

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Abstract

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 ± 0.01 + 0.01(correlated) above 20 keVr.

Citations

• Scintillation efficiency and ionization yield of liquid xenon for monoenergetic nuclear recoils down to 4 keV
• Correlated fluctuations between luminescence and ionization in liquid xenon

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• Argon [wikipedia]