2024/11/12 by Miquel Adrover, Adrover, M., M. Babicz +31
Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #Nuclear Physics and Applications #Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2411.08022
openalex publication_date 2024/11/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
Xenoscope is a demonstrator for a next-generation xenon-based observatory for astroparticle physics, as proposed by the XLZD (XENON-LUX-ZEPLIN-DARWIN) collaboration. It houses a 2.6 m tall, two-phase xenon time projection chamber (TPC), in a cryostat filled with ∼ 360 kg of liquid xenon. The main goals of the facility are to demonstrate electron drift in liquid xenon over this distance, to measure the electron cloud transversal and longitudinal diffusion, as well as the optical properties of the medium. In this work, we describe in detail the construction and commissioning of the TPC and report on the observation of light and charge signals with cosmic muons.