Measurement of the drift velocity and transverse diffusion of electrons in liquid xenon with the EXO-200 detector

doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.95.025502

Measurement of the drift velocity and transverse diffusion of electrons in liquid xenon with the EXO-200 detector

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The EXO-200 Collaboration is searching for neutrinoless double β decay using a liquid xenon (LXe) time projection chamber. This measurement relies on modeling the transport of charge deposits produced by interactions in the LXe to allow discrimination between signal and background events. Here we present measurements of the transverse diffusion constant and drift velocity of electrons at drift fields between 20 V/cm and 615 V/cm using EXO-200 data. At the operating field of 380 V/cm EXO-200 measures a drift velocity of 1.705-0.010+0.014mm/μs and a transverse diffusion coefficient of 55±4cm2/s.

Original language	English
Article number	025502
Journal	Physical Review C
Volume	95
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.95.025502
State	Published - Feb 14 2017

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We also gratefully acknowledge the KARMEN collaboration for supplying the cosmic-ray veto detectors, and the WIPP for their hospitality. EXO-200 is supported by DOE and NSF in the United States, NSERC in Canada, SNF in Switzerland, IBS in Korea, RFBR in Russia, DFG Cluster of Excellence Universe in Germany, and CAS and ISTCP in China. EXO-200 data analysis and simulation uses resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC).

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U.S. Department of Energy Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Project Oak Ridge National Laboratory Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment National Science Foundation National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center National Natural Science Foundation of China
DFG Cluster of Excellence Universe in Germany
College of Arts and Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Russian Foundation for Basic Research
U.S. Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory U.S. Department of Energy National Science Foundation National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
International Science and Technology Cooperation Programme
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung

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Measurement of the drift velocity and transverse diffusion of electrons in liquid xenon with the EXO-200 detector

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