1. A liquid xenon ionization chamber in an all-fluoropolymer vessel
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EXO Collaboration, LePort, F., Pocar, A., Bartoszek, L., DeVoe, R., Fierlinger, P., Flatt, B., Gratta, G., Green, M., Koffas, T., Diez, M. Montero, Neilson, R., O'Sullivan, K., Waldman, S., Wodin, J., Woisard, D., Baussan, E., Breidenbach, M., Conley, R., Fairbank Jr., W., Farine, J., Hall, C., Hall, K., Hallman, D., Hargrove, C., Hodgson, J., Jeng, S., Leonard, D. S., Mackay, D., Martin, Y., Odian, A., Ounalli, L., Piepke, A., Prescott, C. Y., Rowson, P. C., Skarpaas, K., Schenker, D., Sinclair, D., Stekhanov, V., Strickland, V., Virtue, C., Vuilleumier, J. -L., Vuilleumier, J. -M., Wamba, K., and Weber, P.
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Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,Helium ionization detector ,Physics::Medical Physics ,FOS: Physical sciences ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Particle detector ,Nuclear physics ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Xenon ,Optics ,Pulsed discharge ionization detector ,Ionization ,Physics::Atomic and Molecular Clusters ,Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) ,Discharge ionization detector ,Instrumentation ,Nuclear Experiment ,Physics ,business.industry ,Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) ,chemistry ,Ionization chamber ,Fluoropolymer ,business - Abstract
A novel technique has been developed to build vessels for liquid xenon ionization detectors entirely out of ultra-clean fluoropolymer. We describe the advantages in terms of low radioactivity contamination, provide some details of the construction techniques, and show the energy resolution achieved with a prototype all-fluoropolymer ionization detector., 12 pages, 9 figures
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- 2006