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CALIS - a CALibration Insertion System for the DarkSide-50 dark matter search experiment
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- This paper describes the design, fabrication, commissioning and use of a CALibration source Insertion System (CALIS) in the DarkSide-50 direct dark matter search experiment. CALIS deploys radioactive sources into the liquid scintillator veto to characterize the detector response and detection efficiency of the DarkSide-50 Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber, and the surrounding 30 t organic liquid scintillator neutron veto. It was commissioned in September 2014 and has been used successfully in several gamma and neutron source campaigns since then. A description of the hardware and an excerpt of calibration analysis results are given below.<br />Comment: 21 pages, 11 figures
- Subjects :
- Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
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Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1611.02750
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/12/12/T12004