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Development of a $^{83\mathrm{m}}$Kr source for the calibration of the CENNS-10 Liquid Argon Detector

Authors :
COHERENT Collaboration
Akimov, D.
An, P.
Awe, C.
Barbeau, P. S.
Becker, B.
Belov, V.
Bernardi, I.
Blackston, M. A.
Blokland, L.
Bolozdynya, A.
Cabrera-Palmer, B.
Chen, N.
Chernyak, D.
Conley, E.
Daughhetee, J.
Coello, M. del Valle
Detwiler, J. A.
Durand, M. R.
Efremenko, Y.
Elliott, S. R.
Fabris, L.
Febbraro, M.
Fox, W.
Galindo-Uribarri, A.
Rosso, A. Gallo
Green, M. P.
Hansen, K. S.
Heath, M. R.
Hedges, S.
Hughes, M.
Johnson, T.
Khromov, A.
Konovalov, A.
Kozlova, E.
Kumpan, A.
Li, L.
Librande, J. T.
Link, J. M.
Liu, J.
Mann, K.
Markoff, D. M.
McGoldrick, O.
Mueller, P. E.
Newby, J.
Parno, D. S.
Pentilla, S.
Pershey, D.
Radford, D.
Rapp, R.
Ray, H.
Raybern, J.
Razuvaeva, O.
Reyna, D.
Rich, G. C.
Rudik, D.
Runge, J.
Salvat, D. J.
Scholberg, K.
Shakirov, A.
Simakov, G.
Snow, W. M.
Sosnovtsev, V.
Suh, B.
Tayloe, R.
Tellez-Giron-Flores, K.
Thornton, R. T.
Tolstukhin, I.
Vanderwerp, J.
Varner, R. L.
Venkataraman, R.
Virtue, C. J.
Visser, G.
Wiseman, C.
Wongjirad, T.
Yang, J.
Yen, Y. -R.
Yoo, J.
Yu, C. -H.
Zettlemoyer, J.
Source :
JINST 16 P04002 (2021)
Publication Year :
2020

Abstract

We report on the preparation of and calibration measurements with a $^{83\mathrm{m}}$Kr source for the CENNS-10 liquid argon detector. $^{83\mathrm{m}}$Kr atoms generated in the decay of a $^{83}$Rb source were introduced into the detector via injection into the Ar circulation loop. Scintillation light arising from the 9.4 keV and 32.1 keV conversion electrons in the decay of $^{83\mathrm{m}}$Kr in the detector volume were then observed. This calibration source allows the characterization of the low-energy response of the CENNS-10 detector and is applicable to other low-energy-threshold detectors. The energy resolution of the detector was measured to be 9$\%$ at the total $^{83\mathrm{m}}$Kr decay energy of 41.5 keV. We performed an analysis to separately calibrate the detector using the two conversion electrons at 9.4 keV and 32.1 keV<br />Comment: v2: As accepted to JINST

Details

Database :
arXiv
Journal :
JINST 16 P04002 (2021)
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.2010.11258
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/16/04/P04002