Liquid Argon Detectors: Instrumentation and Applications
A special issue of Instruments (ISSN 2410-390X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2021) | Viewed by 21061
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Interests: instrumentation; noble gas detectors; neutrino detectors; high-energy physics
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Interests: instrumentation; noble gas detectors; neutrino and dark matter detectors; high energy physics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is our pleasure to announce this Special Issue devoted to liquid argon detectors.
Liquid-argon-based detectors have been used for several years in dark matter and neutrino oscillation experiments on the scale from small masses up to a few hundred tonnes. For the next generation of experiments, scaling up is expected to reach 200 tonnes for dark matter search and up to several tens of kton for the next generation of long baseline neutrino oscillation. This implies that new instrumentation challenges have to be faced.
This is the right moment to provide a state-of-the-art summary of the instrumentation related to liquid argon detectors, including novel detector concepts, and the possible applications that might go beyond dark matter and neutrino experiments.
Thus, we invite contributions in the form of expert comprehensive reviews or research articles dealing with liquid argon detectors from a wide perspective.
Contributions are expected to address, but are not limited to, the following areas:
- Scintillation light (production, propagation, doping, wavelength shifter, etc.)
- Ionization and charge transport (drift, space charge effects, etc.)
- Charge readout technologies and concepts (wires, light, etc.)
- Detector concepts (single phase, dual phase, etc.)
- Field cage designs and cathode HV concepts
- Purification technologies
- Fluid dynamics
- Electronics for cryogenic detectors and DAQ
- Calibration systems and purity monitors
- Event reconstruction and detector performance/capabilities
- Cryostat and cryogenics technologies
- Experiments: past, present, and future
Dr. Thorsten Lux
Dr. Francesco Pietropaolo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- liquid argon detectors
- cryogenics
- instrumentation
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