scholarly journals Pulse-shape discrimination and energy resolution of a liquid-argon scintillator with xenon doping

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (06) ◽  
pp. P06013-P06013 ◽  
Author(s):  
C G Wahl ◽  
E P Bernard ◽  
W H Lippincott ◽  
J A Nikkel ◽  
Y Shin ◽  
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pp. 011-011 ◽  
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J. Calvo ◽  
C. Cantini ◽  
P. Crivelli ◽  
M. Daniel ◽  
S. Di Luise ◽  
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2012 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 1113-1121 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Acciarri ◽  
N. Canci ◽  
F. Cavanna ◽  
P. Kryczynski ◽  
L. Pandola ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Adhikari ◽  
R. Ajaj ◽  
M. Alpízar-Venegas ◽  
P.-A. Amaudruz ◽  
D. J. Auty ◽  
...  

AbstractThe DEAP-3600 detector searches for the scintillation signal from dark matter particles scattering on a 3.3 tonne liquid argon target. The largest background comes from $$^{39}\text{ Ar }$$ 39 Ar beta decays and is suppressed using pulse-shape discrimination (PSD). We use two types of PSD estimator: the prompt-fraction, which considers the fraction of the scintillation signal in a narrow and a wide time window around the event peak, and the log-likelihood-ratio, which compares the observed photon arrival times to a signal and a background model. We furthermore use two algorithms to determine the number of photons detected at a given time: (1) simply dividing the charge of each PMT pulse by the mean single-photoelectron charge, and (2) a likelihood analysis that considers the probability to detect a certain number of photons at a given time, based on a model for the scintillation pulse shape and for afterpulsing in the light detectors. The prompt-fraction performs approximately as well as the log-likelihood-ratio PSD algorithm if the photon detection times are not biased by detector effects. We explain this result using a model for the information carried by scintillation photons as a function of the time when they are detected.


1981 ◽  
Vol 179 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Matsushita ◽  
Wm.C. McHarris ◽  
R.B. Firestone ◽  
J. Kasagi ◽  
W.H. Kelly

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