First observation of neutral bremsstrahlung electroluminescence in liquid argon

Autor:	Bondar, A., Buzulutskov, A., Frolov, E., Borisova, E., Nosov, V., Oleynikov, V., Sokolov, A.
Rok vydání:	2023
Předmět:	Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Experiment
Zdroj:	Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 241001 (2023)
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.241001
Popis:	A recent discovery of additional mechanism of electroluminescence (EL) in noble gases due to the neutral bremsstrahlung (NBrS) effect led to a prediction that NBrS EL should be present in noble liquids as well. A theoretical model of NBrS EL in noble liquids was developed accordingly in the frameworks of Cohen-Lekner and Atrazhev. In this work, we confirm this prediction: for the first time, visible-range EL has been observed in liquid argon at electric fields reaching 90~kV/cm, using Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) and Thick GEM (THGEM) structures. Absolute light yields of the EL were measured and found to be in excellent agreement with the theory, provided that the momentum-transfer cross section of electron scattering is used for calculation of NBrS cross section (instead of the energy-transfer one). Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.08084 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv