The EXO-200 detector, part II: Auxiliary systems

Ackerman N, Albert J, Auger M, Auty DJ, Badhrees I, Barbeau PS, Bartoszek L, Baussan E, Belov V, Benitez-Medina C, Bhatta T, Breidenbach M, Brunner T, Cao GF, Cen WR, Chambers C, Cleveland B, Conley R, Cook S, Coon M, Craddock W, Craycraft A, Cree W, Daniels T, Darroch L, Daugherty SJ, Daughhetee J, Davis CG, Davis J, Delaquis S, Der Mesrobian-Kabakian A, Devoe R, Didberidze T, Dilling J, Dobi A, Dolgolenko AG, Dolinski MJ, Dunford M, Echevers J, Espic L, Fairbank W, Fairbank D, Farine J, Feldmeier W, Feyzbakhsh S, Fierlinger P, Fouts K, Franco D, Freytag D, Fudenberg D, Gautam P, Giroux G, Gornea R, Graham K, Gratta G, Hagemann C, Hall C, Hall K, Haller G, Hansen EV, Hargrove C, Herbst R, Herrin S, Hodgson J, Hughes M, Iverson A, Jamil A, Jessiman C, Jewell MJ, Johnson A, Johnson TN, Johnston S, Karelin A, Kaufman LJ, Killick R, Koffas T, Kravitz S, Krücken R, Kuchenkov A, Kumar KS, Lan Y, Larson A, Leonard DS, Leonard F, Leport F, Li GS, Li S, Li Z, Licciardi C, Lin YH, Mackay D, Maclellan R, Marino M, Martin JM, Martin Y, McElroy T, McFarlane K, Michel T, Mong B, Moore DC, Murray K, Neilson R, Nelson R, Njoya O, Nusair O, O'Sullivan K, Odian A, Ostrovskiy I, Ouellet C, Piepke A, Pocar A, Prescott CY, Pushkin K, Retiere F, Rivas A, Robinson AL, Rollin E, Rowson PC, Rozo MP, Runge J, Russell JJ, Schmidt S, Schubert A, Sinclair D, Skarpaas K, Slutsky S, Smith E, Soma AK, Stekhanov V, Strickland V, Swift M, Tarka M, Todd J, Tolba T, Tosi D, Totev TI, Tsang R, Twelker K, Veenstra B, Veeraraghavan V, Vuilleumier JL, Vuilleumier JM, Wagenpfeil M, Waite A, Walton J, Walton T, Wamba K, Watkins J, Weber M, Wen LJ, Wichoski U, Wittgen M, Wodin J, Wood J, Wrede G, Wu SX, Xia Q, Yang L, Yen YR, Zeldovich OY, Ziegler T (2022)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2022

Journal

Book Volume: 17

Article Number: P02015

Journal Issue: 2

DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/17/02/P02015

Abstract

The EXO-200 experiment searched for neutrinoless double-beta decay of 136Xe with a single-phase liquid xenon detector. It used an active mass of 110 kg of 80.6%-enriched liquid xenon in an ultra-low background time projection chamber with ionization and scintillation detection and readout. This paper describes the design and performance of the various support systems necessary for detector operation, including cryogenics, xenon handling, and controls. Novel features of the system were driven by the need to protect the thin-walled detector chamber containing the liquid xenon, to achieve high chemical purity of the Xe, and to maintain thermal uniformity across the detector.

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Stanford National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) United States (USA) (US) Colorado State University United States (USA) (US) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States (USA) (US) Indiana University United States (USA) (US) Stanford University United States (USA) (US) Carleton University Canada (CA) University of Maryland United States (USA) (US) Drexel University United States (USA) (US) Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP) /Институт теоретической и экспериментальной физики Russian Federation (RU) University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) United States (USA) (US) Laurentian University Canada (CA) Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) / 中国科学院高能物理研究所 China (CN) Triumf Canada (CA) Technische Universität München (TUM) Germany (DE) HEIG-VD Switzerland (CH) Universität Bern Switzerland (CH) Yale University United States (USA) (US) Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory United States (USA) (US) The University of Alabama United States (USA) (US) University of California, San Diego United States (USA) (US) University of South Dakota United States (USA) (US) State University of New York at Albany (UNY Albany / UAlbany) United States (USA) (US) University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) United States (USA) (US) McGill University Canada (CA) Swiss Welding Institute (SWI) Switzerland (CH) Institute for Basic Science Korea, Republic of (KR)

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APA:

Ackerman, N., Albert, J., Auger, M., Auty, D.J., Badhrees, I., Barbeau, P.S.,... Ziegler, T. (2022). The EXO-200 detector, part II: Auxiliary systems. Journal of Instrumentation, 17(2). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/17/02/P02015

MLA:

Ackerman, N., et al. "The EXO-200 detector, part II: Auxiliary systems." Journal of Instrumentation 17.2 (2022).

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