1. Measurement of gas properties for the ion-TPC of N$\nu$DEx experiment
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Liang, Tianyu, Zhan, Meiqiang, Wang, Hulin, Wei, Xianglun, Zhang, Dongliang, Liu, Jun, Lu, Chengui, Hu, Qiang, Yang, Yichen, Gao, Chaosong, Xiao, Le, Sun, Xiangming, Liu, Feng, Zhao, Chengxin, Qiu, Hao, and Chen, Kai
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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors ,High Energy Physics - Experiment - Abstract
In the N$\nu$DEx collaboration, a high-pressure gas TPC is being developed to search for the neutrinoless double beta decay. The use of electronegative $\mathrm{^{82}SeF_{6}}$ gas mandates an ion-TPC. The reconstruction of $z$ coordinate is to be realized exploiting the feature of multiple species of charge carriers. As the initial stage of the development, we studied the properties of the $\mathrm{SF_{6}}$ gas, which is non-toxic and has similar molecular structure to $\mathrm{SeF_{6}}$. In the paper we present the measurement of drift velocities and mobilities of the majority and minority negative charge carriers found in $\mathrm{SF_{6}}$ at a pressure of 750 Torr, slightly higher than the local atmospheric pressure. The reduced fields range between 3.0 and 5.5 Td. It was performed using a laser beam to ionize the gas inside a small TPC, with a drift length of 3.7 cm. A customized charge sensitive amplifier was developed to read out the anode signals induced by the slowly drifting ions. The reconstruction of $z$ coordinate using the difference in the velocities of the two carriers was also demonstrated., Comment: 10 pages, 8 figures
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- 2024