@article{081b793de4854ad3a9b7951278593396,
title = "A novel use of light guides and wavelength shifting plates for the detection of scintillation photons in large liquid argon detectors",
abstract = "Scintillation light generated as charged particles traverse large liquid argon detectors adds valuable information to studies of weakly-interacting particles. This paper uses both laboratory measurements and cosmic ray data from the Blanche dewar facility at Fermilab to characterize the efficiency of the photon detector technology developed at Indiana University for the single phase far detector of DUNE. The efficiency of this technology was found to be 0.48% at the readout end when the detector components were characterized with laboratory measurements. A second determination of the efficiency using cosmic ray tracks is in reasonable agreement with the laboratory determination. The agreement of these two efficiency determinations supports the result that minimum ionizing muons generate Nphot=40,000 photons/MeV as they cross the LAr volume.",
keywords = "Liquid argon scintillation, Neutrino detectors, Photon detection",
author = "B. Howard and S. Mufson and D. Whittington and B. Adams and B. Baugh and Jordan, {J. R.} and J. Karty and Macias, {C. T.} and A. Pla-Dalmau",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported in part by the Trustees of Indiana University , the DOE Office of High Energy Physics through grant DE-SC0010120 to Indiana University, and grant #240296 from Broookhaven National Laboratory to Indiana University. The authors wish to thank the many people who helped make this work possible. At IU: M. Gebhard, M. Lang, B. Martin, J. Musser, P. Smith, J. Urheim. At Fermilab: R. Davis, C. Escobar, B. Miner, E. Niner, S. Pordes, B. Rebel, F. Schwartz, M. Zuckerbrot. At ANL: J. Anderson, G. Drake, A. Kreps, M. Oberling. At Colorado State: N. Buchanan, J. Jablonski, D. Warner. At Eljen Technology: C. Hurlbut. Funding Information: This manuscript has been authored by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 Elsevier B.V.",
year = "2018",
month = nov,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1016/j.nima.2018.06.050",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "907",
pages = "9--21",
journal = "Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment",
issn = "0168-9002",
publisher = "Elsevier",
}