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X-ARAPUCA Efficiency Test for Different Dichroic Filters

Grant number: 23/05143-6
Support Opportunities:Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
Start date: July 01, 2023
End date: June 30, 2024
Field of knowledge:Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Elementary Particle Physics and Fields
Principal Investigator:Ettore Segreto
Grantee:Lucca Longhitano Pagliuso
Host Institution: Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin (IFGW). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The DUNE, Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, will be a Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) experiment, in which a neutrino beam produced in Batavia, Illinois, will be detected in the city of Lead, South Dakota, 1300 km away. Aimed at the comprehension of long-baseline neutrino oscillation, two far detectors will be installed during the path. The photon detection system will consist of a device called X-ARAPUCA, capable of trapping the light in its inside. A dichroic filter coated with p-Terphenyl inside plays a vital role during the trapping process, in which its efficiency defines the detection optimization. The main goal of this project is the study, through the electrical acquisition of the X-ARAPUCA comparatively to an APD, the dichroic filter that, together with the X-ARAPUCA device, offers the highest photon detection efficiency to the device. All tests will be handled inside a monochromator device, in which it will be possible to study the efficiency of a filter around the liquid argon scintillation light wavelength, of 127nm.

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Scientific publications
(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)
PAGLIUSO, L. L.; MENDONCA, A. P. A.; SANTOS, R. F.; PILON, T. B.; MACHADO, A. A.; SEGRETO, E.. Impact of the surface density of paraTerphenyl films on the Vacuum Ultra Violet light conversion efficiency. Journal of Instrumentation, v. 20, n. 5, p. 11-pg., . (21/13757-9, 23/05143-6, 23/01367-7, 19/11557-2)