Relative measurement and extrapolation of the scintillation quenching factor of $$\alpha $$-particles in liquid argon using DEAP-3600 data
Abstract The knowledge of scintillation quenching of $$\alpha $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mi>α</mml:mi> </mml:math> -particles plays a paramount role in understanding $$\alpha $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mi>α</mml:mi> </mml:math> -induced backgrounds and improving the sensitivity of liquid argon-based direct detection of dark matter experiments. We performed a relative measurement of scintillation quenching in the MeV energy region using radioactive isotopes ( $$^{222}$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mmultiscripts> <mml:mrow/> <mml:mrow/> <mml:mn>222</mml:mn> </mml:mmultiscripts> </mml:math> Rn, $$^{218}$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mmultiscripts> <mml:mrow/> <mml:mrow/> <mml:mn>218</mml:mn> </mml:mmultiscripts> </mml:math> Po and $$^{214}$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mmultiscripts> <mml:mrow/> <mml:mrow/> <mml:mn>214</mml:mn> </mml:mmultiscripts> </mml:math> Po isotopes) present in trace amounts in the DEAP-3600 detector and quantified the uncertainty of extrapolating the quenching factor to the low-energy region.
Authors
- A. B. McDonald
- C. Rethmeier
- D. Gahan
- N. Levashko
- S. Viel
- J. Monroe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8649-5486)
- M. Laí (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2388-9581)
- A. Erlandson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7165-1121)
- Leszek Roszkowski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2346-0512)
- E. Ellingwood
- M. Lissia
- K. Graham
- Beomjun Park (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7822-9919)
- V. Pesudo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8753-6013)
- A. Moharana
- M. G. Boulay
- F. Retière
- M. Cárdenas-Montes
- Apexa Maru
- F. Rad
- K. Sobotkiewich
- M. Dunford
- G. Kaur (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3808-2315)
- James Mason (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3783-5509)
- B. Cai
- L. Doria (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7800-6328)
- W. Bonivento (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6764-6787)
- J. Sosiak
- M. Alpízar-Venegas
- A. Murray
- C. Mielnichuk
- J. Hucker
- M. Hamstra
- L. Luzzi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9754-4535)
- Mehran Yazdi
- D. J. Auty
- J. Walding (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9186-9793)
- M. G. Perry (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4877-0867)
- V. Shalamova
- R. Santorelli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0012-2644)
- J. Soukup (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5039-3872)
- P. Amaudruz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1810-3190)
- B. Jigmeddorj (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-5442-0897)
- P. García Abia
- T. Sonley
- B. Vyas
- E. Vázquez-Jáuregui (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4195-0961)
- C. E. Bina
- D. Goeldi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5231-9919)
- B. Beltran
- D. Papi
- C. Ng
- P. Skensved
- T. McElroy
- S. Choudhary (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8298-6779)
- P. DelGobbo
- T. Smirnova (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9918-5321)
- A. Giménez-Alcázar
- S. Seth (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0819-575X)
- P. Giampa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3867-2799)
- R. Crampton
- G. Dolganov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6394-9219)
- A. Ilyasov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6850-2996)
- Sanjoy Kumar Pal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4245-9325)
- M. Walczak
- S. Haskins
- M. Kuźniak (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9632-9115)
- T. R. Pollmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1249-6213)
- D. Gallacher
- P. Gorel
- P. C. F. Di Stefano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9709-6875)
- R. Stainforth (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7759-368X)
- A. L. Hallin
- James Anstey (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6366-8647)
- S. S. Farahani
- B. Lehnert (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6705-7138)
- T. Hugues (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4895-8897)
- G. Oliviéro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3950-6370)
- L. Mirasola (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-0174-1377)
- G. Fiorillo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4769-0920)
- M. Stringer
- J. Tang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2926-2560)
- S. Westerdale (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8824-6205)
- A. Kemp
- S. Garg (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1055-7983)
- Jia Hu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2618-2079)
- Michał Olszewski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0588-5122)
- N. Fatemighomi
- I. Machulin
- F. La Zia
- M. Ward
- S. J. Daugherty
- B. T. Cleveland
- F. A. Duncan
- C. Jillings
- J. F. Bueno
- M. Batygov
- S. Langrock
- R. Ford
- F. G. Schuckman
- P. Adhikari (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-3123-4897)
- J. B. McLaughlin
- R. Wormington
Institutions
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US)
- University of Alberta (CA)
- University of Cagliari (IT)
- Royal Holloway University of London (GB)
- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (DE)
- Queen's University (CA)
- Kurchatov Institute (RU)
- University of California System (US)
- National Institute for Subatomic Physics (NL)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli (IT)
- National Centre for Social research (GR)
- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (ES)
- Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CA)
- Laurentian University (CA)
- Technical University of Munich (DE)
- Carleton University (CA)
- University of Naples Federico II (IT)
- National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (RU)
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (MX)
- Polish Academy of Sciences (PL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The European Physical Journal C
- Published
- 2025-01-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13518-7
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.87
Funders
- Fundación Marcos Moshinsky
- Comunidad de Madrid
- Ministry of Advanced Education, Government of Alberta
- University of Alberta
- Leverhulme Trust
- Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej
- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología
- Queen's University
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
- Russian Science Foundation
- Canada First Research Excellence Fund
- Alliance de recherche numérique du Canada
- South East Physics Network
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Science and Technology Facilities Council
- Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
- Dirección General de Asuntos del Personal Académico, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- European Regional Development Fund
- Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation