Design and Operation of a Flash Lamp for Vacuum Ultraviolet Light Production
Noble liquids, notably argon and xenon, are utilised as both detector media and as the detector target for dark matter and neutrino physics experiments. When the noble liquid is excited by particles, it scintillates vacuum ultraviolet light, which sensors then detect. A major focus of the detector development community is on producing precision light sensors for noble liquid detectors. We introduce a flash lamp to test VUV-sensitive light sensors with light at wavelengths observed using noble liquid detectors. This paper discusses the design and presents results from a flash lamp prototype operated at room temperature.
Authors
- L. Calivers (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8522-7604)
- S. Tufanli
- Jonas Bürgi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-0781-0707)
- J. Kunzmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-6755-3552)
- M. Weber (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2770-9031)
- Silas Bosco
- Johannes Furrer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-0580-4341)
- Saba Parsa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4746-290X)
- Camilla Tognina
- Dominik Wermelinger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-2425-5627)
- Richard Diurba (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8228-6377)
- Sascha Rivera (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6851-6228)
- Nicolas Sallin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-6091-368X)
Institutions
- University of Bern (CH)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Instruments
- Published
- 2026-05-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/instruments10020029
- Primary Topic
- Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung