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Triplet lifetime in gaseous argon

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MiniCLEAN is a single-phase liquid argon dark matter experiment. During the initial cooling phase, impurities within the cold gas (\( < 140\) K) were monitored by measuring the scintillation light triplet lifetime, and ultimately a triplet lifetime of \( 3.480 \pm 0.001 (stat.) \pm 0.064 (sys.)\) μs was obtained, indicating ultra-pure argon. This is the longest argon triplet time constant ever reported. The effect of quenching of separate components of the scintillation light is also investigated.

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  1. Bennington College, 05201, Bennington, VT, USA

    Amanda Bacon

  2. Department of Physics, Boston University, 02215, Boston, MA, USA

    Dan Gastler, Chris Kachulis, Edward Kearns & Steve Linden

  3. Department of Physics, Brandeis University, 02453, Waltham, MA, USA

    Jui-Jen Wang

  4. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Christopher Benson, Brianna Grado-White, Christopher M. Jackson & Gabriel D. Orebi Gann

  5. Los Alamos National Laboratory, 87545, Los Alamos, NM, USA

    Michael Akashi-Ronquest, Jeff Griego, Frank Lopez, John Oertel, Keith Rielage & Stanley R. Seibert

  6. Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 02139, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Joseph A. Formaggio, Stephen Jaditz, Jocelyn Monroe & Kimberley Palladino

  7. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 99352, Richland, WA, USA

    Kolahal Bhattacharya, Andrew Hime, Christopher M. Jackson, Antonio Ledesma & Gabriel S. Ortega

  8. Department of Physics, Royal Holloway, University of London, TW20 0EX, Egham, UK

    Jocelyn Monroe

  9. SNOLAB Institute, P3Y 1N2, Lively, ON, Canada

    Kimberley Palladino

  10. Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Christopher Benson, Brianna Grado-White, Christopher M. Jackson & Gabriel D. Orebi Gann

  11. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, 87131, Albuquerque, NM, USA

    Michael Gold & Jui-Jen Wang

  12. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina, 27599, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Michael Akashi-Ronquest, Thomas Caldwell & Sean MacMullin

  13. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, 19104, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Thomas Caldwell, Joshua R. Klein, Andrew Mastbaum & Stanley R. Seibert

  14. Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 53706, Madison, WI, USA

    Kimberley Palladino

  15. Department of Physics, Yale University, 06511, New Haven, CT, USA

    James Nikkel

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Akashi-Ronquest, M., Bacon, A., Benson, C. et al. Triplet lifetime in gaseous argon. Eur. Phys. J. A 55, 176 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2019-12867-2

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