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A two-phase xenon detector with gas amplification and electroluminescent signal detection

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An optical technique for detecting ionization electrons produced during ionization of the liquid phase has been experimentally tested in two-phase (liquid-gas) xenon. The effects of gas and electroluminescent amplifications at the wire anode are simultaneously used for detection. This method allows construction of a supersensitive detector of small ionization signals—down to those corresponding to the detection of single electrons.

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  1. Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, ul. Bol’shaya Cheremushkinskaya 25, Moscow, 117259, Russia

    D. Yu. Akimov, A. A. Burenkov, Yu. L. Grishkin, A. G. Kovalenko, V. N. Lebedenko & V. N. Stekhanov

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Original Russian Text © D.Yu. Akimov, A.A. Burenkov, Yu.L. Grishkin, A.G. Kovalenko, V.N. Lebedenko, V.N. Stekhanov, 2008, published in Pribory i Tekhnika Eksperimenta, 2008, No. 3, pp. 46–50.

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Akimov, D.Y., Burenkov, A.A., Grishkin, Y.L. et al. A two-phase xenon detector with gas amplification and electroluminescent signal detection. Instrum Exp Tech 51, 366–370 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S002044120803007X

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