@article{072c4b4a384b4d02b545291745e01145,
title = "A liquid xenon ionization chamber in an all-fluoropolymer vessel",
abstract = "A novel technique has been developed to build vessels for liquid xenon ionization detectors entirely out of an ultra-clean fluoropolymer. One such detector was operated inside a welded, He leak tight, all-fluoropolymer chamber. The measured energy resolution for 570 keV gamma rays is σ / E = 5.1 \% at a drift field of 1.5 kV/cm, in line with the best values obtained for ionization only detectors run in LXe using conventional, metal vessels.",
keywords = "Double beta decay, EXO, Fluoropolymer, Low background, PTFE, Xenon",
author = "F. LePort and A. Pocar and L. Bartoszek and R. DeVoe and P. Fierlinger and B. Flatt and G. Gratta and M. Green and T. Koffas and \{Montero D{\'i}ez\}, M. and R. Neilson and K. O'Sullivan and S. Waldman and J. Wodin and D. Woisard and E. Baussan and M. Breidenbach and R. Conley and W. Fairbank and J. Farine and C. Hall and K. Hall and D. Hallman and C. Hargrove and J. Hodgson and S. Jeng and Leonard, \{D. S.\} and D. Mackay and Y. Martin and A. Odian and L. Ounalli and A. Piepke and Prescott, \{C. Y.\} and Rowson, \{P. C.\} and K. Skarpaas and D. Schenker and D. Sinclair and V. Stekhanov and V. Strickland and C. Virtue and Vuilleumier, \{J. L.\} and Vuilleumier, \{J. M.\} and K. Wamba and P. Weber",
note = "Funding Information: We are very grateful to S. Ebnesajjad, S. Libert, D.N. Washburn, and the DuPont Company for many invaluable discussions, for providing samples and data on fluoropolymers, and for supplying TE-6472 material free of charge to the experiment. We would like to thank Applied Plastics Technology, Inc. for their PTFE compression molding, welding development efforts, continuing manufacturing support, and for the enthusiasm shown toward the project. We acknowledge K. Kingsford and the Advanced Plastic Division of the Saint-Gobain Company for providing samples and performing mechanical tests on many of them. We thank R. Kirby of SLAC for performing the surface analyses of samples welded in fluoropolymer chambers. We are particularly grateful to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) for its enthusiastic and enduring support. This work has been supported, in part, by US DoE Grant DE-FG03-90ER40569-A019 and US DoE Grant DE-FG29-02AL68086. APT's vessel fabrication and welding process development has been supported by US DoE-SBIR Grant DE-FG02-04ER83903. ",
year = "2007",
month = aug,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1016/j.nima.2007.05.259",
language = "English",
volume = "578",
pages = "409--420",
journal = "Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment",
issn = "0168-9002",
publisher = "Elsevier B.V.",
number = "2",
}