A liquid xenon ionization chamber in an all-fluoropolymer vessel

EXO Collaboration; LePort, F.; Pocar, A.; Bartoszek, L.; DeVoe, R.; Fierlinger, P.; Flatt, B.; Gratta, G.; Green, M.; Koffas, T.; Diez, M. Montero; Neilson, R.; O'Sullivan, K.; Waldman, S.; Wodin, J.; Woisard, D.; Baussan, E.; Breidenbach, M.; Conley, R.; Fairbank Jr., W.; Farine, J.; Hall, C.; Hall, K.; Hallman, D.; Hargrove, C.; Hodgson, J.; Jeng, S.; Leonard, D. S.; Mackay, D.; Martin, Y.; Odian, A.; Ounalli, L.; Piepke, A.; Prescott, C. Y.; Rowson, P. C.; Skarpaas, K.; Schenker, D.; Sinclair, D.; Stekhanov, V.; Strickland, V.; Virtue, C.; Vuilleumier, J. -L.; Vuilleumier, J. -M.; Wamba, K.; Weber, P.

A liquid xenon ionization chamber in an all-fluoropolymer vessel

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A novel technique has been developed to build vessels for liquid xenon ionization detectors entirely out of ultra-clean fluoropolymer. We describe the advantages in terms of low radioactivity contamination, provide some details of the construction techniques, and show the energy resolution achieved with a prototype all-fluoropolymer ionization detector.
12 pages, 9 figures