Radio Frequency and DC High Voltage Breakdown of High Pressure Helium, Argon, and Xenon

[EN] Motivated by the possibility of guiding daughter ions from double beta decay events to single-ion sensors for barium tagging, the NEXT collaboration is developing a program of R&D to test radio frequency (RF) carpets for ion transport in high pressure xenon gas. This would require carpe...

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Authors: Woodruff, K., Baeza-Rubio, J., Huerta, D., Jones, B. J. P., McDonald, A. D., Norman, L., Nygren, D. R., Adams, C., Arazi, L., Arnquist, I. J., Azevedo, C. D. R., Bailey, K., Benlloch-Rodriguez, J. M., Rodriguez-Samaniego, Javier, Álvarez-Puerta, Vicente|||0000-0001-6938-8259, Ballester Merelo, Francisco José|||0000-0002-2464-5116, Esteve Bosch, Raul|||0000-0002-1289-6938, Herrero Bosch, Vicente|||0000-0003-0860-2789, Mora Mas, Francisco José|||0000-0003-2281-9546, Toledo Alarcón, José Francisco|||0000-0002-9782-4510
Format: article
Publication Date:2020
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repository:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/162257
Online Access:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/162257
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Gaseous detectors
Gaseous imaging and tracking detectors
TECNOLOGIA ELECTRONICA
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Summary:[EN] Motivated by the possibility of guiding daughter ions from double beta decay events to single-ion sensors for barium tagging, the NEXT collaboration is developing a program of R&D to test radio frequency (RF) carpets for ion transport in high pressure xenon gas. This would require carpet functionality in regimes at higher pressures than have been previously reported, implying correspondingly larger electrode voltages than in existing systems. This mode of operation appears plausible for contemporary RF-carpet geometries due to the higher predicted breakdown strength of high pressure xenon relative to low pressure helium, the working medium in most existing RF carpet devices. In this paper we present the first measurements of the high voltage dielectric strength of xenon gas at high pressure and at the relevant RF frequencies for ion transport (in the 10MHz range), as well as new DC and RF measurements of the dielectric strengths of high pressure argon and helium gases at small gap sizes. We find breakdown voltages that are compatible with stable RF carpet operation given the gas, pressure, voltage, materials and geometry of interest.

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