{"paper":{"title":"Development of wavelength shifter coated reflectors for the ArDM argon dark matter detector","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"physics.ins-det","authors_text":"A.Badertscher, A.Bueno, A.Dell'Antone, A.Gendotti, A.Marchionni, A.Melgarejo, A.Rubbia, C.Amsler, C.Lazzaro, C.Regenfus, D.Lussi, E.J.Daw, E.Rondio, F.Resnati, G.Natterer, H.Cabrera, J.Lozano, J.Rochet, J.Ulbricht, K.Mavrokoridis, L.Epprecht, L.Kaufmann, L.Knecht, L.Romero, M.C.Carmona-Benitez, M.Daniel, M. de Prado, M.Laffranchi, M.Robinson, N.J.C.Spooner, P.K.Lightfoot, P.Mijakowski, P.Otyugova, P.Przewlocki, S.Horikawa, S.Navas-Concha, The ArDM Collaboration: V. Boccone, T.Strauss, T.Viant, U.Degunda","submitted_at":"2009-04-01T23:27:47Z","abstract_excerpt":"To optimise the design of the light readout in the ArDM 1-ton liquid argon dark matter detector, a range of reflector and WLS coating combinations were investigated in several small setups, where argon scintillation light was generated by radioactive sources in gas at normal temperature and pressure and shifted into the blue region by tetraphenyl butadiene (TPB). Various thicknesses of TPB were deposited by spraying and vacuum evaporation onto specular 3M{\\small\\texttrademark}-foil and diffuse Tetratex{\\small\\textregistered} (TTX) substrates. Light yields of each reflector and TPB coating comb"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"0904.0246","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}