Feasibility of high-voltage systems for a very long drift in liquid argon TPCs

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Horikawa, S. [1 ]
Badertscher, A. [1 ]
Kaufmann, L. [1 ]
Laffranchi, M. [1 ]
Marchionni, A. [1 ]
Messina, M. [1 ]
Natterer, G. [1 ]
Rubbia, A. [1 ]
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[1] ETH, Inst Particle Phys, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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10.1088/1742-6596/308/1/012027
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TH7 [仪器、仪表];
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0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;
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Designs of high-voltage (HV) systems for creating a drift electric field in liquid argon TPCs are reviewed. In ongoing experiments systems capable of similar to 100 kV are realised for a drift field of 0.5-1 kV/cm over a length of up to 1.5 m. Two of them having different approaches are presented: the ICARUS-T600 detector having a system consisting of an external power supply, HV feedthroughs and resistive voltage degraders and the ArDM-1t detector having a cryogenic Greinacher HV multiplier inside the liquid argon volume. For a giant scale liquid argon TPC, a system providing 2 MV may be required to attain a drift length of similar to 20 m. Feasibility of such a system is evaluated by extrapolating the existing designs.
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