Testing of high voltage surge protection devices for use in liquid argon TPC detectors
In this paper we demonstrate the capability of high voltage varistors and gas discharge tube arrestors for use as surge protection devices in liquid argon time projection chamber detectors. The insulating and clamping behavior of each type of device is characterized in air (room temperature), and li...
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| author | Asaadi, J. Conrad, Janet Gollapinni, S. Jones, Benjamin James Poyner Jostlein, H. St. John, J. M. Strauss, T. Wolbers, S. Zennamo, J. |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Asaadi, J. Conrad, Janet Gollapinni, S. Jones, Benjamin James Poyner Jostlein, H. St. John, J. M. Strauss, T. Wolbers, S. Zennamo, J. |
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| description | In this paper we demonstrate the capability of high voltage varistors and gas discharge tube arrestors for use as surge protection devices in liquid argon time projection chamber detectors. The insulating and clamping behavior of each type of device is characterized in air (room temperature), and liquid argon (90 K), and their robustness under high voltage and high energy surges in cryogenic conditions is verified. The protection of vulnerable components in liquid argon during a 150 kV high voltage discharge is also demonstrated. Each device is tested for argon contamination and light emission effects, and both are constrained to levels where no significant impact upon liquid argon time projection chamber functionality is expected. Both devices investigated are shown to be suitable for HV surge protection applications in cryogenic detectors. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/980432022-10-01T04:32:39Z Testing of high voltage surge protection devices for use in liquid argon TPC detectors Asaadi, J. Conrad, Janet Gollapinni, S. Jones, Benjamin James Poyner Jostlein, H. St. John, J. M. Strauss, T. Wolbers, S. Zennamo, J. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Conrad, Janet Jones, Benjamin James Poyner In this paper we demonstrate the capability of high voltage varistors and gas discharge tube arrestors for use as surge protection devices in liquid argon time projection chamber detectors. The insulating and clamping behavior of each type of device is characterized in air (room temperature), and liquid argon (90 K), and their robustness under high voltage and high energy surges in cryogenic conditions is verified. The protection of vulnerable components in liquid argon during a 150 kV high voltage discharge is also demonstrated. Each device is tested for argon contamination and light emission effects, and both are constrained to levels where no significant impact upon liquid argon time projection chamber functionality is expected. Both devices investigated are shown to be suitable for HV surge protection applications in cryogenic detectors. National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant PHY-1205175) 2015-08-06T12:19:46Z 2015-08-06T12:19:46Z 2014-09 2014-06 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1748-0221 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98043 Asaadi, J, J M Conrad, S Gollapinni, B J P Jones, H Jostlein, J M St John, T Strauss, S Wolbers, and J Zennamo. “Testing of High Voltage Surge Protection Devices for Use in Liquid Argon TPC Detectors.” Journal of Instrumentation 9, no. 09 (September 1, 2014): P09002–P09002. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6393-0438 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6243-1453 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/9/09/p09002 Journal of Instrumentation Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf IOP Publishing arXiv |
| spellingShingle | Asaadi, J. Conrad, Janet Gollapinni, S. Jones, Benjamin James Poyner Jostlein, H. St. John, J. M. Strauss, T. Wolbers, S. Zennamo, J. Testing of high voltage surge protection devices for use in liquid argon TPC detectors |
| title | Testing of high voltage surge protection devices for use in liquid argon TPC detectors |
| title_full | Testing of high voltage surge protection devices for use in liquid argon TPC detectors |
| title_fullStr | Testing of high voltage surge protection devices for use in liquid argon TPC detectors |
| title_full_unstemmed | Testing of high voltage surge protection devices for use in liquid argon TPC detectors |
| title_short | Testing of high voltage surge protection devices for use in liquid argon TPC detectors |
| title_sort | testing of high voltage surge protection devices for use in liquid argon tpc detectors |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98043 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6393-0438 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6243-1453 |
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