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The XENON Experiment underground. Left the water tank with a poster showing what’s inside. Right the three-story service building.
The heart of the project: The XENON1T Time Projection Chamber TPC after assembly in a clean room.
Assembly and Installation of the XENON1T Time Projection Chamber:
The time projection chamber is the heart of XENON1T, find more details about the installation here
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- Insertion of fiber optic cables through the PTFE panels of the field cage.
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- Top PMT array and reflector panels as seen from below the field cage.
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- Field cage from above after installation of gate and anode electrodes.
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- TPC (high-voltage feedthrough side) mounted to the top dome inside the water tank.
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- The cryostat hangs from the support structure within the water tank.
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- Experts construct the top PMT array.
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- The top PMT array with all of the electric cables.
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- The bottom PMT array.
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- The electric field cage is assembled.
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- The electric field cage and the bottom PMT array meet for the first time.
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- The TPC is complete.
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- The TPC is secured within the cryostat.
A documentary on the construction of XENON1T:
Trailer:
Short 18 minute version:
Full 70 minute version:
More videos:
The XENON1T Story
People from XENON1T
The big pieces of XENON 1T: Watch the construction of XENON 1t’s massive infrastructure, including the water tank, support structure, cable pipe and muon veto photomultiplier tubes
The Central Detector: Watch the installation of the Time Projection Chamber, which is the heart of the XENON1T detector. Find more details here.
Cryosystem: The cryostat will work to keep the liquid xenon inside XENON1T at a temperature of almost -100°C. Once the cryostat is sealed, as you see in this video, it is kept closed in order to prevent any contamination.
Distillation and ATTA Lab: We use a distillation tower in order to keep the liquid xenon clean and free of any sources of contamination, particularly due to the radioisotope Kr85. Watch the construction and learn more about how this system works!
ReStoX: Learn more about how we maintain the purity of the liquid xenon during runs and how we recover and recycle our liquid xenon.
Working with XENON1T: Having a particle collision inside the time projection chamber is just the beginning. Learn about what happens after we see a signal, including data acquisition, Monte Carlo modeling, calibration and computing.