Review of Liquid Argon Detector Technologies in the Neutrino Sector

TL;DR

This paper reviews Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) technologies used in neutrino detection, highlighting current experiments and exploring future research directions for improved particle reconstruction.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of existing LArTPC experiments and discusses emerging readout technologies with potential for widespread application.

Findings

Summary of single and dual phase LArTPC experiments

Discussion of new readout research avenues

Potential for wide-scale adoption of advanced LArTPC technologies

Abstract

Liquid Argon (LAr) is one of the most widely used scintillators in particle detection, due to its low cost, high availability and excellent scintillation properties. A large number of experiments in the neutrino sector are based around using LAr in one or more Time Projection Chambers (TPCs), leading to high resolution three-dimensional particle reconstruction. In this paper, we review and summarise a number of these Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) experiments, and briefly describe the specific technologies that they currently employ. This includes single phase LAr experiments (ICARUS T600, MicroBooNE, SBND, LArIAT, DUNE-SP, ProtoDUNE-SP, ArgonCube and Vertical Drift) and dual phase LAr experiments (DUNE-DP, WA105, ProtoDUNE-DP and ARIADNE). We also discuss some new avenues of research in the field of LArTPC readout, which show potential for wide-scale use in the near future.