TY - JOUR
T1 - Dependence of polytetrafluoroethylene reflectance on thickness at visible and ultraviolet wavelengths in air
AU - Gutierrez, Rafael Maria
AU - The Next Collaboration, Next Collaboration
N1 - Funding Information:
The NEXT Collaboration acknowledges support from the following agencies and institutions: the European Research Council (ERC) under the Advanced Grant 339787-NEXT; the European Union’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 (2014–2020) under the Grant Agreements No. 674896, 690575 and 740055; the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad and the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades of Spain under grants FIS2014-53371-C04, RTI2018-095979, the Severo Ochoa Program grants SEV-2014-0398 and CEX2018-000867-S, and the María de Maeztu Program MDM-2016-0692; the Generalitat Valenciana under grants PROMETEO/2016/120 and SEJI/2017/011; the Portuguese FCT under project PTDC/FIS-NUC/2525/2014 and under projects UID/04559/2020 to fund the activities of LIBPhys-UC; the U.S. Department of Energy under contracts No. DE-AC02-06CH11357 (Argonne National Laboratory), DE-AC02-07CH11359 (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), DE-FG02-13ER42020 (Texas A&M) and DE-SC0019223 / DE-SC0019054 (University of Texas at Arlington); and the University of Texas at Arlington (USA). DGD acknowledges Ramon y Cajal program (Spain) under contract number RYC-2015-18820. JM-A acknowledges support from Fundación Bancaria “la Caixa” (ID 100010434), grant code LCF/BQ/PI19/11690012. Finally, we thank Brendon Bullard, Paolo Giromini and Neeraj Tata for helpful discussions and assistance with preliminary measurements.
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PY - 2020/11/23
Y1 - 2020/11/23
N2 - Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is an excellent diffuse reflector widely used in light collection systems for particle physics experiments. However, the reflectance of PTFE is a function of its thickness. In this work, we investigate this dependence in air for light of wavelengths 260 nm and 450 nm using two complementary methods. We find that PTFE reflectance for thicknesses from 5 mm to 10 mm ranges from 92.5% to 94.5% at 450 nm, and from 90.0% to 92.0% at 260 nm. We also see that the reflectance of PTFE of a given thickness can vary by as much as 2.7% within the same piece of material. Finally, we show that placing a specular reflector behind the PTFE can recover the loss of reflectance in the visible without introducing a specular component in the reflectance.
AB - Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is an excellent diffuse reflector widely used in light collection systems for particle physics experiments. However, the reflectance of PTFE is a function of its thickness. In this work, we investigate this dependence in air for light of wavelengths 260 nm and 450 nm using two complementary methods. We find that PTFE reflectance for thicknesses from 5 mm to 10 mm ranges from 92.5% to 94.5% at 450 nm, and from 90.0% to 92.0% at 260 nm. We also see that the reflectance of PTFE of a given thickness can vary by as much as 2.7% within the same piece of material. Finally, we show that placing a specular reflector behind the PTFE can recover the loss of reflectance in the visible without introducing a specular component in the reflectance.
KW - Detector design and construction technologies and materials
KW - Double-beta decay detectors
KW - Time projection Chambers (TPC)
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U2 - 10.1088/1748-0221/15/11/P11031
DO - 10.1088/1748-0221/15/11/P11031
M3 - Article
VL - 15
JO - JINST 14
JF - JINST 14
IS - 11
M1 - P11031
ER -