@article{f319b75e46f24ae0894b97e4e71832cd,
title = "Development of a method for liquid xenon purification using a cryogenic centrifugal pump",
abstract = "We are developing a new type of photon detector for an experiment to search for muons decaying into a positron and a gamma ray. In this experiment, the photon detector will utilize liquid xenon (Xe) as the scintillation material. Good transparency of the liquid Xe is required in order to gain the highest performance out of the detector. Impurities like water and oxygen must be removed efficiently for this purpose. We have developed a new purification system, dedicated to removing water from liquid Xe, by employing a cryogenic centrifugal pump and molecular sieves. The performance of the system is described in this article.",
keywords = "Centrifugal pump, Liquid xenon, Low-temperature fluid, Purification",
author = "S. Mihara and T. Haruyama and T. Iwamoto and Y. Uchiyama and W. Ootani and K. Kasami and R. Sawada and K. Terasawa and T. Doke and H. Natori and H. Nishiguchi and A. Maki and T. Mori and S. Yamada",
note = "Funding Information: We wish to thank many people for their suggestions and support, especially Dr. Schinzel of CERN, who suggested that we use a cryogenic fluid pump at an early stage of our development. We appreciate valuable support of the cryogenic group in Paul Scherrer Institute. We thank collaborators of the MEG experiment and the cryogenics group in IPNS, KEK for indispensable support to perform our test. This work has been supported by a Grant-in aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. ",
year = "2006",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1016/j.cryogenics.2006.04.003",
language = "English",
volume = "46",
pages = "688--693",
journal = "Cryogenics",
issn = "0011-2275",
publisher = "Elsevier Limited",
number = "9",
}