Abstract

The water at the proposed site of the CHIPS water Cherenkov detector has been studied to measure its attenuation length as a function of filtering time. A 3.2 m vertical column was filled with the water from the Wentworth Pit, proposed site of the CHIPS deployment. Results consistent with attenuation lengths of up to 100m have been observed at this wavelength with filtration and UV sterilization alone.

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Title
Attenuation Length of light in the CHIPS-M Water Cherenkov Detector
Author
Amat, F 1 ; Bizouard, P 1 ; Bryant, J 2 ; Germani, S 2 ; Joyce, T 3 ; Kreisten, B 4 ; Nelson, J 4 ; Salazar, R 5 ; Thomas, J 2 ; Trokan-Tenorio, J 6 ; Vahle, P 4 ; Wade, R 7 ; Whitehead, L 2 ; Whitney, M 3 

 Aix Marseille University Saint-Jerome, 13013 Marseille, France 
 Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, UCL, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT, UK 
 School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA 
 Department of Physics, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, USA 
 Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA 
 Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA 
 Avenir Consulting, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK 
Publication year
2017
Publication date
Sep 2017
Publisher
IOP Publishing
ISSN
17426588
e-ISSN
17426596
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2574572057
Copyright
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