Liquid Argon Instrumentation and Monitoring in LEGEND-200

LEGEND is the next-generation experiment searching for the neutrinoless double beta decay in Ge-76. The first stage, LEGEND-200, takes over the cryogenic infrastructure of GERDA at LNGS: an instrumented water tank surrounding a 64 m(3) liquid argon cryostat. Around 200 kg of Ge detectors will be deployed in the cryostat, with the liquid argon acting as cooling medium, high-purity passive shielding and secondary detection medium. For the latter purpose, a liquid argon instrumentation is developed, based on the system used in GERDA Phase II. Wavelength shifting fibers coated with TPB are arranged in two concentric barrels. Both ends are read out by SiPM arrays. A wavelength shifting reflector surrounds the array in order to enhance the light collection far from the array. The LLAMA is installed in the cryostat to permanently monitor the optical parameters and to provide in-situ inputs for modeling purposes. The design of all parts of the LEGEND-200 LAr instrumentation is presented. An overview of the geometry, operation principle, and off-line data analysis of the LLAMA is shown.

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LEGEND is the next-generation experiment searching for neutrinoless double beta decay in Ge-76. The first stage, LEGEND-200, inherits the cryogenic infrastructure of GERDA at LNGS, deploying liquid argon for cooling and shielding purposes, developing liquid argon instrumentation, and installing LLAMA for monitoring optical parameters and providing inputs for modeling.