Abstract:
The properties of working gases in gas detectors, such as the average ionization energy, Fano factor, and drift velocity, have a significant impact on the preliminary simulation, parameter design, and trajectory reconstruction of the detectors. SeF
6, as the target working gas in domestic neutrinoless double beta decay experiments, has unknown parameters that need to be investigated. To study the relevant parameters of this gas, a measurement scheme was designed and the accuracy and reliability of the experimental plan were tested using Ar+10%CH
4(P10) as the working gas. In the experiment, the average ionization energy of P10 was measured using a grid ionization chamber with an \alpha source, yielding a value of 27.46±0.05 eV, and the Fano factor was determined to be 0.181±0.001 when the energy resolution reached 0.91% after subtracting noise through calibration electronics. Additionally, the drift velocity was measured using a 266 nm laser and a time projection chamber, and the results were consistent with the Garfield++ simulation results. The experimental results indicate the feasibility of the measurement scheme and demonstrate high reliability of the measurement results. This provides a solid foundation for further research on the properties of SeF
6.