Production of a 62 PBq 51Cr low energy neutrino source for GALLEX

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 378, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 233-250

  Cribier, M ^a   Gosset, L ^a   Lamare, P ^a   Languillat, J C ^a   Perrin, P ^a   Renard, M ^a   Rich, J ^a   Soirat, J P ^a   Spiro, M ^a   Stolarczyk, T ^a   Tao, C ^a,k   Vignaud, D ^a   Bevilacqua, A ^b   Caperan, F ^b   Dupont, G ^b,l   Gorry, J ^a   Hampel, W ^c   Heusser, G ^c   Kirsten, T ^c   Pernicka, E ^c   Schlosser, C ^c   Sann, M ^c   V Ammon, R ^d   Henrich, E ^d   Altmann, M ^e   Moßbauer R ^e   Bellotti, E ^f   Cattadori, C ^f   Fiorini, E ^f   Latorre, S ^f   Balata, M ^g   Franciotti, D ^g   Lembo, L ^g   Bacci, C ^h,m   Belli, P ^h   Boger, J ⁱ   Hahn, R L ⁱ   Hartmann, F X ^g,i   Chu, Y Y ⁱ   Prusakov, V N ^j   Tikhomirov, A V ^j   more..

^a DIF   (France)

^b CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^g LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL GRAN SASSO   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

ⁱ BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^j KURCHATOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^k l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

^l CEA SACLAY   (France)

^m ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALORIMETRY; CHARGED PARTICLES; CHROMIUM; ELECTROLYSIS; ELECTROLYTIC CELLS; ELECTRONS; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETERS; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; NEUTRON SOURCES; REACTOR CORES;

ACTIVATED CHROMIUM; CHROMIUM METAL TUBES; ELECTRON CAPTURE DECAY; LOW NEUTRINO SOURCE; NEUTRON ACTIVATION; RADIOCHEMICAL SOLAR NEUTRINO EXPERIMENT;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES;

EID: 0030213924     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0168-9002(96)00464-0     Document Type: Article

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