Performance of an aerogel threshold particle identification detector readout by hybrid photon detectors

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 44, Issue 4 PART 2, 1997, Pages 1621-1629

  Boutigny, D ^a   De Bonis, I ^b   Favier, J ^c   Karyotakis, Y ^d   Lafaye, R ^e   Foucher, M ^f   Jawahery, H ^a   Borsato, E ^b   Dalcorso, F ^c   Iacovella, F ^d   Morandin, M ^e   Posocco, M ^f   Stroili, R ^a   Torassa, E ^b   Voci, C ^c   Oyang, J ^d   Buzykaev, A ^d   Ganzhur, S ^e   Kravchenko, E ^f   Onuchin, A ^a,b   Shamov, A ^e,f   Telnov, V ^a,b   Buccheri, A ^c,d   Ferroni, F ^a,b   Mazzoni, M A ^e   Morganti, S ^f   Piredda, G ^b   Santacesaria, R ^a   more..

^a CENTRE DE CALCUL DE L INSTITUT NATIONAL DE PHYSIQUE NUCLEAIRE ET DE PHYSIQUE DES PARTICULES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e BUDKER INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^f SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINEAR ACCELERATORS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PHOTONS; READOUT SYSTEMS;

HYBRID PHOTON DETECTORS (HPD); PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION DETECTORS;

PARTICLE DETECTORS;

EID: 0031209344     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.604124     Document Type: Article

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