The performance of the barrel GRID at the SLD; Long-term operational experience

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 648-656

  Abe, K ^a   Ashford, V ^b   Aston, D ^c   Bienz, T ^b   Baird, K ^d   Bird, F ^b   Cavalli Sforza, M ^e   Coller, J ^f   Coyle, P ^g   Coyne, D ^h   Dasu, S ⁱ   Dunwoodie, W ^c   Dima, M ^j   Hallewell, G ^g   Hasegawa, Y ^a   Iwasaki, Y ^a   Kalelkar, M ^d   Kawahara, H ^b   Leith, D W G S ^c   Lu, A ^k   Meadows, B ^l   Muller, D ^c   McCulloch, M ^c   McShurley, D ^c   Nagamine, T ^a   Narita, S ^a   Oxoby, G ^c   Pavel, T J ^c   Plano, R ^d   Ratcliff, B ^c   Reif, R ^c   Rensing, P ^b   Schneider, M ^h   Schultz, D ^c   Shapiro, S ^c   Shaw, H ^b   Simopoulos, C ^b   Staengle, H ^j   Stamer, P ^d   Stiles, P ^c   Toge, N ^m   Va'vra, J ^c   Weber, T ^c   Whitaker, J S ^f   Wilson, R J ^j   Williams, D ^h   Williams, S H ^c   Willocq, S ^c   Yellin, S ^k   Yuta, H ^a   more..

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Private Industry   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^f BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^j Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^m HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; CERENKOV COUNTERS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRONS; PERFORMANCE; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TRANSPARENCY;

BARREL CRID DETECTOR; CHERENKOV ANGLE RESOLUTION; CHERENKOV QUALITY FACTOR; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRON LIFETIME; LIQUID RADIATOR TRANSPARENCY; SINGLE ELECTRON DETECTOR;

PARTICLE DETECTORS;

EID: 0032096004     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.682601     Document Type: Article

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