DIRC, the internally reflecting ring imaging cherenkov detector for babar

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 45, Issue 3 PART 1, 1998, Pages 657-664

  Adam, I ^a  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT REFLECTION; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOTONS; QUARTZ; REFRACTIVE INDEX; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

DETECTOR DESIGN; PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION; QUARTZ RADIATOR; RING IMAGING CHERENKOV DETECTOR;

CERENKOV COUNTERS;

EID: 0032097184     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.682602     Document Type: Article

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