The CHORUS scintillating fiber tracker and opto-electronic readout system

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

Volumn 412, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 19-37

  Annis, P ^a   Aoki, S ^b   Brooijmans, G ^c   Brunner, J ^d   Dupraz, J ^d   Dupont, J ^d   Fabre, J P ^d   Favart, D ^c   Flegel, W ^d   Frekers, D ^e   Gregoire G ^c   Gruwe M ^a,d   Herin, J ^c   Hoepfner, K ^f,j   Kobayashi, M ^g   Konijn, J ^h   Kozaki, T ^g   Lamonte, P ^a   Lemaitre, V ^c,j   Lendermann, P ^f   Macina, D ^d,k   Meijer Drees, R ^d,l   Michel, L ^c   Mommaert, C ^a,d   Nakamura, K ⁱ   Nakamura, M ^g   Nakano, T ^g   Nappey, P ^d   Niwa, K ^g   Niu, E ^d   Panman, J ^d   Pintus, R ^d   Riccardi, F ^d   Reynaud, S ^d   Rondeshagen, D ^e   Sato, O ^g   Stefanini, G ^d   Van Beek, G ^a   Vander Donckt, M ^a   Vilain, P ^a   Weinheimer, C ^d,m   Wilquet, G ^a   Winter, K ^f   Wong, H T ^d   more..

^a Inter Univ Inst High Energies   (Belgium)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^f HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h NIKHEF   (Netherlands)

ⁱ Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^j DESY   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^l UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^m JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

CHORUS; Neutrino oscillations; Optoelectronic; Particle tracking; Scintillating fibres

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PARTICLE BEAM TRACKING; PHOSPHORS; READOUT SYSTEMS;

MUONS; NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS; SCINTILLATING FIBER TRACKERS;

PARTICLE DETECTORS;

EID: 0032120306     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(98)00276-9     Document Type: Article

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