Summary and outlook of the international workshop on aging phenomena in gaseous detectors (DESY, Hamburg, october 2001)

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49 I, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1609-1621

  Titov, M ^a,b   Hohlmann, M ^c   Padilla, C ^d   Tesch, N ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b DESY   (Germany)

^c FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Electrode etching; Materials; Matter discharge; Plasma chemistry; Polymerization

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; ELECTRODES; ETCHING; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PLASMAS; POLYMERIZATION;

ELECTRODE ETCHING;

GAS DETECTORS;

EID: 0036703226     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.801666     Document Type: Article

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