Study of the internal background of CsI(Tℓ) crystal detectors for dark matter search

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

Volumn 500, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 337-344

  Kim, T Y ^a   Cho, I S ^b   Choi, D H ^b   Choi, J M ^a   Hahn, I S ^c   Hwang, M J ^d   Jang, H K ^a   Jain, R K ^a   Kang, U K ^e   Kim, H J ^d   Kim, J H ^c,g   Kim, S C ^a   Kim, S K ^a   Kim, S Y ^a   Kim, Y D ^e   Kwon, Y J ^d   Lee, H S ^a   Lee, J H ^d   Lee, M H ^f   Lee, S E ^a   Noh, S H ^b   Park, H ^a   Park, I H ^c   Seo, E S ^f   Won, E ^a   Won, H S ^a   Yang, H Y ^a   Yang, M S ^a   Yu, I ^b   more..

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^c Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^d Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^e Sejong University   (South Korea)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

CsI(T ) crystal; Dark matter; Decay; WIMP

Indexed keywords

CESIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADIOISOTOPES;

DARK MATTER SEARCH;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EID: 0037821756     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(03)00346-2     Document Type: Article

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