Quartz fibers as active elements in detectors for particle physics

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 2955-2972

  Akchurin, Nural ^a   Wigmans, Richard ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; HEAVY IONS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); IONIZATION; QUARTZ; RADIATION HARDENING; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

QUARTZ FIBERS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0038787556     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1570945     Document Type: Review

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