Measurement of 222Rn dissolved in water at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

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

Volumn 517, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 139-153

  Blevis, I ^a   Boger, J ^b   Bonvin, E ^c   Cleveland, B T ^d   Dai, X ^d   Dalnoki Veress, F ^a   Doucas, G ^d   Farine, J ^e   Fergani, H ^d   Grant, D ^a   Hahn, R L ^b   Hamer, A S ^c   Hargrove, C K ^a   Heron, H ^d   Jagam, P ^f   Jelley, N A ^d   Jillings, C ^c   Knox, A B ^d   Lee, H W ^c   Levine, I ^a,h   Liu, M ^c   Majerus, S ^d   McDonald, A ^c   McFarlane, K ^a   Mifflin, C ^a   Noble, A J ^c   Noel S ^c   Novikov, V M ^a   Rowley, J K ^b   Shatkay, M ^a   Simpson, J J ^f   Sinclair, D ^a   Sur, B ^g   Wang, J X ^f   Yeh, M ^b   Zhu, X ^c   more..

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^g ATOMIC ENERGY OF CANADA LIMITED   (Canada)

^h INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTH BEND   (United States)

Author keywords

Radioactivity assay; Radon; SNO; Solar neutrino

Indexed keywords

ACRYLICS; ALPHA PARTICLES; ASSAYS; ELECTRONS; GAMMA RAYS; GASES; GETTERS; HEAVY WATER; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; RADIOACTIVITY; RADON; SOLAR RADIATION; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

MUONS; RADIOACTIVITY ASSAY; SOLAR NEUTRINO;

NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION;

EID: 0348229217     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2003.10.103     Document Type: Article

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