Absorption of scintillation light in a 100 l liquid xenon γ-ray detector and expected detector performance

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

Volumn 545, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 753-764

  Baldini, A ^a   Bemporad, C ^a   Cei, F ^a   Doke, T ^b   Grassi, M ^a   Grebenuk, A A ^c   Grigoriev, D N ^c   Haruyama, T ^d   Kasami, K ^d   Kikuchi, J ^b   Maki, A ^d   Mashimo, T ^e   Mihara, S ^e   Mitsuhashi, T ^e   Mori, T ^e   Nicolo D ^a   Nishiguchi, H ^e   Ootani, W ^e   Ozone, K ^e   Papa, A ^a   Pazzi, R ^a   Ritt, S ^f   Sawada, R ^e   Sergiampietri, F ^a   Signorelli, G ^a   Suzuki, S ^b   Terasawa, K ^b   Yamashita, M ^b   Yamashita, S ^e   Yoshimura, T ^b   Yuri, Yu ^c   more..

^a SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c BUDKER INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^d HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Calorimeter; Liquid xenon; Purification; Scintillation detector

Indexed keywords

CALORIMETERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMIC RAYS; GAMMA RAYS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADIATION DETECTORS; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; XENON;

COMPTON BACKSCATTERING; ELASTIC SCATTERING; ENERGY RESOLUTION; LIQUID XENON;

LIGHT ABSORPTION;

EID: 19944419797     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2005.02.029     Document Type: Article

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