The STACEE ground-based gamma-ray detector

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2977-2985

  Gingrich, D M ^a,b   Boone, L M ^c,d   Bramel, D ^e   Carson, J ^f   Covault, C E ^g   Fortin, P ^h   Hanna, D S ^h   Hinton, J A ^i,j   Jarvis, A ^f   Kildea, J ^h   Lindner, T ^h   Mueller, C ^h   Mukherjee, R ^e   Ong, R A ^f   Ragan, K ^h   Scalzo, R A ^i,k   Theoret C G ^h,l   Williams, D A ^c   Zweerink, J A ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b TRIUMF   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

^d 931 College Mall   (United States)

^e Program on US Russia Relations at Columbia s Harriman Institute   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^j MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^k LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^l Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Biologie   (France)

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Author keywords

Cherenkov detectors; Coincidence detection; Cosmic rays; Delay circuit; Gamma ray astronomy detectors; Triggering

Indexed keywords

CERENKOV COUNTERS; DELAY CIRCUITS; GAMMA RAYS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SOLAR ENERGY;

GAMMA-RAY DETECTORS; TRIGGERING;

PARTICLE DETECTORS;

EID: 33144462749     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.855705     Document Type: Conference Paper

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