Liquid xenon scintillation calorimetry and Xe optical properties

IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 547-555

  Baldini, A ^a   Bemporad, C ^a   Cei, F ^a   Doke, T ^d   Grassi, M ^a   Haruyama, T ^b   Mihara, S ^c   Mori, T ^c   Nicolo D ^a   Nishiguchi, H ^c   Ootani, W ^c   Ozone, K ^c   Papa, A ^a   Pazzi, R ^a   Sawada, R ^c   Sergiampietri, F ^a   Signorelli, G ^a   Suzuki, S ^d   Terasawa, K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARTICLE AND NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Liquid xenon; VUV light

Indexed keywords

IONIZING RADIATION; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCINTILLATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VACUUM; XENON;

IONIZING PARTICLES; LIQUID XENON; SCINTILLATION CALORIMETER; VUV LIGHT;

CALORIMETRY;

EID: 33746596240     PISSN: 10709878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDEI.2006.1657967     Document Type: Conference Paper

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