A radioactive point-source lattice for calibrating and monitoring the liquid xenon calorimeter of the MEG experiment

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

Volumn 565, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 589-598

  Baldini, A ^a   Bemporad, C ^a   Cei, F ^a   Dussoni, S ^b   Gatti, F ^b   Grassi, M ^a   Haruyama, T ^c   Hisamatsu, Y ^d   Iwamoto, T ^d   Mihara, S ^d   Mori, T ^d   Nicolo D ^a   Nishiguchi, H ^d   Ootani, W ^d   Papa, A ^a   Pazzi, R ^a   Sawada, R ^d   Sergiampietri, F ^a   Signorelli, G ^a   Valle, R ^b   Yamada, S ^d   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calibration; Liquid xenon calorimeter; MEG experiment; Monitoring; Radioactive sources

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CRYOGENICS; GAS DETECTORS; MONITORING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RADIOACTIVATION ANALYSIS; SCINTILLATION; XENON;

LIQUID XENON CALORIMETERS; MEG EXPERIMENTS; RADIOACTIVE SOURCES;

CRYSTAL LATTICES;

EID: 33748062681     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2006.06.055     Document Type: Article

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