Cosmogenic activation of germanium and its reduction for low background experiments

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 251, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 115-120

  Barabanov, I ^a   Belogurov, S ^a,b   Bezrukov, L ^a   Denisov, A ^a   Kornoukhov, V ^a,b   Sobolevsky, N ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Double beta decay; Excitation functions; Spallation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL GROWTH; DECAY (ORGANIC); DETECTORS; PURIFICATION; SPALLING;

DOUBLE BETA DECAY; EXCITATION FUNCTIONS; SPALLATION;

COSMIC RAYS;

EID: 33748335689     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2006.05.011     Document Type: Article

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