Double beta decay experiments

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-18

  Barabash, Alexander S ^a  

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

Author keywords

Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics; Particle detectors; Particle tracking detectors

Indexed keywords

PARTICLE DETECTORS;

ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS; DOUBLE BETA DECAY; NEUTRINO MASS; PARTICLE TRACKING; PRESENT STATUS;

INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 33748921070     PISSN: 17480221     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/1/07/p07002     Document Type: Article

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