Hardware performance of a scanning system for high speed analysis of nuclear emulsions

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

Volumn 568, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 578-587

  Arrabito, L ^a   Barbuto, E ^b   Bozza, C ^b   Buontempo, S ^c   Consiglio, L ^d   Coppola, D ^c   Cozzi, M ^d   Damet, J ^e   D'Ambrosio, N ^c   De Lellis, G ^c   De Serio, M ^f   Di Capua, F ^c   Di Ferdinando, D ^d   Di Marco, D ^b,g   Esposito, L S ^g   Giacomelli, G ^d   Grella, G ^b   Hauger, M ^h   Juget, F ^h   Kreslo, I ^e   Giorgini, M ^d   Ieva, M ^f   Laktineh, I ^a   Manai, K ^a   Mandrioli, G ^d   Marotta, A ^c   Manzoor, S ^d   Migliozzi, P ^c   Monacelli, P ^b,g   Muciaccia, M T ^f   Pastore, A ^f   Patrizii, L ^d   Pistillo, C ^c   Pozzato, M ^d   Royole Degieux, P ^a   Romano, G ^b   Rosa, G ^b   Savvinov, N ^e   Schembri, A ^b   Scotto Lavina, L ^c   Simone, S ^f   Sioli, M ^d   Sirignano, C ^b   Sirri, G ^d   Sorrentino, G ^c   Strolin, P ^c   Tioukov, V ^c   Waelchli, T ^e   more..

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA   (Italy)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI NAPOLI   (Italy)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^f INFN SEZIONE DI BARI   (Italy)

^g LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL GRAN SASSO   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Automatic scanning; Digital imaging; Elementary particles; Microscopy; Neutrino oscillations; Nuclear emulsions

Indexed keywords

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EMULSIONS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROSCOPES; OSCILLATIONS;

AUTOMATIC SCANNING; DIGITAL IMAGING; NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS; NUCLEAR EMULSIONS;

SCANNING;

EID: 33750820936     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2006.06.072     Document Type: Article

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