Measurement of the specific activity of 39Ar in natural argon

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

Volumn 574, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 83-88

  Benetti, P ^a   Calaprice, F ^b   Calligarich, E ^a   Cambiaghi, M ^a   Carbonara, F ^c   Cavanna, F ^d   Cocco, A G ^c   Di Pompeo, F ^d   Ferrari, N ^e   Fiorillo, G ^c   Galbiati, C ^b   Grandi, L ^a   Mangano, G ^c   Montanari, C ^a   Pandola, L ^e   Rappoldi, A ^a   Raselli, G L ^a   Roncadelli, M ^a   Rossella, M ^a   Rubbia, C ^a   Santorelli, R ^c   Szelc, A M ^f   Vignoli, C ^a   Zhao, Y ^b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^e LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL GRAN SASSO   (Italy)

^f INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

39Ar specific activity; Cosmogenic activation; Low background experiments

Indexed keywords

DRIFT CHAMBERS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; PHASE BEHAVIOR; RADIATION DETECTORS;

COSMOGENIC ACTIVATIONS; LOW BACKGROUND EXPERIMENTS; NATURAL ARGON; SPECIFIC ACTIVITY;

ARGON;

EID: 33947616373     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2007.01.106     Document Type: Article

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