Multipurpose High Sensitivity Radiation Detector: Terradex

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

Volumn 574, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 479-492

  Alpat, Behcet ^a   Aisa, Damiano ^a   Bizzarri, Marco ^a   Blasko, Sandor ^a   Esposito, Gennaro ^a   Farnesini, Lucio ^a   Fiori, Emmanuel ^a   Papi, Andrea ^a   Postolache, Vasile ^a   Renzi, Francesca ^a   Ionica, Romeo ^b   Manolescu, Florentina ^c   Ozkorucuklu, Suat ^d   Denizli, Haluk ^e   Tapan, Ilhan ^f   Ercan Pilicer, ^f   Egidi, Felice ^g   Moretti, Cesare ^g   Dicola, Luca ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^c INSTITUTE OF SPACE SCIENCES   (Romania)

^d SULEYMAN DEMIREL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e ABANT IZZET BAYSAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^f ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^g SITE Technology   (Italy)

Author keywords

Contamination; Environment; Radiation; Radon; Self triggering; Silicon detector

Indexed keywords

BETA RAY SPECTROMETERS; CALIBRATION; DISINTEGRATION; RADON; SAMPLING; SILICON DETECTORS;

MULTIPURPOSE HIGH SENSITIVITY; PROGRAMMABLE MULTIPARAMETRIC TOOL; SAMPLING PROTOCOLS;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EID: 34247496786     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2006.12.051     Document Type: Article

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