A new Micromegas line for the CAST experiment

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

Volumn 581, Issue 1-2 SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 217-220

  Andriamonje, Samuel ^a   Aune, Stephan ^a   Bräuninger, Heinrich ^b   Dafni, Theopisti ^a,c   Dogan, Berkol ^e   Fanourakis, George ^f   Ferrer Ribas, Esther ^a   Galan, Javier ^g   Geralis, Theodoros ^f   Giganon, Arnaud ^a   Giomataris, Ioannis ^a   Irastorza, Igor G ^g   Kousouris, Konstantinos ^f   Morales, Julio ^g   Philippe Mols, Jean ^f   Papaevangelou, Thomas ^h   Pivovaroff, Mike ^d   Riallot, Marc ^a   Ruz, Jaime ^g   Soufli, Regina ^d   Zachariadou, Katherina ^f   more..

^a CEA SACLAY   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e DOGUS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^f INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^g Instituto de Fisica Nuclear y Altas Energias   (Spain)

^h CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Axion; CAST experiment; Dark matter; Micromegas; X ray detector

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; SHIELDING; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAYS;

CERN AXION SOLAR TELESCOPE (CAST); MICROMEGAS; SOLAR AXIONS; X-RAY DETECTOR;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EID: 35348899436     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2007.07.081     Document Type: Article

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