Background reduction and sensitivity for germanium double beta decay experiments

Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 28, Issue 4-5, 2007, Pages 435-447

  Gomez H ^a   Cebrian S ^a   Morales, J ^a   Villar, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Double beta decay; Germanium detectors; Granularity; Pulse shape analysis; Segmentation; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAYS; DETECTORS; PULSE SHAPING CIRCUITS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHIELDING;

DOUBLE BETA DECAY; GERMANIUM DETECTORS; GRANULARITY; PULSE SHAPE ANALYSIS; SEGMENTATION;

GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 36049009031     PISSN: 09276505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2007.08.008     Document Type: Article

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