IAEA-MEL's underground counting laboratory - The design and main characteristics

Radioactivity in the Environment

Volumn 8, Issue C, 2006, Pages 538-553

  Povinec, P P ^a   Comanducci, J F ^a   Levy Palomo, I ^a   Avaullee, F ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Monaco)

Author keywords

Anti Compton spectrometer; Background; Coincidence anticoincidence spectrometer; Gamma ray spectrometry; HPGe detector; NaI(Tl) detector; Plastic scintillation detector; Si beta ray detector; Underground laboratory

Indexed keywords

EID: 44349126895     PISSN: 15694860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1569-4860(05)08043-5     Document Type: Review

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