The use of Geant4 for simulations of a plastic β-detector and its application to efficiency calibration

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

Volumn 594, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 266-272

  Golovko, V V ^a   Iacob, V E ^a   Hardy, J C ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geant4 efficiency calculation for plastic detector; Monte Carlo simulations; Precise branching ratio measurements; The Electroweak Standard Model; Unitarity of the Cabibbo Kobayashi Maskawa matrix

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; PLASTICS; STANDARDS; TESTING;

BRANCHING RATIO; CABIBBO-KOBAYASHI-MASKAWA MATRIX; DETECTOR EFFICIENCIES; DETECTOR RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; EFFICIENCY CALIBRATION; ENERGY DEPENDENCE; HPGE DETECTOR EFFICIENCY; HPGE DETECTORS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; MONTE-CARLO CALCULATIONS; PLASTIC SCINTILLATORS; STANDARD MODEL; THE ELECTROWEAK STANDARD MODEL; UNITARITY; UNITARITY OF THE CABIBBO-KOBAYASHI-MASKAWA MATRIX;

DETECTORS;

EID: 49149112599     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2008.06.025     Document Type: Article

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