Thick GEM versus thin GEM in two-phase argon avalanche detectors

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Bondar, A ^a   Buzulutskov, A ^a   Grebenuk, A ^a   Pavlyuchenko, D ^a   Tikhonov, Y ^a   Breskin, A ^b  

^a BUDKER INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Charge transport and multiplication in liquid media; Cryogenic detectors; Gaseous detectors; Liquid detectors

Indexed keywords

CRYOGENIC DETECTORS; DETECTION THRESHOLD; GASEOUS DETECTORS; LIQUID DETECTORS; LIQUID MEDIA; PRIMARY ELECTRONS; PULSE-SHAPE ANALYSIS; STABLE PERFORMANCE;

COHERENT SCATTERING; LIQUIDS; VAPORS;

DETECTORS;

EID: 62649143178     PISSN: 17480221     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/3/07/P07001     Document Type: Article

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