High-speed analysis of nuclear emulsion films with the use of dry objective lenses

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Kreslo, I ^a   Cozzi, M ^c   Ereditato, A ^a   Hess, M ^a   Knuesel, J ^a   Laktineh, I ^b   Messina, M ^a   Moser, U ^a   Pistillo, C ^a   Pretzl, K ^a   Scotto Lavina, L ^a   Sirri, G ^c   Schutz, H U ^a   Tioukov, V ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b CENTRE DE CALCUL DE L INSTITUT NATIONAL DE PHYSIQUE NUCLEAIRE ET DE PHYSIQUE DES PARTICULES   (France)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hybrid detectors; Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics; Particle detectors; Particle tracking detectors

Indexed keywords

ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS; AUTOMATIC SCANNING SYSTEM; HYBRID DETECTORS; INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES; NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS; NUCLEAR EMULSION FILMS; OIL IMMERSION OBJECTIVE; PARTICLE TRACKING;

EMULSIFICATION; EXPERIMENTS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; PARTICLE DETECTORS; WATER POLLUTION;

PHOTOGRAPHIC EMULSIONS;

EID: 62649151836     PISSN: 17480221     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/3/04/P04006     Document Type: Article

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