A low background facility inside the LVD detector at Gran Sasso

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Arneodo, F ^a   Fulgione, W ^b,c  

^a LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL GRAN SASSO   (Italy)

^b Istituto di Fisica Dello Spazio Interplanetario INAF   (Italy)

^c SEZIONE DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dark matter detectors; Neutrino detectors

Indexed keywords

EID: 65649149023     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/02/028     Document Type: Article

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