New Micromegas detectors in the CAST experiment

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

Volumn 604, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 15-19

  Aune, S ^b   Brauninger H ^e   Dafni, T ^a   Fanourakis, G ^d   Ferrer Ribas, E ^b   Galan Lacarra J ^a   Geralis, T ^d   Giomataris, I ^b   Iguaz, F ^a   Irastorza, I G ^a   Kousouris, K ^d   Morales, J ^a   Mols, J P ^d   Papaevangelou, T ^b   Pivovaroff, M ^c   Ruz, J ^a   Soufli, R ^c   Tomas A ^a   Zachariadou, K ^d  

^a Laboratorio de Física Nuclear y Astropartículas   (Spain)

^b CEA SACLAY   (France)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Greece)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

CAST; Detector; Gaseous detector; Micromegas; Photon; X ray

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND LEVEL; CAST; CERN AXION SOLAR TELESCOPES; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; GASEOUS DETECTOR; LOW BACKGROUND; LOW-RADIOACTIVITY; MICROMEGAS; MICROMEGAS DETECTOR; PULSE SHAPES; SECOND PHASE; TIME INFORMATION; TIME PROJECTION CHAMBERS;

EXPERIMENTS; PHOTONS; SOLAR ENERGY; TELESCOPES;

GAS DETECTORS;

EID: 66049120560     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2009.01.210     Document Type: Article

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