Shielding of the GERDA experiment against external gamma background

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

Volumn 606, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 790-794

  Barabanov, I ^a   Bezrukov, L ^a   Demidova, E ^b   Gurentsov, V ^a   Kianovsky, S ^a   Knopfle K T ^c   Kornouhkov, V ^a   Schwingenheuer, B ^a   Vasenko, A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cryogenic liquid; Double beta decay; Ge detector; Low background

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL CALCULATION; DOUBLE BETA DECAY; GAMMA BACKGROUND; GAMMA RADIATION; GE DETECTOR; GERMANIUM DETECTOR; HIGH PURITY; LOW BACKGROUND; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION;

CRYOGENIC LIQUIDS; CRYOGENICS; DETECTORS; GAMMA RAYS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADIATION PROTECTION;

GERMANIUM;

EID: 67649435579     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2009.04.006     Document Type: Article

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