Pulse shape discrimination studies with a Broad-Energy Germanium detector for signal identification and background suppression in the GERDA double beta decay experiment

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Budjáš, Dušan ^a   Heider, Marik Barnabé ^a   Chkvorets, Oleg ^a,c   Khanbekov, Nikita ^a,b   Schönert, Stefan ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

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

^c LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gamma detectors (scintillators, CZT, HPG, HgI etc); Particle identification methods

Indexed keywords

COINCIDENCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRICAL FIELD DISTRIBUTIONS; GAMMA DETECTORS; GAMMA RAY INTERACTIONS; NEUTRINOLESS DOUBLE-BETA DECAYS; PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PULSE SHAPE DISCRIMINATION; SURVIVAL PROBABILITIES;

DETECTORS; GERMANIUM;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 70449371830     PISSN: 17480221     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/4/10/P10007     Document Type: Article

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