Towards a new liquid argon imaging chamber for the MODULAr project

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Angeli, D ^a   Baibussinov, B ^b   Baldo Ceolin, M ^b,c   Battistoni, G ^d   Benetti, P ^e,f   Borio, A ^e   Calligarich, E ^f   Cambiaghi, M ^e,f   Cavanna, F ^g,h   Centro, S ^b,c   Cieslik, K ^b   Cocco, G ⁱ   Dolfini, R ^e,f   Gigli Berzolari, A ^e,f   Farnese, C ^b,c   Fava, A ^b,c   Ferrari, A ^k   Fiorillo, G ^i,j   Gibin, D ^b,c   Guglielmi, A ^b   Mannocchi, G ^l,m   Menegolli, A ^e,f   Meng, G ^b   Montanari, C ^f   Muraro, S ^d   Palamara, O ^h   Periale, L ^l   Picchi, P ^m   Pietropaolo, F ^b   Rappoldi, A ^f   Raselli, L ^f   Rossella, M ^f   Rubbia, C ^h,k   Sala, P ^d   Satta, G ^m   Varanini, F ^b,c   Ventura, S ^b   Vignoli, C ^f   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b SEZIONE DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^f INFN SEZIONE DI PAVIA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^h LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL GRAN SASSO   (Italy)

ⁱ INFN SEZIONE DI NAPOLI   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^k CERN   (Switzerland)

^l INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^m INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI FRASCATI   (Italy)

more..

Author keywords

Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics; Liquid detectors; Particle tracking detectors; Time projection chambers

Indexed keywords

ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS; COSMIC NEUTRINOS; LIQUID DETECTORS; MODULAR DETECTORS; NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS; PARTICLE TRACKING; SENSITIVE VOLUME; TIME PROJECTION CHAMBERS;

DETECTORS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; LIQUEFIED GASES;

PARTICLE DETECTORS;

EID: 71049163392     PISSN: 17480221     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/4/02/P02003     Document Type: Article

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