Nab: Measurement principles, apparatus and uncertainties

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

Volumn 611, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 211-215

  Počanić, Dinko ^a   Alarcon, R ^b   Alonzi, L P ^a   Baessler S ^a   Balascuta, S ^b   Bowman, J D ^h   Bychkov, M A ^a   Byrne, J ^j   Calarco, J R ^f   Cianciolo, V ^h   Crawford, C ^c   Frlez E ^a   Gericke, M T ^d   Greene, G L ^k   Grzywacz, R K ^k   Gudkov, V ⁱ   Hersman, F W ^f   Klein, A ^e   Martin, J ^l   Page, S A ^d   Palladino, A ^a   Penttila S I ^h   Rykaczewski, K P ^h   Wilburn, W S ^e   Young, A R ^g   Young, G R ^h   more..

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^e LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

^g NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

more..

Author keywords

Correlations; Neutron beta decay; Precision measurement

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY LEVEL; BEAM LINES; CORRELATION PARAMETERS; DETECTOR DESIGN; FUNDAMENTAL NEUTRON PHYSICS; INDEPENDENT MEASUREMENT; INTERFERENCE TERMS; MEASUREMENT PRINCIPLE; NEUTRON BETA DECAY; NEUTRON DECAYS; PRECISE MEASUREMENTS; PRECISION MEASUREMENT; VECTOR COUPLING; WEAK COUPLINGS;

NEUTRONS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 71549135839     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2009.07.065     Document Type: Article

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