Development and performance of microbulk micromegas detectors

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Andriamonje, S ^a   Attie, D ^b   Berthoumieux, E ^b   Calviani, M ^a   Colas, P ^b   Dafni, T ^c   Fanourakis, G ^d   Ferrer Ribas, E ^b   Galan, J ^c   Geralis, T ^d   Giganon, A ^b   Giomataris, I ^b   Gris, A ^a   Guerrero Sanchez, C ^a   Gunsing, F ^b   Iguaz, J ^c   Irastorza, I ^c   De Oliveira, R ^a   Papaevangelou, T ^b   Ruz, J ^a   Savvidis, I ^e   Teixera, A ^a   Toms, A ^c   more..

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b CEA SACLAY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Greece)

^e ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Gaseous detectors; Micropattern gaseous detectors (MSGC, GEM, THGEM, RETHGEM, MICROMEGAS, InGrid, etc); Neutron detectors (cold, thermal, fast neutrons); X ray detectors

Indexed keywords

ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; FAST NEUTRONS; GASEOUS DETECTORS; MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES; MICROMEGAS DETECTOR; NEUTRINOLESS DOUBLE-BETA DECAYS; X-RAY DETECTOR; X-RAY SOURCES;

EXPERIMENTS; FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES; GAS DETECTORS; X RAY APPARATUS;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 76449120768     PISSN: 17480221     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/5/02/P02001     Document Type: Article

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