Remark on the studies of the muon-induced neutron background in the liquid scintillator detectors

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

Volumn 615, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 220-222

  Zbiri, Karim ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmogenics; Geant4; Muon; Neutron; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COSMOGENICS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; LIQUID SCINTILLATOR; NEUTRON BACKGROUND; NEUTRON YIELDS;

LIQUIDS; LUMINESCENCE; SCINTILLATION;

NEUTRONS;

EID: 77649271735     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2010.01.035     Document Type: Article

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