Micromegas detectors in the CAST experiment

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Galan, J ^a   Aune, S ^b   Carmona, J ^a   Dafni, T ^a   Fanourakis, G ^c   Ferrer Ribas, E ^d   Geralis, T ^c   Giomataris, I ^b   Gomez H ^a   Iguaz, J ^a   Irastorza, G ^a   Kousouris, K ^b   Luzon G ^a   Morales, J ^a   Mols, P ^c   Papaevangelou, T ^b   Rodriguez A ^a   Ruz, J ^a   Tomas A ^a   Vafeiadis, T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b CEA SACLAY   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Greece)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Micropattern gaseous detectors (MSGC, GEM, THGEM, RETHGEM, MICROMEGAS, InGrid, etc); Pattern recognition, cluster finding, calibration and fitting methods; X ray detectors

Indexed keywords

CERN AXION SOLAR TELESCOPES; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; FITTING METHOD; GASEOUS DETECTORS; LOW-RADIOACTIVITY; MICROMEGAS DETECTOR; TIME INFORMATION; X-RAY DETECTOR;

DETECTORS; EXPERIMENTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

RADIOACTIVITY;

EID: 77950282583     PISSN: 17480221     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/5/01/P01009     Document Type: Article

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