Cosmogenic activation in germanium and copper for rare event searches

Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 316-329

  Cebrian S ^a   Gomez H ^a   Luzon G ^a   Morales, J ^a   Tomas A ^a   Villar, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Copper; Cosmogenic activation; Germanium; Radioactive background; Rare events

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAY SPECTRA; DARK MATTER PARTICLES; DIRECT DETECTION; DOUBLE BETA DECAY; EXCITATION FUNCTION; RARE EVENT;

COPPER; COSMIC RAYS; COSMOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; GERMANIUM; ISOTOPES; SEA LEVEL;

RADIOACTIVITY;

EID: 77955146874     PISSN: 09276505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2010.03.002     Document Type: Article

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