Signal modeling of high-purity Ge detectors with a small read-out electrode and application to neutrinoless double beta decay search in Ge-76

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Agostini, M ^a,b,c,d   Ur, C A ^b   Budajs D ^c   Bellotti, E ^e   Brugnera, R ^b,d   Cattadori, C M ^e   Di Vacri, A ^f   Garfagnini, A ^b,d   Pandola, L ^f   Schonert S ^a,c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b SEZIONE DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^e INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^f LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL GRAN SASSO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Detector modelling and simulations I (interaction of radiation with matter, interaction of photons with matter, interaction of hadrons with matter, etc); Gamma detectors (scintillators, CZT, HPG, HgI etc); Particle identification methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953672248     PISSN: 17480221     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/6/03/P03005     Document Type: Article

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