Characterization of a broad energy germanium detector and application to neutrinoless double beta decay search in 76Ge

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Agostini, M ^a,b,c   Bellotti, E ^d   Brugnera, R ^a,b   Cattadori, M ^d   D'Andragora, A ^e   Di Vacri, A ^e   Garfagnini, A ^a,b   Laubenstein, M ^e   Pandola, L ^e   Ur, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b SEZIONE DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO   (Italy)

^e LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL GRAN SASSO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gamma detectors (scintillators, CZT, HPG, HgI etc); Particle identification methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955794819     PISSN: 17480221     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/6/04/P04005     Document Type: Article

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