MaGe-a geant4-based monte carlo application framework for low-background Germanium experiments

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 58, Issue 3 PART 3, 2011, Pages 1212-1220

  Boswell, Melissa ^a   Chan, Yuen Dat ^b   Detwiler, Jason A ^b,c   Finnerty, Padraic ^d,e   Henning, Reyco ^d,e   Gehman, Victor M ^a,c   Johnson, Rob A ^c   Jordan, David V ^f   Kazkaz, Kareem ^c,g   Knapp, Markus ^h   Kröninger, Kevin ^i,j   Lenz, Daniel ^j   Leviner, Lance ^l   Liu, Jing ^j   Liu, Xiang ^j   MacMullin, Sean ^d,e   Marino, Michael G ^c   Mokhtarani, Akbar ^b   Pandola, Luciano ^k   Schubert, Alexis G ^c   Schubert, Jens ^j   Tomei, Claudia ^k,m   Volynets, Oleksandr ^j   more..

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e TRIANGLE UNIVERSITIES NUCLEAR LABORATORY   (United States)

^f PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^j MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^k LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL GRAN SASSO   (Italy)

^l NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA   (Italy)

more..

Author keywords

GEANT4; germanium detectors; low background; Monte Carlo; neutrinoless double beta decay; radiation detection

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE BETA DECAY; GEANT4; GERMANIUM DETECTORS; LOW BACKGROUND; MONTE CARLO; RADIATION DETECTION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EXPERIMENTS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; IONIZING RADIATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIOACTIVITY;

GERMANIUM;

EID: 79959453119     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2011.2144619     Document Type: Article

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