On the low-temperature performances of THGEM and THGEM/G-APD multipliers in gaseous and two-phase Xe1

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Bondar, A ^a   Buzulutskov, A ^a   Grebenuk, A ^a   Shemyakina, E ^a   Sokolov, A ^a   Akimov, D ^b   Alexandrov, I ^b   Breskin, A ^c  

^a BUDKER INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Charge transport and multiplication in liquid media; Noble liquid detectors (scintillation, ionization two phase); Photon detectors for UV, visible and IR photons (solid state) (PIN diodes, APDs, Si PMTs, G APDs, CCDs, EBCCDs, EMCCDs etc); Scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, gas and liquid scintillators)

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051502967     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/6/07/P07008     Document Type: Article

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