Gator: A low-background counting facility at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Baudis, L ^a   Ferella, D ^a   Askin, A ^a   Angle, J ^b   Aprile, E ^c   Bruch, T ^a   Kish, A ^a   Laubenstein, M ^d   Manalaysay, A ^a   Marrodan Undagoitia T ^a   Schumann, M ^a  

^a PHYSIK INSTITUT DER UNIVERSITÄT ZÜRICH   (Switzerland)

^b University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL GRAN SASSO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gamma detectors (scintillators, CZT, HPG, HgI etc); Spectrometers

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052012934     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/6/08/P08010     Document Type: Article

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