Characterization of the QUartz Photon Intensifying Detector (QUPID) for noble liquid detectors

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 654, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 184-195

  Teymourian, A ^a   Aharoni, D ^a   Baudis, L ^b   Beltrame, P ^a   Brown, E ^a   Cline, D ^a   Ferella, A D ^b   Fukasawa, A ^c   Lam, C W ^a   Lim, T ^a   Lung, K ^a   Meng, Y ^a   Muramatsu, S ^c   Pantic, E ^a   Suyama, M ^c   Wang, H ^a   Arisaka, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PHYSIK INSTITUT DER UNIVERSITÄT ZÜRICH   (Switzerland)

^c CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dark matter; Double beta decay; Liquid xenon; Photomultiplier tubes; Qupid

Indexed keywords

DARK MATTER; DOUBLE BETA DECAY; LIQUID XENON; PHOTO MULTIPLIER TUBE; QUPID;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DETECTORS; EXPERIMENTS; FUSED SILICA; GALAXIES; LIQUIDS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTOCATHODES; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS; QUARTZ; RADIATION; SCINTILLATION;

RADIOACTIVITY;

EID: 80052877042     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2011.07.015     Document Type: Article

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