Energy resolution studies for NEXT

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Oliveira, B ^a   Sorel, M ^b   Martin Albo, J ^b   Gomez Cadenas, J ^b   Ferreira, L ^a   Veloso, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Detector modelling and simulations II (electric fields, charge transport, multiplication and induction, pulse formation, electron emission, etc); Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics; Scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, gas and liquid scintillators); Time projection chambers

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053464284     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/6/05/P05007     Document Type: Article

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