Evaluation of 400 low background 10-in. photo-multiplier tubes for the Double Chooz experiment

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

Volumn 661, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 16-25

  Matsubara, T ^a,b   Haruna, T ^b,h   Konno, T ^a   Endo, Y ^b,h   Bongrand, M ^c,i   Furuta, H ^c   Hara, T ^d   Ishitsuka, M ^a   Kawasaki, T ^e   Kuze, M ^a   Maeda, J ^b   Mishina, Y ^e   Miyamoto, Y ^e   Miyata, H ^e   Nagasaka, Y ^f   Sakamoto, Y ^g   Sato, F ^b   Shigemori, A ^e   Suekane, F ^c   Sumiyoshi, T ^b   Tabata, H ^c   Tamura, N ^e   more..

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f HIROSHIMA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^g TOHOKU GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h CanonInc ^*  (Japan)

ⁱ Chargede Recherche   (France)

Author keywords

Low radioactivity; Neutrino; Oscillation; PMT; Reactor; Theta 13

Indexed keywords

LOW-RADIOACTIVITY; NEUTRINO; OSCILLATION; PMT; REACTOR; THETA-13;

DETECTORS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FREQUENCY MULTIPLYING CIRCUITS; GADOLINIUM; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; RADIOACTIVITY; SCINTILLATION;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 80755169028     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2011.09.023     Document Type: Article

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