Light output of Double Chooz scintillators for low energy electrons

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Aberle, C ^a   Buck, C ^a   Hartmann, X ^a,b   Schonert S ^a,c   Wagner, S ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^b Hartmann Scientific   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Detector modelling and simulations I (interaction of radiation with matter, interaction of photons with matter, interaction of hadrons with matter, etc); Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics; Liquid detectors; Scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, gas and liquid scintillators)

Indexed keywords

EID: 82955201793     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/6/11/P11006     Document Type: Article

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