NEST: A comprehensive model for scintillation yield in liquid xenon

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Szydagis, M ^a   Barry, N ^a   Kazkaz, K ^b   Mock, J ^a   Stolp, D ^a   Sweany, M ^a,b   Tripathi, M ^a   Uvarov, S ^a   Walsh, N ^a   Woods, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ionization and excitation processes; Noble liquid detectors (scintillation, ionization twophase); Scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, gas and liquid scintillators); Simulation methods and programs

Indexed keywords

EID: 82955201829     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/6/10/P10002     Document Type: Article

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