Proportional light in a dual-phase xenon chamber

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 5 I, 2004, Pages 1986-1990

  Aprile, Elena ^a   Giboni, Karl L ^a   Majewski, Pawel ^a   Ni, Kaixuan ^a   Yamashita, Masaki ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Dark matter search; Dual phase xenon; Electro luminescence; Photomultiplier tube (PMT); Proportional scintillation

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC SHIELDING; IONIZATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SCINTILLATION; STAINLESS STEEL; XENON;

DARK MATTER SEARCH; DUAL-PHASE XENON; LIQUID XENON; PHOTOMULTIPLIER TUBE (PMT); PROPORTIONAL SCINTILLATION;

MICROELECTRONICS;

EID: 8344262464     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.832690     Document Type: Article

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