Scintillation and charge yield from the tracks of energetic electrons in superfluid helium-4

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Guo, W ^a   Dufault, M ^a   Cahn, B ^a   Nikkel, A ^a   Shin, Y ^a   McKinsey, N ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryogenics; Detector modelling and simulations II (electric fields, charge transport, multiplication and induction, pulse formation, electron emission, etc); Ionization and excitation processes; Noble liquid detectors (scintillation, ionization two phase)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856908707     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/7/01/P01002     Document Type: Article

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