Radioactivity backgrounds in ZEPLIN-III

Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 495-502

  Araujo H M ^a   Akimov, D Yu ^b   Barnes, E J ^c   Belov, V A ^b   Bewick, A ^a   Burenkov, A A ^b   Chepel, V ^d   Currie, A ^a   DeViveiros, L ^d   Edwards, B ^e   Ghag, C ^c   Hollingsworth, A ^c   Horn, M ^a   Kalmus, G E ^e   Kobyakin, A S ^b   Kovalenko, A G ^b   Lebedenko, V N ^a   Lindote, A ^d,e   Lopes, M I ^d   Luscher R ^e   Majewski, P ^e   Murphy, A St J ^c   Neves, F ^a,d   Paling, S M ^e   Pinto Da Cunha, J ^d   Preece, R ^e   Quenby, J J ^a   Reichhart, L ^c   Scovell, P R ^c   Silva, C ^d   Solovov, V N ^d   Smith, N J T ^e   Smith, P F ^e   Stekhanov, V N ^b   Sumner, T J ^a   Thorne, C ^a   Walker, R J ^a   more..

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^e STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Background studies; Dark matter searches; Liquid xenon detectors; Radioactivity; ZEPLIN III

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; GALAXIES; GAMMA RAYS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADIATION; SCINTILLATION;

BACKGROUND STUDIES; DARK MATTER SEARCHES; ELASTIC CROSS SECTIONS; LIQUID XENON; NEUTRON ELASTIC SCATTERING; RADIOLOGICAL CONTAMINATION; SCINTILLATION RESPONSE; ZEPLIN-III;

RADIOACTIVITY;

EID: 84857046665     PISSN: 09276505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2011.11.001     Document Type: Article

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