Development and commissioning of the timing counter for the MEG experiment

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 379-388

  De Gerone, M ^a   Dussoni, S ^a   Fratini, K ^a   Gatti, F ^a   Valle, R ^a   Boca, G ^b   Cattaneo, P W ^c   Nardo R ^b   Rossella, M ^c   Galli, L ^d   Grassi, M ^d   Nicolo D ^e   Uchiyama, Y ^f   Zanello, D ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI PAVIA   (Italy)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^g INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

High resolution timing detector; scintillator counter; timing counter

Indexed keywords

DESIGN CRITERION; MAGNETIC SPECTROMETERS; SCINTILLATING FIBER; TIMING COUNTER; TIMING DETECTORS; TRACK RECONSTRUCTION; TWO LAYERS;

EXPERIMENTS;

SCINTILLATION;

EID: 84859896769     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2012.2187311     Document Type: Article

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