The NEPOMUC upgrade and advanced positron beam experiments

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 14, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Hugenschmidt, Christoph ^a   Piochacz, Christian ^a   Reiner, Markus ^a   Schreckenbach, Klaus ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM BRIGHTNESS; BEAM FORMATION; BEAM INTENSITY; BEAM TUBES; HIGH INTENSITY; HIGH-SENSITIVITY; NEPOMUC; PAIR PRODUCTION; PLASMA PHYSICS; POSITRON BEAMS; POSITRON SOURCES; PRIMARY BEAMS;

ATOMIC PHYSICS; ELECTRONS; EXPERIMENTS; LUMINANCE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PILES; PLATINUM; REACTOR OPERATION;

POSITRONS;

EID: 84861930461     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/14/5/055027     Document Type: Article

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