Large scale Gd-beta-diketonate based organic liquid scintillator production for antineutrino detection

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Aberle, C ^a   Buck, C ^a   Gramlich, B ^a   Hartmann, F X ^a,b   Lindner, M ^a   Schonert S ^a,c   Schwan, U ^a   Wagner, S ^a   Watanabe, H ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^b Hartmann Scientific   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics; Liquid detectors; Scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, gas and liquid scintillators)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862980977     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/7/06/P06008     Document Type: Article

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