Single electron emission in two-phase xenon with application to the detection of coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Neutrino Detectors and Telescopes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863844748     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP12(2011)115     Document Type: Article

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