An ultra-low background PMT for liquid xenon detectors

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 703, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-6

  Akerib, D S ^b   Bai, X ^f   Bernard, E ⁿ   Bernstein, A ^d   Bradley, A ^b   Byram, D ^m   Cahn, S B ⁿ   Carmona Benitez, M C ^b   Carr, D ^d   Chapman, J J ^a   Clark, K ^b   Coffey, T ^b   Edwards, B ⁿ   De Viveiros, L ^e   Dragowsky, M ^b   Druszkiewicz, E ^l   Faham, C H ^a   Fiorucci, S ^a   Gaitskell, R J ^a   Gibson, K R ^b   Hall, C ^k   Hanhardt, M ^f   Holbrook, B ⁱ   Ihm, M ^h   Jacobsen, R G ^h   Kastens, L ⁿ   Kazkaz, K ^d   Larsen, N ⁿ   Lee, C ^b   Lindote, A ^e   Lopes, M I ^e   Lyashenko, A ⁿ   Malling, D C ^a   Mannino, R ^g   McKinsey, D N ⁿ   Mei, D M ^m   Mock, J ⁱ   Morii, M ^c   Nelson, H ^j   Neves, F ^e   Nikkel, J A ⁿ   Pangilinan, M ^a   Phelps, P ^b   Shutt, T ^b   Silva, C ^e   Skulski, W ^l   Solovov, V N ^e   Sorensen, P ^d   Spaans, J ^m   Stiegler, T ^g   Sweany, M ⁱ   Szydagis, M ⁱ   Taylor, D ^h   Thomson, J ⁱ   Tripathi, M ⁱ   Uvarov, S ⁱ   Verbus, J R ^a   Walsh, N ⁱ   Webb, R ^g   White, J T ^g   Wlasenko, M ^c   Wolfs, F L H ^l   Woods, M ⁱ   Zhang, C ^m   more..

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^f SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

ⁿ Yale University   (United States)

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Author keywords

Liquid xenon detectors; PMT; Radioactivity

Indexed keywords

CO MEASUREMENTS; CO-REDUCTION; DARK MATTER; DETECTOR MATERIALS; LIQUID XENON; MATERIAL SELECTION; MONTE CARLO ESTIMATES; NUCLEAR RECOIL; PHOTO MULTIPLIER TUBE; PHOTOCATHODE SURFACES; PMT; UPPER LIMITS;

DETECTORS; EXPERIMENTS; ISOTOPES; RADIATION; RADIOACTIVITY;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 84870770703     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2012.11.020     Document Type: Article

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