Near-intrinsic energy resolution for 30-662 keV gamma rays in a high pressure xenon electroluminescent TPC

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

Volumn 708, Issue , 2013, Pages 101-114

  Alvarez V ^a   Borges, F I G M ^b   Carcel S ^a   Castel, J ^c   Cebrian S ^c   Cervera, A ^a   Conde, C A N ^b   Dafni, T ^c   Dias, T H V T ^b   Diaz J ^a   Egorov, M ^e   Esteve, R ^d   Evtoukhovitch, P ^f   Fernandes, L M P ^b   Ferrario, P ^a   Ferreira, A L ^l   Freitas, E D C ^b   Gehman, V M ^e   Gil, A ^a   Goldschmidt, A ^e   Gomez H ^c   Gomez Cadenas J J ^a   Gonzalez Diaz D ^c   Gutierrez R M ^h   Hauptman, J ⁱ   Hernando Morata, J A ^j   Herrera, D C ^c   Iguaz, F J ^c   Irastorza, I G ^c   Jinete, M A ^h   Labarga, L ^k   Liubarsky, I ^a   Lopes, J A M ^b   Lorca, D ^a   Losada, M ^h   Luzon G ^c   Mari A ^d   Martin Albo J ^a   Martinez A ^a   Miller, T ^e   Moiseenko, A ^f   Monrabal, F ^a   Monteiro, C M B ^b   Mora, F J ^d   Moutinho, L M ^g   Munoz Vidal J ^a   Natal Da Luz, H ^b   Navarro, G ^h   Nebot Guinot, M ^a   Nygren, D ^e   Oliveira, C A B ^e   Palma, R ^l   Perez J ^m   Perez Aparicio J L ^l   Renner, J ^e   Ripoll, L ⁿ   Rodriguez A ^c   Rodriguez J ^a   Santos, F P ^b   Dos Santos, J M F ^b   Segui, L ^c   Serra, L ^a   Shuman, D ^e   Simon A ^a   Sofka, C ^o   Sorel, M ^a   Toledo, J F ^d   Tomas A ^c   Torrent, J ⁿ   Tsamalaidze, Z ^f   Vazquez D ^j   Veloso, J F C A ^g   Villar, J A ^c   Webb, R C ^o   White, J T ^o   Yahlali, N ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO DE INSTRUMENTACIÓN PARA IMAGEN MOLECULAR I3M   (Spain)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^g UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^h CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES   (Colombia)

ⁱ IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j Universidade de Santiago de Compostela   (Spain)

^k UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^l UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^m CSIC   (Spain)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^o TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Electroluminescence; Energy resolution; High pressure; Neutrinoless double beta decay; TPC; Xenon

Indexed keywords

DARK MATTER; DETECTOR DESIGN; DOUBLE BETA DECAY; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; FWHM RESOLUTION; HIGH PRESSURE XENON; HIGH-PRESSURE; LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY; LIQUID XENON; NEUTRINOLESS DOUBLE-BETA DECAYS; OPERATING PARAMETERS; TIME PROJECTION CHAMBERS; TPC;

ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; EXPERIMENTS; GAMMA RAYS; NEUTRONS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; XENON;

IMAGE RESOLUTION;

EID: 84874044879     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2012.12.123     Document Type: Article

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