Ultra-stable implanted 83Rb/83mKr electron sources for the energy scale monitoring in the KATRIN experiment

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Zboril M ^a,b   Bauer, S ^a   Beck, M ^a   Bonn, J ^c   Dragoun, O ^b   Jakubek J ^d   Johnston, K ^e   Kovalik A ^b,f   Otten, E W ^c   Schlosser K ^g   Slezak M ^b,h   Spalek A ^b   Thummler T ^g   Venos D ^b   Zemlicka J ^d   Weinheimer, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^e CERN   (Switzerland)

^f JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^g KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^h CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Detector alignment and calibration methods (lasers, sources, particlebeams); Spectrometers

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION METHOD; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; CONVERSION ELECTRONS; ELECTRON NEUTRINO; ELECTRON SPECTROMETER; LOW-ENERGY SPECTRA; RELATIVE ENERGIES; STANDARD TOOLS;

CALIBRATION; ELECTRON SOURCES; EXPERIMENTS; KINETICS;

SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 84875526879     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/8/03/P03009     Document Type: Article

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