Performance of the Hamamatsu R11410 photomultiplier tube in cryogenic xenon environments

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Baudis, L ^a   Behrens, A ^a   Ferella, A ^a   Kish, A ^a   Marrodan Undagoitia T ^a,b   Mayani, D ^a   Schumann, M ^a,c  

^a PHYSIK INSTITUT DER UNIVERSITÄT ZÜRICH   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dark Matter detectors (WIMPs, axions, etc.); Noble liquid detectors (scintillation, ionization, double phase); Photon detectors for UV, visible and IR photons (vacuum) (photomultipliers, HPDs, others)

Indexed keywords

DARK MATTER DETECTORS; DARK MATTER SEARCHES; LIGHT SENSOR; LIQUID XENON; LONG-TERM BEHAVIOR; NOBLE LIQUIDS; PHOTO MULTIPLIER TUBE; PHOTON DETECTOR;

DETECTORS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; EXPERIMENTS; GALAXIES; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; LIQUIDS; PHOTOIONIZATION; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

RADIOACTIVITY;

EID: 84877738835     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/8/04/P04026     Document Type: Article

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