Liquid noble gas detectors for low energy particle physics

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Chepel, V ^a   Araujo H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Charge transport, multiplication and electroluminescence in rare gases and liquids; Dark matter detectors (WIMPs, axions, etc.); Neutrino detectors; Noble liquid detectors (scintillation, ionization, double phase)

Indexed keywords

DARK MATTER DETECTORS; DARK MATTER SEARCHES; ENERGY THRESHOLDS; LOW-ENERGY PARTICLES; NEUTRINO DETECTORS; NOBLE LIQUIDS; PHOTON DETECTION; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES;

COHERENT SCATTERING; DETECTORS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EXPERIMENTS; GALAXIES; INERT GASES; IONIZATION OF GASES; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; LIQUIDS;

PARTICLE DETECTORS;

EID: 84877761263     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/8/04/R04001     Document Type: Review

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