HEROICA: An underground facility for the fast screening of germanium detectors

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Andreotti, E ^a   Garfagnini, A ^b,c   Maneschg, W ^d   Barros, N ^e   Benato, G ^f   Brugnera, R ^b,c   Costa, F ^c   Falkenstein, R ^g   Guthikonda, K K ^f   Hegai, A ^g   Hemmer, S ^b,c   Hult, M ^a   Janner K ^d   Kihm, T ^d   Lehnert, B ^e   Liao, H ^h   Lubashevskiy, A ^d   Lutter, G ^a   Marissens, G ^a   Modenese, L ^c   Pandola, L ⁱ   Reissfelder, M ^d   Sada, C ^c   Salathe, M ^d   Schmitt, C ^g   Schulz, O ^h   Schwingenheuer, B ^d   Turcato, M ^c   Ur, C ^c   Von Sturm, K ^g   Wagner, V ^d   Westermann, J ^d   more..

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c SEZIONE DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^e DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f PHYSIK INSTITUT DER UNIVERSITÄT ZÜRICH   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^h MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

ⁱ LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL GRAN SASSO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cryogenic detectors; Doublebeta decay detectors; Gamma detectors (scintillators, CZT, HPG, HgI etc); Solid state detectors

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION MEASUREMENT; CRYOGENIC DETECTORS; DOUBLE BETA DECAY; GAMMA DETECTORS; HIGH PURITY GERMANIUM DETECTORS; NEUTRINOLESS DOUBLE-BETA DECAYS; SOLID STATE DETECTORS; UNDERGROUND RESEARCH LABORATORIES;

DIGITAL STORAGE; DIODES; EXPERIMENTS; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS;

GERMANIUM;

EID: 84880760786     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/8/06/P06012     Document Type: Article

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