Any light particle search II - Technical design report

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Bahre R ^a   Dobrich B ^b   Dreyling Eschweiler, J ^b   Ghazaryan, S ^b   Hodajerdi, R ^b   Horns, D ^c   Januschek, F ^b   Knabbe, E A ^b   Lindner, A ^b   Notz, D ^b   Ringwald, A ^b   Von Seggern, J E ^b   Stromhagen, R ^b   Trines, D ^b   Willke, B ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b DESY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; LIGHT PARTICLES; TECHNICAL DESIGN; THE STANDARD MODEL;

INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 84884860074     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/8/09/T09001     Document Type: Article

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