First results of the experiment to search for double beta decay of 116Cd with the help of enriched 116CdWO4 crystal scintillators

4th International Conference on Current Problems in Nuclear Physics and Atomic Energy, NPAE 2012 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue PART 2, 2013, Pages 353-356

  Barabash, A S ^a   Belli, P ^b   Bernabei, R ^b,c   Cappella, F ^d,e   Caracciolo, V ^f   Castellano, S ^f   Cerulli, R ^f   Chernyak, D M ^g   Danevich, F A ^g   Galashov, E N ^h   Incicchitti, A ^d,e   Kobychev, V V ^g   Konovalov, S I ^a   Laubenstein, M ^f   Poda, D V ^g   Podviyanuk, R B ^g   Polischuk, O G ^e,g   Shlegel, V N ^h   Tretyak, V I ^g   Umatov, V I ^a   Vasiliev, Ya V ^h   more..

^a INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^e INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA   (Italy)

^f LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL GRAN SASSO   (Italy)

^g INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Ukraine)

^h NIKOLAEV INSTITUTE OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IONIZATION; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; TIN;

CRYSTAL SCINTILLATORS; DOUBLE BETA DECAY; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; EXCITED LEVELS; GRAN SASSO NATIONAL LABORATORY; LOW-BACKGROUND EXPERIMENT; MEV ENERGY;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84898941233     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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