Long-term study of backgrounds in the DRIFT-II directional dark matter experiment

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Brack, J ^a   Daw, E ^b   Dorofeev, A ^a   Ezeribe, A C ^b   Fox, J R ^c   Gauvreau, J L ^c   Gold, M ^d   Harmon, L ^c   Harton, J L ^a   Lafler, R ^d   Landers, J M ^c   Lauer, R ^d   Lee, E R ^d   Loomba, D ^d   Matthews, J A J ^d   Miller, E H ^d   Monte, A ^c   Murphy, A St J ^e   Paling, S M ^f   Phan, N ^d   Pipe, M ^b   Robinson, M ^b   Sadler, S ^b   Scarff, A ^b   Snowden Ifft, D P ^c   Spooner, N J C ^b   Telfer, S ^b   Walker, D ^b   Yuriev, L ^b   more..

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f Boulby Underground Science Facility   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dark Matter detectors (WIMPs axions etc.); Gaseous imaging and tracking detectors; Time projection Chambers (TPC); Wire chambers (MWPC Thin gap chambers drift chambers drift tubes proportional chambers etc)

Indexed keywords

DRIFT CHAMBERS; EXPERIMENTS; GALAXIES; RADON;

DARK MATTER DETECTORS; DARK MATTER SEARCHES; DRIFT TUBE; PARTICLE IDENTIFICATIONS; TIME PROJECTION CHAMBERS; TRACKING DETECTORS; UNDERGROUND LABORATORY; WEAKLY INTERACTING MASSIVE PARTICLES;

IONIZATION CHAMBERS;

EID: 84905160392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/9/07/P07021     Document Type: Article

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