A Fluka study of underground cosmogenic neutron production

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Empl, A ^a   Hungerford, E V ^a   Jasim, R ^a   Mosteiro, P ^a,b  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

dark matter detectors; dark matter experiments; neutrino detectors; neutrino experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84918844107     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2014/08/064     Document Type: Article

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