A Four-Gap Glass-RPC Time-of-Flight Array With 90 PS Time Resolution

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1658-1663

  Akindinov, A ^a   Fonte, P ^b   Golovine, V ^a   Formenti, F ^c   Klempt, W ^c   Kluge, A ^c   Martemiyanov, A ^a   Martinengo, P ^c   Pinhao, J ^b   Smirnitski, A ^a   Spegel, M ^c   Szymanski, P ^d   Zalipska, J ^e  

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

^b LIP Coimbra   (Portugal)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

^d INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Gas detectors; Resistive plate chambers; Time offlight (TOF) detector

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961294305     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.960353     Document Type: Article

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