The veto system of the DarkSide-50 experiment

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Agnes, P ^a   Agostino, L ^b   Albuquerque, I F M ^c,d   Alexander, T ^e,f   Alton, A K ^g   Arisaka, K ^h   Back, H O ^c,i   Baldin, B ^f   Biery, K ^f   Bonfini, G ^j   Bossa, M ^k   Bottino, B ^l,m   Brigatti, A ⁿ   Brodsky, J ^c   Budano, F ^o,p   Bussino, S ^o,p   Cadeddu, M ^q,r   Cadonati, L ^e   Cadoni, M ^q,r   Calaprice, F ^c   Canci, N ^j,s   Candela, A ^j   Cao, H ^c   Cariello, M ^m   Carlini, M ^j   Catalanotti, S ^t,u   Cavalcante, P ^j,v   Chepurnov, A ^w   Cocco, A G ^t   Covone, G ^t,u   Crippa, L ^n,x   D'Angelo, D ^n,x   D'Incecco, M ^j   Davini, S ^j,k   De Cecco, S ^b   De Deo, M ^j   De Vincenzi, M ^o,p   Derbin, A ^y   Devoto, A ^q,r   Di Eusanio, F ^c   Di Pietro, G ^j,n   Edkins, E ^z   Empl, A ^s   Fan, A ^h   Fiorillo, G ^t,u   Fomenko, K ^aa   Foster, G ^e,f   Franco, D ^a   Gabriele, F ^j   Galbiati, C ^c,n   Giganti, C ^b   Goretti, A M ^j   Granato, F ^ab   Grandi, L ^ac   Gromov, M ^w   Guan, M ^ad   Guardincerri, Y ^f   Hackett, B R ^z   Herner, K R ^f   Hungerford, E V ^s   Ianni, Aldo ^j,ae   Ianni, Andrea ^c   James, I ^o,p   Johnson, T ^ao   Jollet, C ^af   Keeter, K ^ag   Kendziora, C L ^f   Kobychev, V ^ah   Koh, G ^c   Korablev, D ^aa   Korga, G ^j,s   Kubankin, A ^ai   Li, X ^c   Lissia, M ^r   Lombardi, P ⁿ   Luitz, S ^aj   Ma, Y ^ad   Machulin, I N ^ak,al   Mandarano, A ^j,k   Mari, S M ^o,p   Maricic, J ^z   Marini, L ^l,m   Martoff, C J ^ab   Meregaglia, A ^af   Meyers, P D ^c   Miletic, T ^ab   Milincic, R ^z   Montanari, D ^f   Monte, A ^e   Montuschi, M ^j   Monzani, M E ^aj   Mosteiro, P ^c   Mount, B J ^ag   Muratova, V N ^y   Musico, P ^m   Napolitano, J ^ab   Nelson, A ^c   Odrowski, S ^j   Orsini, M ^j   Ortica, F ^am,an   Pagani, L ^l,m   Pallavicini, M ^l,m   Pantic, E ^ao   Parmeggiano, S ⁿ   Pelczar, K ^ap   Pelliccia, N ^am,an   Perasso, S ^a   Pocar, A ^c,e   Pordes, S ^f   Pugachev, D A ^ak,al   Qian, H ^c   Randle, K ^e   Ranucci, G ⁿ   Razeto, A ^c,j   Reinhold, B ^z   Renshaw, A L ^h,s   Romani, A ^am,an   Rossi, B ^c,t   Rossi, N ^j   Rountree, S D ^v   Sablone, D ^j   Saggese, P ⁿ   Saldanha, R ^ac   Sands, W ^c   Sangiorgio, S ^aq   Savarese, C ^j,k   Segreto, E ^ar   Semenov, D A ^y   Shields, E ^c   Singh, P N ^s   Skorokhvatov, M D ^ak,al   Smirnov, O ^aa   Sotnikov, A ^aa   Stanford, C ^c   Suvorov, Y ^h,j,ak   Tartaglia, R ^j   Tatarowicz, J ^ab   Testera, G ^m   Tonazzo, A ^a   Trinchese, P ^u   Unzhakov, E V ^y   Vishneva, A ^aa   Vogelaar, R B ^v   Wada, M ^c   Walker, S ^t,u   Wang, H ^h   Wang, Y ^h,ad,as   Watson, A W ^ab   Westerdale, S ^c   Wilhelmi, J ^ab   Wojcik, M M ^ap   Xiang, X ^c   Xu, J ^c   Yang, C ^ad   Yoo, J ^f   Zavatarelli, S ^m   Zec, A ^e   Zhong, W ^ad   Zhu, C ^c   Zuzel, G ^ap   more..

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^f FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^g AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^j LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL GRAN SASSO   (Italy)

^k GRAN SASSO SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^l UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^m INFN SEZIONE DI GENOVA   (Italy)

ⁿ INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO   (Italy)

^o INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA   (Italy)

^p ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^q UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^r SEZIONE DI CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^s University of Houston   (United States)

^t INFN SEZIONE DI NAPOLI   (Italy)

^u UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^v VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^w MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^x UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^y PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^z UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^aa JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^ab Temple University   (United States)

^ac UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^ad INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

^ae Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc   (Spain)

^af UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^ag BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ah INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^ai BELGOROD STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^aj SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^ak KURCHATOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^al NATIONAL RESEARCH NUCLEAR UNIVERSITY MEPHI   (Russian Federation)

^am UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^an INFN SEZIONE DI PERUGIA   (Italy)

^ao UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^ap JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^aq LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^ar UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^as UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

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Author keywords

Cherenkov and transition radiation; Dark Matter detectors (WIMPs, axions, etc.); Neutron detectors (cold, thermal, fast neutrons); Scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, gas and liquid scintillators)

Indexed keywords

IONIZATION; PARTICLE DETECTORS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

CHERENKOV AND TRANSITION RADIATION; DARK MATTER DETECTORS; EMISSION PROCESS; EVENT RECONSTRUCTION; FAST NEUTRONS; LIQUID SCINTILLATOR DETECTORS; PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; WATER CHERENKOV DETECTORS;

NEUTRONS;

EID: 84963959600     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/11/03/P03016     Document Type: Article

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