A high efficiency, low background detector for measuring pair-decay branches in nuclear decay
| Autor: | Alfredo Estrade, A. H. Wuosmaa, Sam M. Austin, S. T. Marley, J. Snyder, N. J. Goodman, K. Starosta, John Yurkon, J. C. Lighthall, Giuseppe Lorusso, Clarisse Tur |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Physics
Nuclear and High Energy Physics Antiparticle Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Detector Gamma ray FOS: Physical sciences Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) Electron Nuclear physics Positron Antimatter Atomic physics Instrumentation Radioactive decay Lepton |
| Zdroj: | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 594:66-73 |
| ISSN: | 0168-9002 |
| Popis: | We describe a high efficiency detector for measuring electron-positron pair transitions in nuclei. The device was built to be insensitive to gamma rays and to accommodate high overall event rates. The design was optimized for total pair kinetic energies up to about 7 MeV. Accepted for publication by Nucl. Inst. & Meth. in Phys. Res. A (NIM A) |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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