Low-Background Experiments with High Pressure Gas Scintillation Proportional Detector

1997/04/16 by D. Yu. Akimov, D.Yu. Akimov, A. A. Burenkov +11
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies #astro-ph #hep-ex #physics.ins-det

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Abstract

A scintillation proportional counter with wavelength shifting fiber readout filled with Xe or Kr under a pressure of up to 20 atm is proposed for the low-background experiments on search for dark matter of the Universe and 2K-decay of 78 Kr.

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