THE HIGH-SENSITIVITY BETA-GAMMA SPECTROMETER ELEGANTS V FOR RARE BETA(E) AND BETA-BETA(EE) DECAYS

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作者
EJIRI, H
HIGA, K
KAMADA, T
KOBIKI, H
MATSUOKA, K
OKADA, K
SANO, H
SHIBATA, T
SHIMA, T
TANABE, N
TANAKA, J
TANIGUCHI, T
WATANABE, T
YAMAMOTO, N
机构
[1] OSAKA UNIV,DEPT PHYS,TOYONAKA,OSAKA 560,JAPAN
[2] OSAKA UNIV,NUCL STUDIES LAB,TOYONAKA,OSAKA 560,JAPAN
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10.1016/0168-9002(91)90414-L
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TH7 [仪器、仪表];
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0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;
摘要
The high sensitivity beta-gamma spectrometer ELEGANTS V (ELEctron GAmma-ray Neu Trino Spectrometer V) has been developed primarily for studying rare double-beta decays. It is a low background high sensitivity detector for low energy beta (beta), electron (e) and gamma (gamma) decays. ELEGANTS V is shown to be useful for the study of ultrarare nuclear beta(e), beta-beta(ee), beta(e)gamma and beta-beta(ee)gamma decays with decay rates of the order of T approximately 10(-27-30) s-1 (t1/2 approximately 10(20-23 yr).
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