Title :
A gas scintillation proportional detector to search for 17 keV neutrinos
Author :
Okx, W.J.C. ; Bom, V.R. ; van Eijk, C.W.E. ; Hollander, R.W.
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Appl. Phys., Delft Univ. of Technol., Netherlands
Abstract :
An experiment in which a gas scintillation proportional detector is used to search for 17-keV neutrinos is described. With this detector, possible disturbing solid-state phenomena from tritium in the semiconductor lattice are excluded. With a count rate of 1000 events per second (including position information), of which 300 are considered good events, it takes 40 days to produce the required statistics. It is shown that the detector considered possesses the required energy resolution with drift properties
Keywords :
neutrino detection and measurement; proportional counters; scintillation counters; 17 keV; 17 keV neutrinos; count rate; energy resolution; gas scintillation proportional detector; proportional counters; scintillation counters; Electrons; Elementary particles; Flanges; Glass; Neutrino sources; Physics; Resistors; Seals; Solid scintillation detectors; Windows;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 1992., Conference Record of the 1992 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0884-0
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.1992.301149
