1. The PARIS calorimeter.
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Jenkins, David and PARIS Collaboration
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CALORIMETERS ,NUCLEAR counters ,SCINTILLATORS ,PHOTOMULTIPLIERS ,LANTHANUM compounds ,METAL crystals - Abstract
The PARIS calorimeter is an apparatus intended for the future SPIRAL2 facility in Caen, France. It will comprise a spherical shell of scintillators detectors making extensive use of LaBr3(Ce) - a relatively new material with excellent energy resolution (∼3% at 662-keV). The individual detector modules will be of a phoswich design where the fast LaBr3(Ce) crystal is optically coupled to a slower conventional crystal like NaI and the scintillation light is collected with a single photomultiplier tube. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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