Search Results - "Limagne, D."
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The role of additives towards increasing the SIMPLE SDD lifetime
Published in Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment (01-05-2006)“…The lifetime of a Superheated Droplet Detector (SDD) is limited by the fracture of the gel matrix, due to the growth of the bubble in time caused by Oswald…”
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Response of SIMPLE SDDs to monochromatic neutron irradiations
Published in Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment (01-07-2004)“…We report measurements of the response of large-volume superheated droplet detectors for the SIMPLE project to filtered monochromatic neutron beams of energies…”
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First dark matter limits from a large-mass, low-background, superheated droplet detector
Published in Physical review letters (09-10-2000)“…We report on the fabrication aspects and calibration of the first large active mass ( approximately 15 g) modules of SIMPLE, a search for particle dark matter…”
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The simple SDD
Published in Radiation protection dosimetry (01-09-2006)“…We describe the fabrication and characterisation of the SIMPLE superheated droplet detector, a 10 g active mass device of C2ClF5 in 1–3% weight concentrations…”
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MCNP optimization of filtered neutron beams for calibration of the SIMPLE detector
Published in Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section B, Beam interactions with materials and atoms (2004)“…We report an MCNP study of filtered monochromatic neutron beams of energies 25, 54 and 149 keV for response studies of a superheated droplet detector for the…”
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Neutron spectrometry with large volume, heavy-loaded superheated droplet detectors: a simple spin-off
Published in Radiation protection dosimetry (01-01-2005)“…SIMPLE is a superheated droplet detector (SDD) experiment designed to search for the evidence of spin-dependent weakly interacting neutralino dark matter…”
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A novel transition radiation detector utilizing superconducting microspheres for measuring the energy of relativistic high-energy charged particles
Published in Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment (01-03-2000)“…A novel transition radiation detector (TRD) utilizing superheated superconducting microspheres of tin of 22–26, 27–32 and 32–38 μm in diameter, respectively,…”
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Expulsion of magnetic flux in a type-I superconducting strip
Published in Physica. C, Superconductivity (2002)“…Flux expulsion in a type-I superconducting strip, induced by decrease of a perpendicular magnetic field following field increase-induced flux penetration, is…”
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Measurements of the energy of relativistic high energy charged particles by a novel superconducting transition radiation detector
Published in Physica. C, Superconductivity (01-11-2001)“…In want of a detector capable of measuring accurately the energy of relativistic high energy charged particles, a novel transition radiation detector (TRD)…”
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Beta irradiation of a geometrically metastable superconducting strip detector with a magnetic flux penetration read-out
Published in Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment (11-02-1996)“…Geometrical metastability, observed in superconducting type I tin flat strips, has been previously proposed as a principle for particle detection. The energy…”
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Preliminary results from the ROC-Europe transition radiation experiment with a multichannel superheated superconducting grain detector
Published in Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment (2000)“…A compact multichannel Superheated Superconducting Grain detector (SSG) has been irradiated by the T9 beam (mostly composed by high energy electrons) of the…”
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Study of a novel transition radiation detector utilizing superconducting microspheres for measuring the energy of relativistic high energy charged particles
Published in Physica. C, Superconductivity (2000)“…In want of a detector capable of measuring accurately the energy of relativistic high energy charged particles, a novel transition radiation detector (TRD)…”
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Geometrically-metastable superconducting strip detectors
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The Lisbon-Zaragoza-Paris dark matter search
Published in Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment (11-02-1996)“…We present a status report on a pilot experiment to establish the feasibility of searching for evidence of weakly-interacting dark matter with an intrinsic…”
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Radiation detection with a metastable superconducting detector composed of nonspherical grains
Published in Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment (11-02-1996)“…Differential superheating curves at 385 mK of an Al grain suspension, with dimensions of the order of 5–15 μm and ellipsoidal geometry at 20% volume filling…”
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The Lisbon-Zaragoza-Paris dark matter search
Published in Nuclear physics. Section B, Proceedings supplement (01-05-1996)“…We describe an experiment to establish the feasibility of searching for evidence of cold dark matter with an intrinsic metastable superconducting detector. The…”
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Preliminary results in the construction of a 2D imaging device with metastable superconducting grains
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SIMPLE dark matter search results
Published in Physics letters. B (18-08-2005)“…We report an improved SIMPLE experiment comprising four superheated droplet detectors with a total exposure of 0.42 kgd. The result yields ∼ factor 10…”
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A new description of the behavior of metastable superconducting grains suspensions under irradiation
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A reexamination of the energy resolution of metastable superconducting detectors
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