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The High Energy Physics group of the University of Texas at Arlington Physics Department has been developing Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detectors for use as the sensitive gap detector in digital hadron calorimeters (DHCAL) for the future…
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A new type of radiation detector, a p-type modified electrode germanium diode, is presented. The prototype displays, for the first time, a combination of features (mass, energy threshold and background expectation) required for a…
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(abridged) The results of deep long-slit optical spectroscopy for a sample of 8 6C radio galaxies at z~1 are presented. Emission line ratios are derived for emission lines with rest-frame wavelengths of 1500 - 4500Ang, and the kinematic…
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