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most citedUse of polyethylene naphthalate as a self-vetoing structural material

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physics.ins-det2021

Production and validation of scintillating structural components from low-background Poly(ethylene naphthalate)

Y. Efremenko, M. Febbraro, F. Fischer +28

Poly Ethylene Naphthalate (PEN) is an industrial polymer plastic which is investigated as a low background, transparent, scintillating and wavelength shifting structural material.…

physics.ins-det2021

LEGEND-1000 Preconceptual Design Report

LEGEND Collaboration, N. Abgrall, I. Abt +261

We propose the construction of LEGEND-1000, the ton-scale Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless Decay. This international experiment is designed to answer one o…

physics.ins-det2020

Usage of PEN as self-vetoing structural material in low background experiments

I. Abt, Y. Efremenko, M. Febbraro +22

PEN is an industrial polyester plastic which has become interesting for the physics community as a new type of plastic scintillator. PEN scintillates in the blue regime, which is i…

physics.ins-det2019★ 25 cited

Use of polyethylene naphthalate as a self-vetoing structural material

Y. Efremenko, L. Fajt, M. Febbraro +15

The discovery of scintillation in the blue regime from polyethylene naphthalate (PEN), a commonly used high-performance industrial polyester plastic, has sparked considerable inter…

physics.ins-det2017★ 7 cited

PEN as self-vetoing structural Material

B. Majorovits, S. Eck, F. Fischer +7

Polyethylene Naphtalate (PEN) is a mechanically very favorable polymer. Earlier it was found that thin foils made from PEN can have very high radio-purity compared to other commerc…