Influence of wall effect on detection efficiency of β-emitters in TDCR-Čerenkov method

Zihao FAN; Juncheng LIANG; Haoran LIU; Daqing YUAN; Yang XIAO; Changhao SUN; Zhijie YANG; Meiling LIU

doi:10.11889/j.0253-3219.2023.hjs.46.060504

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