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PALS investigations of free volumes thermal expansion of J-PET plastic scintillator synthesized in polystyrene matrix

Nukleonika
Volume 60 (2015): Issue 4 (December 2015)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nuka-2015-0140 | Journal eISSN: 1508-5791 | Journal ISSN: 0029-5922
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Language: English
Page range: 777 - 781
Submitted on: Jul 6, 2015
Accepted on: Aug 24, 2015
Published on: Dec 1, 2015
Published by: Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
free volume,
positron annihilation,
polystyrene,
positronium,
scintillator
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Chemistry,
Nuclear chemistry,
Physics,
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© 2015 Anna Wieczorek, Bożena Zgardzińska, Bożena Jasińska, Marek Gorgol, Tomasz Bednarski, Piotr Białas, Eryk Czerwiński, Aleksander Gajos, Daria Kamińska, Łukasz Kapłon, Andrzej Kochanowski, Grzegorz Korcyl, Paweł Kowalski, Tomasz Kozik, Wojciech Krzemień, Ewelina Kubicz, Szymon Niedźwiecki, Marek Pałka, Lech Raczyński, Zbigniew Rudy, Oleksandr Rundel, Neha Gupta Sharma, Michał Silarski, Artur Słomski, Adam Strzelecki, Wojciech Wiślicki, Marcin Zieliński, Paweł Moskal, published by Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology
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