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Yanping Xu1, Guy Garty, Stephen A Marino

  • 1Radiological Research Accelerator Facility, Columbia University, 136 S. Broadway, P.O. Box 21, Irvington, NY 10533, USA.

Journal of Instrumentation : an IOP and SISSA Journal
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