Fluorescence efficiencies of thin scintillating films in the extreme ultraviolet spectral region

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 351-358

  McKinsey, D N ^a   Brome, C R ^a   Butterworth, J S ^a   Golub, R ^b   Habicht, K ^b   Huffman, P R ^a   Lamoreaux, S K ^c   Mattoni, C E H ^a   Doyle, J M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA PARTICLES; ARGON; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); FLUORESCENCE; PLASTIC FILMS; SCINTILLATION; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; SPRAYED COATINGS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

DIPHENYL STILBENE; ORGANIC SCINTILLATORS; SODIUM SALICYLATE; TERPHENYL; TETRAPHENYL BUTADIENE;

PHOSPHORS;

EID: 0031268266     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-583X(97)00409-6     Document Type: Article

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