Study of scintillation light from microstructure based detectors

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 47, Issue 3 PART 2, 2000, Pages 933-938

  Fraga, M M ^a   Fetal, S T G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; GAS DETECTORS; LIGHT EMISSION; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; READOUT SYSTEMS; SCINTILLATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

GASEOUS SCINTILLATION PROPORTIONAL COUNTER; SPECTROMETRIC DISTRIBUTION;

SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

EID: 0034206607     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.856721     Document Type: Article

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