Absolute number of scintillation photons emitted by alpha particles in rare gases

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49 I, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1674-1680

  Saito, K ^a   Tawara, H ^b   Sanami, T ^b   Shibamura, E ^c   Sasaki, S ^b  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^b HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

^c SAITAMA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Rare gas; Scintillation yield

Indexed keywords

ALPHA PARTICLES; IONIZATION; PHOTOCATHODES; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SCINTILLATION;

SCINTILLATION PHOTONS;

INERT GASES;

EID: 0036703080     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.801700     Document Type: Article

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