Multiple hit readout of a microchannel plate detector with a three-layer delay-line anode

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49 II, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 2477-2483

  Jagutzki, Ottmar ^a,b   Cerezo, Alfred ^c   Czasch, Achim ^a   Dörner, Reinhard ^a   Hattaß, Mirko ^a   Huang, Min ^c,d   Mergel, Volker ^a,b   Spillmann, Uwe ^a   Ullmann Pfleger, Klaus ^a,b   Weber, Thorsten ^a   Schmidt Böcking, Horst ^a   Smith, George D W ^c  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b RoentDek GmbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d Screen Technology Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Delay line; Fragment imaging; Imaging; Microchannel plate; Multihit; Three dimensional (3 D) detection

Indexed keywords

ANODES; ELECTRIC DELAY LINES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; READOUT SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TIMING CIRCUITS;

FRAGMENT IMAGING; HEXAGONAL DELAY LINE; MICROCHANNEL PLATE DETECTOR; MULTIPLE HIT READOUT;

PARTICLE DETECTORS;

EID: 0036816140     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.803889     Document Type: Article

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