Development of hybrid MSGC detectors with high position and time-of-flight resolution for neutron scattering experiments at ESS

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4785, Issue , 2002, Pages 203-213

  Schulz, Ch ^a   Gebauer, B ^a   Richter, G ^a   Namaschk, B ^a   Balykov, L N ^a   Levchanovski, F V ^b   Nikiforov, A ^b   Shashkin, V I ^c   Klimov, A Yu ^c   Rogov, V V ^c  

^a HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICS OF MICROSTRUCTURES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; NEUTRON SCATTERING; NEUTRON SOURCES;

HIGH POSITION RESOLUTION; HIGH TIME-OF-FLIGHT RESOLUTION; LOW-PRESSURE GAS AMPLIFICATION; MICROSTRIP GAS CHAMBER DETECTOR; ON-LINE DATA PROCESSING;

NEUTRON DETECTORS;

EID: 0036980412     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.454821     Document Type: Conference Paper

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