Toward a model accounting for the impact of surface treatment on the performances of scintillation counters

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3141, Issue , 1997, Pages 324-335

  Moisan, Christian ^a   Levin, Anthony ^a   Laman, H ^a  

^a TRIUMF   (Canada)

Author keywords

Corrugated or rough surface; DETECT; Gamma ray and X ray detectors; Monte Carlo; Optical photon transport model; Scintillation counters; Surface model; UNIFIED

Indexed keywords

FRICTION; GAMMA RAYS; LIGHT EMISSION; LUMINESCENCE; METAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; STARS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; X RAY APPARATUS;

CORRUGATED OR ROUGH SURFACE; DETECT; GAMMA-RAY AND X-RAY DETECTORS; MONTE CARLO; OPTICAL PHOTON TRANSPORT MODEL; SURFACE MODEL; UNIFIED;

SURFACE TREATMENT;

EID: 0037849078     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.279244     Document Type: Conference Paper

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