Study of pure NaI at room and liquid nitrogen temperatures

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50, Issue 4 II, 2003, Pages 767-773

  Moszynski, M ^a   Balcerzyk, M ^a,b   Czarnacki, W ^a   Kapusta, M ^a   Klamra, W ^c   Schotanus, P ^d   Syntfeld, A ^e   Szawlowski, M ^f  

^a SOLTAN INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Poland)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d SCIONIX Holland BV   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^f Advanced Photonix Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Avalanche photodiodes (APDs); Energy resolution; Nonproportionality of light yield; Pure NaI; Scintillators

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SCINTILLATION; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ENERGY RESOLUTION;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 0041425105     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.815176     Document Type: Conference Paper

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