Pulse Shape Simulation and Analysis of Segmented Ge Detectors for Position Extraction

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50, Issue 5 I, 2003, Pages 1309-1316

  Kurokawa, Meiko ^a   Shimoura, Susumu ^a   Iwasaki, Hironori ^a   Baba, Hidetada ^b   Michimasa, Shin'ichiro ^a   Ota, Shinsuke ^c   Murakami, Hiroyuki ^b   Sakai, Hideyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Planar; Position sensitivity; Pulse shape; Segmented germanium detectors

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYOSTATS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

POSITION SENSITIVITY;

GERMANIUM;

EID: 0142063083     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.818238     Document Type: Article

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