Cadmium-Zinc-Telluride photon detector for epithermal neutron spectroscopy - Pulse height response characterisation

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 526, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 477-492

  Tardocchi, M ^a,b   Pietropaolo, A ^c   Andreani, C ^c   Bracco, A ^d   D'Angelo, A ^c,e   Gorini, G ^a,b   Imberti, S ^a   Senesi, R ^c   Rhodes, N J ^f   Schooneveld, E M ^f  

^a INFM   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO   (Italy)

^e INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA   (Italy)

^f RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CZT; Epithermal neutron; Neutron spectroscopy; Resonance detector

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; FABRICATION; GAMMA RAYS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEUTRON SPECTROMETERS; PHOTONS; RESONANCE;

CZT; EPITHERMAL NEUTRON; NEUTRON SPECTROSCOPY; RESONANCE DETECTOR;

CADMIUM ALLOYS;

EID: 2942689918     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2004.02.040     Document Type: Article

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