Pulse discrimination between recoil protons and secondary electrons for a silicon diode based neutron spectrometer

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 3 III, 2004, Pages 1049-1055

  Fazzi, Alberto ^a   Agosteo, Stefano ^a   Pola, Andrea ^a   Varoli, Vincenzo ^a   Zotto, Pierluigi ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Neutron spectrometry; Pulse discrimination

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONS; ION IMPLANTATION; IONIZATION; PARTICLE DETECTORS; POLYETHYLENES; POSITIVE IONS; PROTONS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES;

NEUTRON SPECTROMETRY; PULSE DISCRIMINATION; SILICON DIODES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

NEUTRON SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 3342941034     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.829396     Document Type: Conference Paper

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