Study of avalanche microchannel photodiodes for use in scintillation detectors

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-10

  Britvitch, I ^a   Lorenz, E ^a   Olshevski, A ^b   Renker, D ^c   Sadygov, Z ^b,d   Scheuermann, R ^c   Stoykov, A ^b,c   Werner, A ^e   Zheleznykh, I ^f   Zhuk, V ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Azerbaijan)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^f INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Gamma detectors (scintillators, CZT, HPG, HgI etc); Photon detectors for UV; Timing detectors; Visible and IR photons (solid state)

Indexed keywords

MERCURY COMPOUNDS; MICROCHANNELS; PHOTODIODES; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS;

GAMMA DETECTORS; PHOTO MULTIPLIER TUBE; PHOTON DETECTOR; TIMING DETECTORS; VISIBLE AND IR PHOTONS (SOLID-STATE);

SCINTILLATION;

EID: 33748931310     PISSN: 17480221     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/1/08/p08002     Document Type: Article

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