Gamma-ray detection efficiency of the microchannel plate installed as an ion detector in the low energy particle instrument onboard the GEOTAIL satellite

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Tanaka, Y T ^a   Yoshikawa, I ^a   Yoshioka, K ^a   Terasawa, T ^b   Saito, Y ^c   Mukai, T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; GAMMA RAYS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; MAGNETOSPHERE; SATELLITES;

ION DETECTORS; LOW ENERGY PARTICLE (LEP); MICROCHANNEL PLATE (MCP);

RADIATION DETECTORS;

AMERICIUM; CESIUM; ION;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; ELECTRONICS; GAMMA RADIATION; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; INSTRUMENTATION; RADIOMETRY; STANDARD;

AMERICIUM; CALIBRATION; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; GAMMA RAYS; IONS; MINIATURIZATION; RADIOMETRY; SPECTROMETRY, GAMMA;

EID: 34047095351     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2713440     Document Type: Article

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