Pion decay-mode tagging in a plastic scintillator using COPPER 500-MHz FADC

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1222-1226

  Yamada, Kaoru ^a   Yoshida, Makoto ^a   Igarashi, Youichi ^b   Aoki, Masaharu ^a   Tauchi, Kazuya ^b   Ikeno, Masahiro ^b   Takubo, Yosuke ^a   Muroi, Akira ^a   Tanaka, Manobu ^b   Kuno, Yoshitaka ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

Author keywords

COmmon pipelined platform for electronics readout (COPPER); Flash ADC (FADC); Muon; PIENU; Pion; Waveform

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; READOUT SYSTEMS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

DECAY RATES; MUON; PIONS;

PHOSPHORS;

EID: 34548099976     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2007.901220     Document Type: Conference Paper

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