Design of a facility for measuring scintillator non-proportionality

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1753-1758

  Choong, W S ^a,b   Vetter, K M ^c   Moses, W W ^a,b   Hull, G ^c   Payne, S A ^c   Cherepy, N J ^c   Valentine, J D ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compton coincidence; Scintillation mechanisms; Scintillator non proportionality; Scintillators

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; LIGHT EMISSION; LUMINESCENCE; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; THROUGHPUT;

(P ,P ,T) MEASUREMENTS; ACCURATE MEASUREMENTS; COINCIDENCE TECHNIQUES; COMPTON; DATA RATES; ELECTRON RESPONSE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT (HT); MEASUREMENT TIMES; NON-PROPORTIONALITY;

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN;

CALIBRATION; DESIGN; DETECTORS; ELECTRON BEAMS; GERMANIUM; LITHOGRAPHY; LUMINESCENCE; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; METHODS ENGINEERING; RESPONSE TIME; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; THROUGHPUT;

EID: 45849086967     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.921491     Document Type: Conference Paper

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