Luminescence quenching of the triplet excimer state by air traces in gaseous argon

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Amsler, C ^a   Boccone, V ^a   Buchler A ^a   Chandrasekharan, R ^b   Regenfus, C ^a   Rochet, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gaseous detectors; Photon detectors for UV, visible and IR photons (vacuum) (photomultipliers, HPDs,others); Scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, gas and liquid scintillators)

Indexed keywords

AIR CONTAMINATION; DECAY TIME CONSTANT; EMISSION PROCESS; GASEOUS DETECTORS; LUMINESCENCE QUENCHING; PHOTON DETECTOR; SCINTILLATION YIELDS; WAVELENGTH SHIFTER;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; IONIZATION; LIGHT; PHOTONS; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SLOW LIGHT;

ARGON;

EID: 62649175263     PISSN: 17480221     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/3/02/P02001     Document Type: Article

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