Demonstration of a dual-range photon detector with SDD and LaBr 3Ce3+ scintillator

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1229-1237

  Pausch, Guntram ^a   Plettner, Cristina ^b   Herbach, Claus Michael ^a   Stein, Juergen ^a   Moszyński, Marek ^a   Nassalski, Antoni ^a   Świderski, Łukasz ^a   Szczȩśniak, Tomasz ^a   Niculae, Adrian ^c   Soltau, Heike ^c  

^a ICx Technologies GmbH   (Germany)

^b SOLTAN INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Poland)

^c PNSENSOR GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Energy resolution; Gamma ray spectroscopy; Homeland security; Pulse shape discrimination; Radioisotope identification; Scintillation detectors; Silicon detectors

Indexed keywords

ENERGY RESOLUTION; GAMMA-RAY SPECTROSCOPY; HOMELAND SECURITY; PULSE SHAPE DISCRIMINATION; SCINTILLATION DETECTORS;

CERIUM; CERIUM COMPOUNDS; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETERS; GAMMA RAYS; GAS DETECTORS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LUMINESCENCE; METAL DETECTORS; NEUTRON DETECTORS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; PULSE SHAPING CIRCUITS; QUANTUM OPTICS; RADIOISOTOPES; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SECURITY SYSTEMS; STARS;

SILICON DETECTORS;

EID: 67649213980     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.2003254     Document Type: Article

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