Absolute calibration of a time-of-flight spectrometer and imaging plate for the characterization of laser-accelerated protons

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Choi, I W ^a   Kim, C M ^a   Sung, J H ^a   Kim, I J ^a   Yu, T J ^a   Lee, S K ^a   Jin, Y Y ^a   Pae, K H ^a   Hafz, N ^a   Lee, J ^a  

^a Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Absolute calibration; Laser accelerated proton; Proton energy spectrometer; Thomson parabola spectrometer; Time of flight spectrometer

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; NEUTRON SPECTROMETERS;

ABSOLUTE CALIBRATION; LASER-ACCELERATED PROTONS; PROTON ENERGY; THOMSON; TIME-OF-FLIGHT SPECTROMETER;

SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 72149094602     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: 13616501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/20/11/115112     Document Type: Article

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