Crosstalk study of the single-photon response of a flat-panel PMT for the RICH upgrade at LHCb

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 57, Issue 4 PART 2, 2010, Pages 2267-2272

  Arnaboldi, Claudio ^a   Artuso, Marina ^b   Calvi, Marta ^a   Fanchini, Erica ^a   Gotti, Claudio ^a   Maino, Matteo ^a   Matteuzzi, Clara ^a   Perego, Davide Luigi ^a   Pessina, Gianluigi ^a   Wang, Jianchun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crosstalk; optoelectronic; photomultipliers; photonic sensors

Indexed keywords

CHERENKOV; FLAT-PANEL PMT; HYBRID PHOTON DETECTORS; NUMBER OF ELECTRONS; OPTOELECTRONIC; PHOTON MULTIPLIER TUBES; PHOTONIC SENSORS; RING IMAGING CHERENKOV DETECTOR; SINGLE PHOTONS;

PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS; PIXELS; SENSORS;

CROSSTALK;

EID: 77955838339     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2010.2052928     Document Type: Article

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