Performance of a digital CdTe X-ray spectrometer in low and high counting rate environment

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 621, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 447-452

  Abbene, L ^a,b   Gerardi, G ^a   Del Sordo, S ^b   Raso, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b INAF IASF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

CdTe detectors; Digital pulse processing; X ray spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CDTE; CDTE DETECTOR; COUNTING RATES; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; DETECTION SYSTEM; DIGITAL PULSE PROCESSING; DIGITAL SPECTROMETER; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; ENERGY RANGES; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; GAMMA-RAY SPECTROSCOPY; OUTPUT PULSE; PHOTON COUNTING; PILE-UPS; PULSE-HEIGHT ANALYSIS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; X-RAY SPECTRA;

CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; DIGITAL DEVICES; GAMMA RAYS; METAL DETECTORS; SPECTROMETRY; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; X RAYS;

SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 77957895627     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2010.06.002     Document Type: Article

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