Characterization of scintillators by modern photomultipliers - A new source of errors

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 57, Issue 5 PART 3, 2010, Pages 2886-2896

  Moszyński, Marek ^a   Szczȩśniak, Tomasz ^a   Kapusta, MacIej ^b   Szawlowski, Marek ^a   Iwanowska, Joanna ^a   Gierlik, Michał ^a   Syntfeld Kazuch, Agnieszka ^a   Świderski, Łukasz ^a   Melcher, Chuck L ^c   Eriksson, Lars A ^d   Glodo, Jarek ^e  

^a SOLTAN INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Poland)

^b PHOTONIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^d SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^e RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

BGO; light output of scintillators; LSO; LYSO; photoelectron number; photomultipliers; single photoelectron peak; space charge in photomultipliers

Indexed keywords

BGO; LIGHT OUTPUT OF SCINTILLATORS; LSO; LYSO; SINGLE PHOTOELECTRON PEAK; SPACE CHARGE IN PHOTOMULTIPLIERS;

ELECTRIC SPACE CHARGE; IONIZATION; PHOSPHORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

PHOTOELECTRONS;

EID: 79953764984     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2010.2054111     Document Type: Article

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