Time resolution of scintillation detectors based on SiPM in comparison to photomultipliers

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1728-1735

  Szczesniak T ^a   Moszynski, M ^a   Grodzicka, M ^a   Wolski, D ^a   Swiderski, L ^a   Szawlowski M ^a   Kapusta, M ^b  

^a SOLTAN INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Poland)

^b ICx Radiation   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREAS OF INTERESTS; EXCESS NOISE FACTOR; GAMMA SOURCE; MULTI-PIXEL PHOTON COUNTERS; OUTPUT PULSE; PHOTON STATISTICS; PICOSECOND LASER; PIXEL SIZE; RISETIMES; SCINTILLATION CRYSTALS; SILICON PHOTOMULTIPLIER; TIME JITTERS; TIME RESOLUTION; TIMING RESOLUTIONS;

EXPERIMENTS; GAMMA RAYS; JITTER; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEUTRON DETECTORS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS; PIXELS; SCINTILLATION; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SILICON DETECTORS; SODIUM;

DETECTORS;

EID: 79960317936     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2010.5874070     Document Type: Conference Paper

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