Optimizing the design of a silicon photomultiplier-based radiation detector

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

Volumn 652, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 474-478

  Ginzburg, D ^a,b   Kopeika, N ^b   Paran, J ^a   Cohen Zada, I ^a   Ghelman, M ^c   Pushkarsky, V ^a   Marcus, E ^c   Manor, A ^a   Mazor, T ^c   Kadmon, Y ^c   Cohen, Y ^c   Osovizky, A ^a  

^a ROTEM INDUSTRIES LTD   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dynamic range; Light collection; Photon detection efficiency; Scintillation crystal; Silicon photomultiplier

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC RANGE; LIGHT COLLECTION; PHOTON DETECTION EFFICIENCY; SCINTILLATION CRYSTAL; SILICON PHOTOMULTIPLIER;

EFFICIENCY; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS; SCINTILLATION;

DETECTORS;

EID: 80052955508     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2011.01.022     Document Type: Conference Paper

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