Simulated performance of high-Z detectors with Medipix3 readout

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Pennicard, D ^a   Graafsma, H ^a  

^a DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Detector modelling and simulations II (electric fields, charge transport, multiplication and induction, pulse formation, electron emission, etc); Front end electronics for detector readout; Hybrid detectors; X ray detectors

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053542356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/6/06/P06007     Document Type: Article

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