Performance of the EIGER single photon counting detector

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Tinti, G ^a,b   Bergamaschi, A ^a   Cartier, S ^a,c   Dinapoli, R ^a   Greiffenberg, D ^a   Johnson, I ^a   Jungmann Smith, J H ^a   Mezza, D ^a   Mozzanica, A ^a   Schmitt, B ^a   Shi, X ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Detector alignment and calibration methods (lasers, sources, particle beams); Instrumentation for synchrotron radiation accelerators; Solid state detectors; X ray detectors

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DATA HANDLING; LIGHT; LIGHT SOURCES; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PHOTONS; PILES; PIXELS; READOUT SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS; SOLID STATE LASERS; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; SYNCHROTRONS;

CALIBRATION METHOD; PARALLEL DATA PROCESSING; PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE; RADIATION ACCELERATORS; SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING DETECTORS; SOLID STATE DETECTORS; SYNCHROTRON LIGHT SOURCE; X-RAY DETECTOR;

PARTICLE BEAMS;

EID: 84947795664     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/10/03/C03011     Document Type: Article

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