Charge Loss Correction in a High-Purity Germanium Double-Sided Strip Detector

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2789-2797

  Hayward, Jason P ^a   Wehe, David K ^b  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Charge measurement; germanium radiation detectors; position sensitive particle detectors; signal processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008045221     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.2003130     Document Type: Article

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