Basic limitations of scintillation counters in time measurements
Abstract
The time resolution of a scintillation detector is calculated from the scintillator illumination function, and the response of the photomultiplier to an instantaneous pulse of light. Such calculations using the parameters of present scintillators and photomultipliers agree with measured resolutions and predict improvements. Parameters of commercial and some promising experimental fast scintillators are given, as well as measurements on transit time spread of some fast photomultipliers.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- 1974
- Bibcode:
- 1974STIN...7522700L
- Keywords:
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- Scintillation Counters;
- Time Measurement;
- Photomultiplier Tubes;
- Pulse Duration;
- Time Signals;
- Instrumentation and Photography