Position-sensitive detector with microstrip anode for electron multiplication with gases
Abstract
A position-sensitive detector of a new type has been developed. A microstrip anode replaces the wires generally used for electron multiplication with gases. The microstrips which are fixed on a glass substrate are produced by means of photolithography. The applied electric potential alternates between each strip. With a position-sensitive neutron detector equipped with this new type of anode a counting rate of 2.3 MHz/cm 2 has been measured. The microstrip anode combines the improved qualities of a proportional counter with certain properties of a photomultiplier tube.
- Publication:
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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A
- Pub Date:
- January 1988
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0168-9002(88)90970-9
- Bibcode:
- 1988NIMPA.263..351O