A Gas Proportional Scintillation Counter with KI and KBr-covered Microstrip Plate as Photosensor: Experimental Results

Author

Carmo, S. J c do ; Carita, L. P M M ; Borges, F.I.G.M. ; Conde, C.A.N.

Author_Institution

Departamento de Fisica, Univ. de Coimbra

Volume

3

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 29 2006-Nov. 1 2006

Firstpage

1354

Lastpage

1358

Abstract

The performance of a xenon-filled gas proportional scintillation counter instrumented with a microstrip plate covered with KI and KBr films as photocathodes to detect the VUV Xe scintillation light is reported. The results for its energy resolution and detector gain for 5.9 keV X-rays are presented and compared with previous results obtained with a CsI film deposited on the microstrip plate under the same conditions. Its performance was studied as a function of the halide film thickness and the scintillation region length. The best energy resolutions obtained reached values of 11.4% and 14.9% for KI and KBr, respectively.

Keywords

X-ray detection; gas scintillation detectors; photocathodes; position sensitive particle detectors; proportional counters; 5.9 keV; VUV xenon scintillation light; X-rays detection; gas proportional scintillation counter; halide film thickness; microstrip plate photosensor; photocathodes; postassium bromide film; potassium iodide film; scintillation region length; xenon gas; Cathodes; Energy resolution; Instruments; Microstrip; Optical films; Production; Scintillation counters; Solid scintillation detectors; X-ray detection; X-ray detectors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2006. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0560-2

Electronic_ISBN

1095-7863

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.354154

Filename

4179267