Position sensitive ΔE detector

Author

Bengis, D.V.H. ; Sealock, R.M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Virginia Univ., Charlottesville, VA, USA

Volume

42

Issue

4

fYear

1995

fDate

8/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

374

Lastpage

378

Abstract

A method is described for simultaneously measuring the interaction position and energy loss in a thin scintillator for energetic charged particles. Wave shifting optical fibers embedded in a scintillator combined with a Hamamatsu R2486 crossed wire anode, position sensitive photomultiplier tube are used. A prototype detector gave 2.4 mm FWHM position resolution for minimum ionizing cosmic rays. Studies to extract a single pulse linear in position from the phototube pulses using neural networks are described

Keywords

cosmic ray apparatus; energy loss of particles; high energy physics instrumentation computing; neural nets; photomultipliers; position sensitive particle detectors; solid scintillation detectors; FWHM position resolution; Hamamatsu R2486 crossed wire anode; energetic charged particles; energy loss; interaction position; minimum ionizing cosmic rays; neural networks; phototube pulses; position sensitive ΔE detector; position sensitive photomultiplier tube; prototype detector; simultaneous measurement; single pulse; thin scintillator; wave shifting optical fibers; Current measurement; Energy loss; Energy measurement; Loss measurement; Optical fibers; Optical pulses; Particle measurements; Position measurement; Position sensitive particle detectors; Wire;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.467817

Filename

467817