Condensed xenon scintillators

Author

Baum, W. ; Götz, S. ; Heckwolf, H. ; Heeg, P. ; Mutterer, M. ; Theobald, J.P.

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Kernphys., Tech. Hochschule Darmstadt, West Germany

Volume

35

Issue

1

fYear

1988

fDate

2/1/1988 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

102

Lastpage

104

Abstract

Liquid and solid xenon were investigated as scintillator media for the detection of charge particles. The LET dependence of the integral light output was studied over a wide range of ionization densities using alpha and beta particles and heavy ions of 1.4 MeV/amu. For solid xenon, scintillation decay times were measured by the delayed single-photon method. For liquid xenon, a compact transportable detector unit coupled to a liquid-nitrogen cryostat was designed as a detector for medium-energy heavy ions. With an integrated solid-state detector this unit can be applied as detector telescope for particle identification.

Keywords

alpha-particle detection and measurement; electron detection and measurement; radiation detection and measurement; scintillation counters; LET dependence; Xe; alpha; beta; compact transportable detector unit; delayed single-photon method; heavy ions; integral light output; scintillator; Density measurement; Detectors; Electrons; Particle measurements; Photoelectricity; Solids; Spontaneous emission; Temperature distribution; Vacuum systems; Xenon;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.12683

Filename

12683