Title of article
Interpretation of light-quenching factor measurements
Author/Authors
Bavykina، نويسنده , , I. and Christ، نويسنده , , P. and Huff، نويسنده , , P. and Ninkovi?، نويسنده , , J. and Proebst، نويسنده , , F. and Seidel، نويسنده , , W. and Stodolsky، نويسنده , , L.، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2007
Pages
5
From page
489
To page
493
Abstract
We observe that the pattern of the quenching factor for scintillation light from various ions, recently studied in CaWO4 in connection with dark matter detectors, can be understood as a saturation phenomenon in which the light output is simply proportional to track length, independent of the ion and its energy. This observation is in accord with the high dE/dx limit of Birks’ law. It suggests a simple model for the intrinsic resolution of light detectors for low energy ions, which we briefly discuss.
Keywords
Dark matter , Cryodetector , Scintillation light , Quenching factor
Journal title
Astroparticle Physics
Serial Year
2007
Journal title
Astroparticle Physics
Record number
1332458
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