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 ,
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
