• Title of article

    Improved light transitions from scintillators to new photocathode windows

  • Author/Authors

    DʹAmbrosio، نويسنده , , C and De Notaristefani، نويسنده , , F and Leutz، نويسنده , , H and Puertolas، نويسنده , , D and Rosso، نويسنده , , E، نويسنده ,

  • Pages
    5
  • From page
    455
  • To page
    459
  • Abstract
    Replacement of a quartz photocathode window by an YAlO3 (YAP) window yielded improved light transitions from BGO crystals (1.78 times) and PbWO4 crystals (1.76 times) to the photocathode. This improvement is due to the higher refractive index of YAP (1.95), which matches much better the indices of BGO (2.14) and PbWO4 (2.18) than quartz (1.47).
  • Keywords
    Light transitions , Photocathode windows , Scintillators
  • Journal title
    Astroparticle Physics
  • Record number

    2009608