A Novel High Pressure Gas Scintillation X-Ray Detector With Fast Timing Properties And High Compton Suppression Capability

Volker Dangendorf; Horst Schmidt-Bocking; Amos Breskin; Rachel Chechik

doi:10.1117/12.962577

27 November 1989 A Novel High Pressure Gas Scintillation X-Ray Detector With Fast Timing Properties And High Compton Suppression Capability

Volker Dangendorf, Horst Schmidt-Bocking, Amos Breskin, Rachel Chechik

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Proceedings Volume 1159, EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy and Atomic Physics; (1989) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.962577
Event: 33rd Annual Technical Symposium, 1989, San Diego, United States

Abstract

A Gas Scintillation Counter (GSC) with high background rejection capability, fast timing char-acteristics and good energy resolution has been developed for quasimolecular X-ray spectroscopy in inelastic heavy ion - atom collisions. The detector presented in this paper consists of a high pressure Xe-filled absorption cell and a secondary scintillation parallel gap. Highly efficient de-tection of the primary light provides a time resolution of 3 ns (FWHM). The energy resolution is 4.3% (FWHM) for 60 keV X-rays. A rejection efficiency of 92% for Compton background in the energy range between 35 and 160 keV is obtained by applying the K - fluorescence gating method and pulse-shape analysis, to the secondary scintillation pulse.

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Volker Dangendorf, Horst Schmidt-Bocking, Amos Breskin, and Rachel Chechik "A Novel High Pressure Gas Scintillation X-Ray Detector With Fast Timing Properties And High Compton Suppression Capability", Proc. SPIE 1159, EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy and Atomic Physics, (27 November 1989); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.962577

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