Published February 1986 | Version v1
Journal article

Photomultiplier Tubes for BaF2/BGO crystal scintillators

  • 1. Hamamatsu photonics K.K. 1126-1 Ichino-cho, Hamamatsu

Description

BGO/BaF2 crystals have been widely employed as scintillation detectors for radioactive sources and charged particles. Photomultiplier Tubes (PMT) are conventionally used on the detector with these scintillators. For these applications, the PMT with rectangular and dual photocathode (to be coupled with BGO crystal) was developed in order to reduce the dead space among PMTs in assembling them together as a ring camera. Furthermore, a PMT of 3/8'' in diameter with a fused silica window was developed for BaF2 scintillator, so that it has the high spatial resolution as well as an excellent time resolving capability. This PMT exhibits the coincidence resolving time of 390 psec with positron emitter of Na-22 and BaF2 crystals. In this paper, the authors report the basic design, construction and characteristics of these latest developed PMTs

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.
Journal Volume
NS-33
Journal Issue
1
Series
IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.
Journal Page Range
vp.
ISSN
0018-9499
CODEN
IETNA

Conference

Title
IEEE nuclear science symposium.
Dates
23-25 Oct 1985.
Place
San Francisco, CA (USA).

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Secondary number(s)
CONF-851009--.