Published November 9, 1998
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Journal article
A single-photon multichannel detector: the megapixel EBCCD
Creators
- 1. IIHE (ULB-VUB), Bruxelles (Belgium)
- 2. Universite de Lausanne, Lausanne (Switzerland)
- 3. Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster (Germany)
- 4. Universita 'Federico II' and INFN, Napoli (Italy)
- 5. NIKHEF, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- 6. IHEP, Protvino (Russian Federation)
Description
The CERN RD46 Collaboration is developing a new high resolution tracking detector based on glass capillaries filled with liquid scintillator. In this framework we have built a read-out chain based on a newly developed device: the Megapixel Electron Bombarded CCD (EBCCD). This device is a hybrid image-intensifier tube, with a 1024x1024 pixels CCD chip in place of the phosphor screen. The tube has a 40 mm diameter photocathode, is gateable and zoomable from 0.62 to 1.3. The EBCCD tube is able to detect single photoelectrons, with a signal to noise ratio better than 10. This Megapixel multichannel photon counting device is attractive for many applications in high-energy physics, astrophysics, biomedical diagnostics, and very low-light imaging
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.56987;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- AIP Conference Proceedings
- Journal Volume
- 450
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 509-518
- ISSN
- 0094-243X
- CODEN
- APCPCS
Conference
- Title
- 3. conference on scintillating and fiber detectors
- Acronym
- SCIFI97
- Dates
- 2-6 Nov 1997
- Place
- Notre Dame, IN (United States)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 40069353
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- CAPILLARIES; CHARGE-COUPLED DEVICES; ELECTRON DETECTION; ELECTRONS; IMAGE INTENSIFIERS; LIQUID SCINTILLATION DETECTORS; LIQUID SCINTILLATORS; PHOTOCATHODES; PHOTONS; READOUT SYSTEMS; RESOLUTION; SENSORS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO
- Descriptors DEC
- BLOOD VESSELS; BODY; BOSONS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CATHODES; CHARGED PARTICLE DETECTION; DETECTION; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBERS; ELECTRODES; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; ORGANS; PHOSPHORS; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DETECTORS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 1998 American Institute of Physics