Published November 11, 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

A scintillator based time-of-flight hodoscope with a new type of emitter follower divider

  • 1. University of Lund, SE-22100 Lund (Sweden) and V.G. Khlopin Radium Institute, 194021, St.Petersburg (Russian Federation)
  • 2. University of Lund, SE-22100 Lund (Sweden)
  • 3. IFIC, Centro Mixto Universidad de Valencia-CSIC, E-46071 Valencia (Spain)
  • 4. Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung, D-64291 Darmstadt (Germany)
  • 5. II. Physikalisches Institut, Universitaet Giessen, D-35392 Giessen (Germany)
  • 6. Grand Accelerateur National des Ions Lourds, F-14021 Caen (France)

Description

A high precision, time-of-flight hodoscope has been constructed to analyse the secondary pion beam at GSI, Darmstadt. The hodoscope comprises three scintillator planes with the individual scintillator rods read out by photomultipliers in both ends. A new active base of the emitter follower type has been developed for stabilization of voltages at the last dynodes of the photomultiplier. The time resolution of this system was found to be σ=<150ps for counting rates up to 2MHz

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nima.2004.07.172;
PII
S0168-9002(04)01735-8;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Journal Volume
533
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 361-369
ISSN
0168-9002
CODEN
NIMAER

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
37026755
Subject category
S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
Descriptors DEI
ACCURACY; COUNTING RATES; DYNODES; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PION BEAMS; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; SCINTILLATIONS; STABILIZATION; TIME RESOLUTION; TIME-OF-FLIGHT METHOD
Descriptors DEC
BEAMS; COUNTING TECHNIQUES; MESON BEAMS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOTUBES; RESOLUTION; TIMING PROPERTIES

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Copyright
Copyright (c) 2004 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.