Published September 11, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

The statistics of multi-photoelectron pulse-height distributions

Creators

  • 1. Electron Tubes, Bury Street, Ruislip HA4 7TA (United Kingdom)

Description

Multi-photoelectron pulse-height distributions feature in the scientific literature on light detectors, and yet there appears to have been no attempt to describe the statistics of such spectra. Formulas for pdfs are derived, assuming Poisson statistics, but more importantly for single-electron response curves of any description-analytical or experimental. The pdf generated by a pulsed light source, detected by a PMT of high d1 gain, agrees with statistical predictions

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2007.06.021

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nima.2007.06.021;
PII
S0168-9002(07)01218-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Journal Volume
579
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 967-972
ISSN
0168-9002
CODEN
NIMAER

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Copyright
Copyright (c) 2007 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.