STUDY OF TIMING DEGRADATION AND LIGHT ATTENUATION IN LONG PLASTIC SCINTILLATION RODS FROM TIME-OF-FLIGHT COUNTERS IN RELATIVISTIC HEAVY-ION EXPERIMENTS

被引:12
作者
KURATA, M [1 ]
KATO, S [1 ]
KUMAGAI, A [1 ]
KURITA, K [1 ]
MIAKE, Y [1 ]
SATO, S [1 ]
TOMIZAWA, K [1 ]
UENOHAYASHI, S [1 ]
YAGI, K [1 ]
NAGAMIYA, S [1 ]
NAYAK, TK [1 ]
VOSSNACK, O [1 ]
YANG, XH [1 ]
ZHAN, WL [1 ]
机构
[1] COLUMBIA UNIV,NEVIW LABS,IRVINGTON,NY 10533
关键词
Phosphors;
D O I
10.1016/0168-9002(94)91209-2
中图分类号
TH7 [仪器、仪表];
学科分类号
0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;
摘要
We have studied the timing and light yield characteristics of long and thin scintillator samples of various sizes. Both the light yield and the time resolution degrade exponentially with respect to the distance from one end; the inverse slope parameters for the time resolutions are found to be twice those of the light yield. This is interpreted in terms of a photoelectron statistics picture, which can also explain the observed position dependence of time resolution for time-of-flight counters.
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页码:447 / 453
页数:7
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