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DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE OF RECTANGULAR LARGE-AREA SCINTILLATION COUNTERS

Journal Article · · Nucl. Instr. Methods
The design and the problem of light collection from large-area scintillation counters are discussed. A new method of light collection is employed to collect the light from a large-area scintillation counter. It is shown that, employing this method of light collection and two RCA 58l9 photomultipliers, the response of a scintillation counter of area 100 x 35 cm/sup 2/ is uniform to within 10% except in the corners near the photomultipliers where the average pulse height increases to about 30% above the value near the center of the scintillation counter. The design presented suggests that reasonable uniformity can be obtained in a scintillation counter having an area of 1 m/sup 2/ employing three RCA 5819 photomultipliers. (auth)
Research Organization:
Potchefstroom Univ. for C.H.E., South Africa
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
NSA Number:
NSA-18-018210
OSTI ID:
4039219
Journal Information:
Nucl. Instr. Methods, Journal Name: Nucl. Instr. Methods Vol. Vol: 25
Country of Publication:
Country unknown/Code not available
Language:
English

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