TIME-AMPLITUDE CONVERTER

Journal Article · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1961 · Acta Electronica

OSTI ID:4717562

Banner, M

To determine the mass of a particle, the common practice in high-energy physics is to measure its transit time. This measurement is not very simple, for it is easier to analyze an amplitude than a time. Thus, a time-amplitude converter was designed and is described. The converter uses a double control grid tube 6BN6 with a resolving time of 5 x 10/sup -11/ sec, as measured with a pulse generator. Analysis of the response of a particle detector, consisting of a scintillator and a photomultiplier, shows that a resolving time of 5 x 10/sup - 10/ sec can be attained. A time of this magnitude was in fact experimentally achieved. The converter described was used to study the transit time of particles in a secondary beam in the accelerator Saturne''. The energy spectra of e (as Fe/sup 59 mesons, protons, and deuterons, emitted by a polyethylene target under 1.4 and 2 Bev proton bombardment, were measured by this method. (auth)

• Research Organization: Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires, Saclay, France
• NSA Number: NSA-17-020351
• OSTI ID: 4717562
• Journal Information: Acta Electronica, Journal Name: Acta Electronica Vol. Vol: 5
• Country of Publication: Country unknown/Code not available
• Language: French

Related Subjects

ACCELERATORS
BEAMS
DEUTERONS
ELECTRON TUBES
ENERGY
INSTRUMENTS AND INSTRUMENTATION
MASS
MEASURED VALUES
MODULATION
PHOTOMULTIPLIERS
PIONS
POLYETHYLENES
PROTONS
PULSE ANALYZERS
QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS
RESOLUTION
SCINTILLATION COUNTERS
SPECTRA
TARGETS