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An instrument for measuring scintillators efficiently based on silicon photomultipliers
| العنوان: | An instrument for measuring scintillators efficiently based on silicon photomultipliers |
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| المؤلفون: | Yang, M. J., Zhang, Z. M., Wang, Y. J., Li, D. W., Zhou, W., Tang, H. H., Liu, Y. T., Chai, P., Shuai, L., Huang, X. C., Liu, S. Q., Zhu, M. L., Jiang, X. P., Zhang, Y. W., Li, T., Ma, B., Sun, S. F., Sun, L. Y., Wang, Q., Lu, Z. R., Zhang, T., Wei, L. |
| المساهمون: | National Natural Science Foundation of China |
| المصدر: | Review of Scientific Instruments ; volume 87, issue 11 ; ISSN 0034-6748 1089-7623 |
| بيانات النشر: | AIP Publishing |
| سنة النشر: | 2016 |
| الوصف: | An instrument used for measuring multiple scintillators’ light output and energy resolution was developed. The instrument consisted of a light sensor array which was composed of 64 discrete SiPMs (Silicon Photomultipliers), a corresponding individual channel readout electronics system, and a data processing algorithm. A Teflon grid and a large interval between adjacent SiPMs were employed to eliminate the optical cross talk among scintillators. The scintillators’ light output was obtained by comparing with a reference sample with known light output. Given the SiPM temperature dependency and the difference among each SiPM, a temperature offset correction algorithm and a non-uniformity correction algorithm were added to the instrument. A positioning algorithm, based on nine points, was designed to evaluate the performance of a scintillator array. Tests were performed to evaluate the instrument’s performance. The uniformity of 64 channels for light output measurement was better than 98%, the stability was better than 98% when temperature varied from 15 °C to 40 °C, and the nonlinearity under 511 keV was better than 2%. This instrument was capable of selecting scintillators and evaluating the packaging technology of scintillator arrays with high efficiency and accuracy. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1063/1.4968563 |
| DOI: | 10.1063/1.4968563/15846818/113308_1_online.pdf |
| الاتاحة: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4968563 https://pubs.aip.org/aip/rsi/article-pdf/doi/10.1063/1.4968563/15846818/113308_1_online.pdf |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.6B8E713F |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.1063/1.4968563 |
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