THE PERFORMANCE OF LOW-COST COMMERCIAL PHOTODIODES FOR CHARGED-PARTICLE AND X-RAY SPECTROMETRY

Authors
BUENO CC GONCALVES JAC SANTOS MDD
Citation
Cc. Bueno et al., THE PERFORMANCE OF LOW-COST COMMERCIAL PHOTODIODES FOR CHARGED-PARTICLE AND X-RAY SPECTROMETRY, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 371(3), 1996, pp. 460-464
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Physics, Particles & Fields","Instument & Instrumentation",Spectroscopy
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment → ACNP
ISSN journal
01689002
Volume
371
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
460 - 464
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1996)371:3<460:TPOLCP>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
The energy response of a low-cost commercial silicon photodiodes detec tors for alpha particles, fission fragments, internal conversion elect rons and X-rays was studied. An alpha energy resolution of 16.7 keV (F WHM) was obtained for 5.486 MeV alpha-particles from Am-241 which is c omparable in performance with the best surface barrier detectors avail able, that are considerably more expensive.