FEW ELECTRON RESPONSE AND SPURIOUS BACKGROUND OF LINEAR FOCUSED PHOTOMULTIPLIERS

Authors
BOLLMANN R DOHRMANN F GROSS A KRAUSE H LANGKAU R SCOBEL W WOLLER K
Citation
R. Bollmann et al., FEW ELECTRON RESPONSE AND SPURIOUS BACKGROUND OF LINEAR FOCUSED PHOTOMULTIPLIERS, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 342(2-3), 1994, pp. 466-472
Citations number
10
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
342
Issue
2-3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
466 - 472
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1994)342:2-3<466:FERASB>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
The compact, linear focused ten-stage photomultipliers Hamamatsu R 145 0 and R 1355 have been studied with light pulses generating small numb ers (N(e)BAR less-than-or-equal-to 25) of photoelectrons. Good amplitu de resolution for single photoelectrons as well as for small signals i n general was obtained by considerably increasing the supply voltage U 1 of the first dynode. The time resolution is dominated by the statist ical variation of N(e). The importance of background from microdischar ges and Cherenkov radiation is discussed.