A useful method to monitor outputs from a pulsed light source and its application to rate effect studies in a photomultiplier tube

Authors
Takeuchi, Y Hemmi, Y Kurashige, H Matono, Y Murakami, K Nomura, T Sakamoto, H Sasao, N Suehiro, M Fukushima, Y Ikegami, Y Nakamura, TT Taniguchi, T Asai, M
Citation
Y. Takeuchi et al., A useful method to monitor outputs from a pulsed light source and its application to rate effect studies in a photomultiplier tube, NUCL INST A, 430(2-3), 1999, pp. 447-454
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Spectroscopy /Instrumentation/Analytical Sciences","Instrumentation & Measurement
Journal title
NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT
ISSN journal
01689002 → ACNP
Volume
430
Issue
2-3
Year of publication
1999
Pages
447 - 454
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(19990701)430:2-3<447:AUMTMO>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
In order to study short-term gain stability in a photomultiplier tube at hi gh counting rate, we constructed an LED pulsed light source and its output monitoring system. For the monitoring system, we employed a photon counting method using a photomultiplier as a monitor photon detector. It is found t hat the method offers a simple way to monitor outputs from a pulsed light s ource and that, together with an LED light source, it provides a useful met hod to investigate photomultiplier's rate effects. (C) 1999 Elsevier Scienc e B.V. All rights reserved.