Novel single photon detectors for UV imaging


Fonte P., Francke T., Pavlopoulos N., Peskov V., Rodionov I.

NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT, cilt.553, sa.1-2, ss.30-34, 2005 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

Özet

In this study we present an UV single-photon imaging detector based on a thin-gap Resistive Plate Chamber, featuring a very good position resolution of 30 mu m in a digital readout mode and a reasonable quantum efficiency of 0.3-8% in the spectral interval 200-140nm. These detectors are inherently spark-protected and can operate without feedback problems at gas gains up to 10(5).