A technique for estimating the absolute gain of a photomultiplier tube
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2018.03.034" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2018.03.034</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2018.03.034" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.nima.2018.03.034</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A technique for estimating the absolute gain of a photomultiplier tube
Original language description
Detection of low-intensity light relies on the conversion of photons to photoelectrons, which are then multiplied and detected as an electrical signal. To measure the actual intensity of the light, one must know the factor by which the photoelectrons have been multiplied. To obtain this amplification factor, we have developed a procedure for estimating precisely the signal caused by a single photoelectron. The method utilizes the fact that the photoelectrons conform to a Poisson distribution. The average signal produced by a single photoelectron can then be estimated from the number of noise events, without requiring analysis of the distribution of the signal produced by a single photoelectron. The signal produced by one or more photoelectrons can be estimated experimentally without any assumptions. This technique, and an example of the analysis of a signal from a photomultiplier tube, are described in this study.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10303 - Particles and field physics
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Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A
ISSN
0168-9002
e-ISSN
1872-9576
Volume of the periodical
894
Issue of the periodical within the volume
June
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
7
Pages from-to
1-7
UT code for WoS article
000430704600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85044976285