Abstract
The first measurement of the time-of-flight (TOF) resolution of a Bicron-408 scintillation counter equipped with magnetic-resistant fine-mesh Hamamatsu R7761-70 photomultipliers is presented. The data were obtained using the proton beam of the MC50 Cyclotron of the Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences (KIRAMS). The TOF resolution for ∼45-MeV protons is 18.2 ps. Its dependence on the light output L is well fitted by 41.6ps/ √L/LMIP, where LMIP denotes the light output produced by relativistic minimum-ionizing muons which deposit ΔJS ∼ 6 MeV in the detector volume.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 448-453 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Journal of the Korean Physical Society |
Volume | 55 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 2009 |
Keywords
- Fine-mesh photomultiplier
- Scintillation detectors
- Time-of-flight