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A focusing gas scintillation proportional counter
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An improved large-area gas scintillation proportional counter has been built, suitable for use in X-ray astronomy as discussed by the authors, which employs electron focusing in a drift region to achieve uniform response.About:
This article is published in Nuclear Instruments and Methods.The article was published on 1977-08-01. It has received 22 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Scintillation & Proportional counter.read more
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Performance characteristics of a gas scintillation spectrometer for X-ray astronomy
TL;DR: In this paper, the optimal electrical parameters of a spherical electric field gas scintillation spectrometer for X-ray astronomy were determined using a collimated 55Fe 5.9 keV source.
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A large area, gas scintillation proportional counter
TL;DR: In this paper, an improved gas scintillation proportional counter with a measured overall energy resolution of 9.3% at 5.9 keV has been built, which is sufficiently well defined to allow the use of pulse-shape discrimination to reject 86% of the non-X-ray events in a space environment.
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A liquid xenon proportional scintillation counter
Kimiaki Masuda,S. Takasu,Tadayoshi Doke,T. Takahashi,A. Nakamoto,Shinzou Kubota,Eido Shibamura +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the characteristics of a liquid xenon proportional scintillation counter have been studied by using conversion electrons from 207 Bi and the best resolution was about 18% fwhm for 1 MeV electrons, which was almost the same as that of the charge.
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A simple, inexpensive gas proportional scintillation counter for X-ray fluorescence analysis
TL;DR: In this article, a simple, inexpensive, high-performance gas proportional scintillation counter for x-ray spectrometry is described, with an energy resolution of less than 9% for 5.9 keV Mn fluorescent x-rays.
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The dependence of the energy resolution of gas proportional scintillation counters on the scintillation region to photomultiplier distance
TL;DR: In this article, the energy resolution for broad X-ray beams of gas proportional scintillation counters (GPSC) with medium to large size windows, parallel grids, and no focusing system is discussed.
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Recent Progress in the Development of a Gas Scintillation Proportional Counter for X-Ray Astronomy
TL;DR: In this article, a gas scintillation proportional counter (GSPC) was proposed for X-ray astronomy, which has an energy resolution of 8.35% at 6 keV and the ability to reject more than 90% of background events normally falling within a selected energy window.
Recent advances in gas scintillation proportional counters
TL;DR: In this paper, various geometrical configurations for gas scintillation proportional counters have been investigated in order to determine which configuration is best for use in a large volume, high efficiency counter for measuring low energy gamma and x-rays.
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The Energy Resolution and Window Area Capabilities of the Gas Proportional Scintillation Counter
TL;DR: In this paper, the relative efficiencies of tetraphenylbutadiene, p-terphenyl, diphenyl-stilbene, sodium salicylate and p-quaterphenyl were measured.
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Recent Developments in Parallel-Grid, Gas-Scintillation Proportional Counters
TL;DR: In this article, the problems of developing large-area, gas-scintillation proportional counters with high resolution are considered, and it is found that simple large area, parallel-grid proportional counters suffer from a variation in gain over the counter window.
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