ISSN:
1089-7623
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Control Technology
Notes:
A brief description of the most common encoding methods, and their relative merits, used with position sensitive proportional detectors at synchrotron facilities will be made. While some of these systems are reaching maturity, continued development is resulting in further improvements, especially in terms of linearity and resolution. The use of detectors with special geometries for specific experiments will be described. The microstrip gas chamber will be addressed, with particular emphasis on a comparison of its capabilities with those of the multiwire proportional chamber. The development of proportional detectors intended for dynamic studies at second- and third-generation sources, with counting rate capabilities well in excess of these generally available at present, will be described. The use of gas based detectors, albeit with modest energy resolution, for photon detection in the energy regime of a few hundred electron volts will be mentioned. © 1995 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1145683
