TY - JOUR
T1 - Quenching effects in nitrogen gas scintillation
AU - Morii, Hideki
AU - Mizouchi, Kentaro
AU - Nomura, Tadashi
AU - Sasao, Noboru
AU - Sumida, Toshi
AU - Kobayashi, Makoto
AU - Murayama, Yoshiyuki
AU - Takashima, Ryuichi
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank L. Littenberg, D. Jaffe and other KOPIO collaborators for reading this paper and giving useful comments. This research was supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, under the Grant-in-Aids for Scientific Research on Priority Areas, and through the Japan-U.S. Cooperative Research Program in High Energy Physics.
PY - 2004/7/1
Y1 - 2004/7/1
N2 - We report on the studies of quenching effects in N2 scintillation. Our main interest is to find a practical gas that reduces the scintillation yield in air substantially. We have studied O2, CO 2, and CH4 in N2, and have determined their Stern-Volmer constant. When two quenching gases are used in a mixture, the effects are found to be additive. The quenching mechanism of these gases is discussed and its practical application is reported.
AB - We report on the studies of quenching effects in N2 scintillation. Our main interest is to find a practical gas that reduces the scintillation yield in air substantially. We have studied O2, CO 2, and CH4 in N2, and have determined their Stern-Volmer constant. When two quenching gases are used in a mixture, the effects are found to be additive. The quenching mechanism of these gases is discussed and its practical application is reported.
KW - Gas scintillation
KW - KOPIO
KW - Quenching
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U2 - 10.1016/j.nima.2004.02.015
DO - 10.1016/j.nima.2004.02.015
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:2942552389
SN - 0168-9002
VL - 526
SP - 399
EP - 408
JO - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
JF - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
IS - 3
ER -