Interpretation of light-quenching factor measurements

被引：12

作者：

Bavykina, I. ^{[1
]}

Christ, P. ^{[1
]}

Huff, P. ^{[1
]}

Ninkovic, J. ^{[1
]}

Proebst, F. ^{[1
]}

Seidel, W. ^{[1
]}

Stodolsky, L. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Max Planck Inst Phys & Astrophys, Werner Heisenberg Inst Phys, D-80805 Munich, Germany

来源：

ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS | 2007年 / 28卷 / 4-5期

关键词：

dark matter; cryodetector; scintillation light; quenching factor;

D O I：

10.1016/j.astropartphys.2007.09.006

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

We observe that the pattern of the quenching factor for scintillation light from various ions, recently studied in CaWO4 in connection with dark matter detectors, can be understood as a saturation phenomenon in which the light output is simply proportional to track length, independent of the ion and its energy. This observation is in accord with the high dE/dx limit of Birks' law. It suggests a simple model for the intrinsic resolution of light detectors for low energy ions, which we briefly discuss. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：489 / 493

页数：5

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