A liquid-helium cooled large-area silicon PIN photodiode X-ray detector

被引:4
作者
Inoue, Y [1 ]
Moriyama, S [1 ]
Hara, H [1 ]
Minowa, M [1 ]
Shimokoshi, F [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV TOKYO,GRAD SCH SCI,DEPT PHYS,BUNKYO KU,TOKYO 113,JAPAN
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10.1016/0168-9002(95)00872-1
中图分类号
TH7 [仪器、仪表];
学科分类号
0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;
摘要
An X-ray detector using a liquid-helium cooled large-area silicon PIN photodiode has been developed along with a tailor-made charge sensitive preamplifier whose first-stage JFET has been cooled. The operating temperature of the JFET has been varied separately and optimized. The X- and gamma-ray energy spectra for an Am-241 source have been measured with the photodiode operated at 13 K. An energy resolution of 1.60 keV(FWHM) has been obtained for 60-keV gamma rays and 1.30 keV (FWHM) for the pulser. The energy threshold could be set as low as 3 keV. It has been shown that a silicon PIN photodiode serves as a low-cost excellent X-ray detector which covers a large area at 13 K.
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