Use of Energy Summing for Selection of Coincidence Events in Positron-Lifetime Spectroscopy

• Authors: F. Bec̆vár̆ , J. C̆iz̆ek , I. Procházka
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

A BaF_{2} positron-lifetime spectrometer equipped with a coincidence system that represents a compromise between the traditional fast-fast and fast-slow arrangements is described. The main difference of the present configuration from both the fast-slow and fast-fast ones consists in use of a sum of the energy signals from the start and stop detectors to select the coincidence events. Quality of the spectrometer response function (≈ 150 ps FWHM for ^{22}Na) is very close to that observed for our fast-slow configuration with the equivalent detectors but throughput of the present apparatus is increased almost by a factor of two. Moreover, the electronic scheme becomes less complicated, which has also a positive impact on its cost.

Keywords

EN

78.70.Bj

Discipline

• 78.70.Bj: Positron annihilation(for positron states, see 71.60.+z in electronic structure of bulk materials; for positronium chemistry, see 82.30.Gg in physical chemistry and chemical physics)

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 1999
• Volume: 95
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 448-454

Dates

published

1999-04

Contributors

author

F. Bec̆vár̆

• Department of Low-Temperature Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, V Holešovičkách 2, 180 00 Prague 8, The Czech Republic

author

J. C̆iz̆ek

• Department of Low-Temperature Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, V Holešovičkách 2, 180 00 Prague 8, The Czech Republic

author

I. Procházka

• Department of Low-Temperature Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, V Holešovičkách 2, 180 00 Prague 8, The Czech Republic

Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.95.448