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A New High Dynamic Range X-ray Detector

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

S. Cockerton  and
B. K. Tanner
S. Cockerton
Affiliation:
Bede Scientific Instruments, Lindsey Park, BowburnDurham DH6 5PF, U.K. now with: S. C. Scientific, 131 Kenton Lane, KentonNewcastie-u-Tyne NE3 3QB, U.K.
B. K. Tanner
Affiliation:
Bede Scientific Instruments, Lindsey Park, BowburnDurham DH6 5PF, U.K. Also at: Department of Physics, University of Durham, U.K.
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Abstract

We describe the design and application to X-ray diffractometry of a new X-ray detector based on a fast, non-hygroscopic, rare earth scintillator. The detector has a background count of 0.1 c.p.s. and a peak count rate in excess of 3 x 106 c.p.s. A good fit is found to the theoretical curve of measured against real count rate for a paralysable detector with 160 ns dead-time.

Type
IV. New Developments in X-Ray Sources, Instrumentation and Techniques
Information
Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 38: Forty-third Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis , 1994 , pp. 371 - 376
Copyright
Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1994

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