کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
8172292 1526329 2015 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Study of non-linear energy response of POLAR plastic scintillators to electrons
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه فیزیک و نجوم ابزار دقیق
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Study of non-linear energy response of POLAR plastic scintillators to electrons
چکیده انگلیسی
The POLAR experiment is a joint Chinese-European project conceived for a precise measurement of gamma ray polarization and optimized for the detection of the prompt emission of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) in the energy range 50-500 keV. POLAR is a novel compact space-borne Compton polarimeter consisting of 1600 low-Z plastic scintillator bars (EJ-248M), read out by 25 flat-panel multi-anode photomultiplier tubes. In the paper, we first present a dedicated experiment to study the non-linear energy response of EJ-248M plastic scintillator bars to electrons and the detailed data analysis. Second we obtained the Birks' constant of EJ-248M plastic scintillator as kB=0.143mm/MeV by least squares fitting. Finally we used Geant4 simulation to study the influence of non-linear energy response on the performance of POLAR, through which it was found that non-linear energy response will lead to a significant decrease in statistics and result in larger uncertainty in polarization measurement. The paper presents a general solution to the study of non-linear energy response of plastic scintillators to electrons.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment - Volume 797, 11 October 2015, Pages 94-100
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