| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1771427 | Astroparticle Physics | 2007 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
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.
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Authors
I. Bavykina, P. Christ, P. Huff, J. Ninković, F. Proebst, W. Seidel, L. Stodolsky,