Physics – Instrumentation and Detectors
Scientific paper
2007-07-05
Astropart.Phys.28:489-493,2007
Physics
Instrumentation and Detectors
Seven pages, seven figures, some with color
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.astropartphys.2007.09.
We observe that the pattern of the quenching factors for scintillation light from various ions, recently studied in $CaWO_4$ 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.
Bavykina Irina
Christ Peter
Huff Partick
Ninkovic Jelena
Proebst Franz
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