TY - JOUR
T1 - An optimised thin film wavelength shifting coating for Cherenkov detection
AU - Grande, Manuel
AU - Moss, Gary R.
N1 - Funding Information:
We wish to acknowledget he SERC for funding. Prof. P.H. Fowler for many useful discussions(,' . Kave of Rohm and Haas for Paraloids amplesa nd S. Milward for being in at the kill.
Copyright:
Copyright 2015 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 1983/10/1
Y1 - 1983/10/1
N2 - Investigations of an appropriate thin film wavelength shifting (WLS) coatings for Cherenkov radiation detection are reported. A number of dyes were investigated and an optimum coating arrived at. This consists of 0.175 mg/cm2 of p-terphenyl, 0.095 mg/cm2 of bis-MSB and 16 mg of acrylic matrix (Paraloid B 72) for coating on a perspex substrate. Coating over Pilot 425 is best done with a bis-MSB grammage reduced to 0.052 mg/cm2. These coatings gave an average quantum efficiency of 91% of that a quartz window PM tube over a wavelength interval of 200-400 nm. A number of hints on the techniques of utilising thin film WLS coatings are also included.
AB - Investigations of an appropriate thin film wavelength shifting (WLS) coatings for Cherenkov radiation detection are reported. A number of dyes were investigated and an optimum coating arrived at. This consists of 0.175 mg/cm2 of p-terphenyl, 0.095 mg/cm2 of bis-MSB and 16 mg of acrylic matrix (Paraloid B 72) for coating on a perspex substrate. Coating over Pilot 425 is best done with a bis-MSB grammage reduced to 0.052 mg/cm2. These coatings gave an average quantum efficiency of 91% of that a quartz window PM tube over a wavelength interval of 200-400 nm. A number of hints on the techniques of utilising thin film WLS coatings are also included.
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U2 - 10.1016/0167-5087(83)90491-X
DO - 10.1016/0167-5087(83)90491-X
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0040982041
SN - 0167-5087
VL - 215
SP - 539
EP - 548
JO - Nuclear Instruments and Methods In Physics Research
JF - Nuclear Instruments and Methods In Physics Research
IS - 3
ER -