A Large-Area Gas Scintillation Proportional Counter for X-Ray Astronomy
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
- Vol. 25 (1), 813-816
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tns.1978.4329415
Abstract
An improved large-area gas scintillation proportional counter has been built, suitable for use in X-ray astronomy. This counter employs electron focusing in a drift region to achieve uniform response. We show that we can obtain a spectral resolution of 9.1% FWHM at 5.9 keV over a useful area of 100 cm2. We demonstrate that signal rise-time discrimination can be used to reject non-X-ray background as efficiently as in ordinary proportional counters.Keywords
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