The Dark Matter part of the universe presumably consists of WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles). The ArDM project aims at measuring signals induced by WIMPs in a liquid argon detector. A 1-ton prototype is currently developed with the goal of demonstrating the feasibility of such a direct detection experiment with large target mass. The technical design of the detector aims at independ...

Recent technological developments and new topology designs have made semiconductor drift detectors ideal devices for high-resolution x-ray spectrometry. In this paper the basic topology of a semiconductor drift detector with on-chip electronics specially designed for x-ray spectrometry is reviewed. These devices have been used for the first time in x-ray and g-ray spectroscopy applications. In ...

Scintillation light from gamma ray irradiation in liquid xenon is detected by two Hamamatsu R9288 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) immersed in the liquid. UV light reflector material, PTFE, is used to optimize the light collection efficiency. The detector gives a high light yield of 6 photoelectron per keV (pe/keV), which allows efficient detection of the 122 keV γ-ray line from 57 Co, with a measu...

Scintillation light from gamma ray irradiations in liquid xenon is detected by two Hamamatsu R9288 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) immersed in the liquid. UV light reflector material, PTFE, is used to optimize the light collection efficiency. The detector gives a high light yield of 6 photoelectron per keV (pe/keV), which allows efficient detection of the 122 keV γ-ray line from 57 Co, with a good...

Low counting experiments (search for double β decay and dark matter particles, measurements of neutrino fluxes from different sources, search for hypothetical nuclear and subnuclear processes, low background α, β, γ spectrometry) require extremely low background of a detector. Scintillators are widely used to search for rare events both as conventional scintillation detectors and as cryogenic s...

P. Gorla Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67010, Assergi (L’Aquila), Italy Abstract We present the results obtained in the development of scintillating Double Beta Decay bolometers. Several Mo and Cd based crystals were tested with the bolometric technique. The scintillation light was measured through a second independent bolometer. A 140 g CdWO4 crystal was run in a 417 h live time measu...

The properties of a new scintillation detector system for use in dosimetry of high-energy beams in radiotherapy have been measured. The most important properties of these detectors are their hgh spatial resolution and their nearly water-equivalence. Measurements have shown that they have excellent reproducibility and stability, and a linear response versus dose-rate. It is also shown that they ...

Recent advances in collimator design and detector size, combined with radiopharmaceuticals having high photon yield, have resulted in diagnostic tests that may deliver photon fluxes in excess of the levels at which scintillation cameras can process the data. Moreover, these high rates of photon input may im pair certain parameters of image quality (1 ,2). For certain diagnostic tests, such as c...

The timing performance of scintillation detectors is ultimately limited by photon counting statistics. In fact, photon counting statistics form a dominant contribution to the overall timing resolution of many state-of-the-art detectors. A common approach to investigate this contribution is to calculate the variance in the registration times of individual scintillation photons within the photose...

The possible use of a Spherical Proportional Counter for the search neutrinoless double beta decay is investigated in R2D2 R&D project. Dual charge and scintillation light readout may improve detector performance. Tests were carried out with pure argon at 1.1 bar using 6x6 mm2 silicon photomultiplier. Scintillation was used first time to trigger spherical proportional counter. measured drift ex...