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Timing Measurements with Scintillation Pulses

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Physics of Fast Processes in Scintillators

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This chapter addresses the evolution of the scintillation pulse shape under different conditions for the energy deposit, the evaluation of the precision in timing measurements at optical pulses of different forms and the specificity of the time resolution in scintillators of different tapes.

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Korzhik, M., Tamulaitis, G., Vasil’ev, A.N. (2020). Timing Measurements with Scintillation Pulses. In: Physics of Fast Processes in Scintillators. Particle Acceleration and Detection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21966-6_2

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