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BS IEC 60462:2010

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Nuclear instrumentation. Photomultiplier tubes for scintillation counting. Test procedures
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Hardcopy , PDF

Language(s)

English

Published date

09-30-2010

FOREWORD
1 Scope and object
2 Normative references
3 Terms, definitions, symbols and abbreviations
4 Test conditions
5 Test procedures for photomultiplier characteristics
Annex A (informative) - Light sources
Annex B (informative) - Definition of the PMT
        spectrometric constant
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Gives test procedures for photomultiplier tubes (PMT) for scintillation and Cherenkov detectors.

This International Standard establishes test procedures for photomultiplier tubes (PMT) for scintillation and Cherenkov detectors.

This standard is applicable to photomultiplier tubes for scintillation and Cherenkov detectors.

Photomultiplier tubes are extensively used in scintillation and Cherenkov counting, both in the detection and analysis of ionizing radiation and for other applications. For such uses, various characteristics are of particular importance and require additional tests to those conducted to measure the general characteristics of PMT. This has made desirable the establishment of standard test procedures so that measurements of these specific characteristics may have the same significance to all manufacturers and users.

The tests described in this standard for PMT to be used in scintillation detectors are supplementary to those tests described in IEC 60306-4, which covers the basic characteristics commonly requiring specification for photomultiplier tubes.

This recommendation is not intended to imply that all tests and procedures described herein are mandatory for every application, but only that those tests carried out on PMT for scintillation and Cherenkov detectors should be performed in accordance with the procedures given in this standard.

Committee
NCE/2
DevelopmentNote
Supersedes 09/30174900 DC. (09/2010)
DocumentType
Standard
Pages
28
PublisherName
British Standards Institution
Status
Current
Supersedes

Standards Relationship
IEC 60462:2010 Identical

IEC 60050-394:2007 International Electrotechnical Vocabulary (IEV) - Part 394: Nuclear instrumentation - Instruments, systems, equipment and detectors
IEC 60306-4:1971 Measurement of photosensitive devices. Part 4: Methods of measurement for photo-multipliers
IEC 62372:2006 Nuclear instrumentation - Housed scintillators - Measurement methods of light output and intrinsic resolution
ISO/IEC Guide 98-3:2008 Uncertainty of measurement — Part 3: Guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement (GUM:1995)

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