https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-024-05133-y
Regular Article
Analytical solutions to intensity calculation in scintillation detectors and their application to the scintillation flash coordinate reconstruction
1
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (National Research University), Dolgoprudnyi, 141700, Moscow Region, Russia
2
Kotelnikov Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 11-7 Mokhovaya, 125009, Moscow, Russia
Received:
29
May
2023
Accepted:
23
March
2024
Published online:
30
April
2024
Detectors with continuous scintillator and matrix of photomultipliers attached are widely used in modern particle physics and various medical tomographs. There are two common ways to calculate the coordinates of the scintillation flash via photomultipliers energy outcome: Anger’s method and Monte Carlo simulations. In this article, we derive an analytical solution for the computation of the energy outcome from several photomultipliers built into the bottom face of the scintillation camera with a continuous scintillator shaped as a rectangular parallelepiped. The lateral faces of the scintillation camera are considered specular reflectors with reflective indexes 
or 0. The analytical solution is used as a reference point for the scintillation flash coordinate reconstruction. The achieved results are similar to those the Monte Carlo simulation provides, but require less computational time.
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