Published May 1997 | Version v1
Journal article

Proportional quartz center for external x-ray detection

  • 1. Gosudarstvennyj Nauchnyj Tsentr Rossijskoj Federatsii Inst. Yadernykh Issledovanij RAN, Moscow (Russian Federation)

Description

A proportional counter (PC) is described in which the quartz is used as material for the wall. It permits totally to eliminate application of any hermetizing materials leading to substantial spread of the gas amplification (GA) along the anode wire and to resolution deterioration. The PC service life determined by 1% variation of the GA is not less 1.1 x 10- -3 C/cm or 1.5 x 10 10 pulses/cm from photons with the energy of 22 keV at GA equal 447. It is shown that GA value and resolution do not change practically in the temperature range from -50 up to +120 deg C. The 22.2 keV line resolution at the counting rate of 100 s -1 is 7.3%

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Additional titles

Original title (Russian)
Пропорциональный счетчик из кварцевого стекла для регистрации внешнего рентгеновского излучения

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Pribory i Tekhnika Ehksperimenta
Journal Issue
no.3
Journal Page Range
p. 146-147
ISSN
0032-8162
CODEN
PRTEAJ

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Notes
3 refs., 1 fig.