Published September 1988 | Version v1
Journal article

Estimation of the electron lifetime in tetramethylsilane

  • 1. Waseda Univ., Tokyo (Japan). Science and Engineering Research Lab.
  • 2. Saitama Coll. of Health, Urawa (Japan)

Description

The variation of the collected charge with electric field in a diode-type ionization chamber is used to estimate the electron lifetime in tetramethylsilane (TMS). The primary ionizing particles are the 976 keV conversion electrons emitted from a 207Bi source. In the best purity sample of TMS we obtained an electron lifetime of 11±2 μs which corresponds to an attenuation length at 10 kV/cm, equal to 11 cm. The free ion yield at zero electric field, Gf(0), is determined to be 0.51±0.05. (orig.)

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Journal Title
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., Sect. A
Journal Volume
271
Journal Issue
3
Series
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., Sect. A.
Journal Page Range
464-470
ISSN
0168-9002
CODEN
NIMAE