Thin−film breakdown counter of fission fragments
- 1 April 1975
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 46 (4) , 1484-1488
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.321798
Abstract
A new kind of detector of heavy fission fragments is described. The detector is a thin−film capacitor in which electrical breakdowns are nonshorting. The detection is based on the counting of breakdowns which arise when heavy fission fragments hit the capacitor. These breakdowns occur at fields distinctly lower than those due to the application of the field only. The lowering of the breakdown field is discussed considering the thermal or electronic effects for silicon dioxide detectors. The detectors offer immediate information on the magnitude of particle fluxes and may possibly serve to identify the particles.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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