A model of breakdown in parallel-plate detectors

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作者：

Fonte, P ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] LIP,COIMBRA,PORTUGAL

来源：

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE | 1996年 / 43卷 / 03期

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D O I：

10.1109/23.502307

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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

Parallel-plate avalanche chambers (PPAC's) have many desirable properties, such as a fast, large area particle detector, However, the maximum gain is limited by a form of violent breakdown that limits the usefulness of this detector, despite its other evident qualities, The exact nature of this phenomenon is not yet sufficiently clear to sustain possible improvements, A previous experimental study is complemented in the present work by a quantitative model of the breakdown phenomenon in PPAC's, based on the ''streamer theory.'' The model reproduces well the peculiar behavior of the external current observed in PPAC's and resistive-plate chambers, Other breakdown properties measured in PPAC's are also well reproduced.

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