SATURATION OF IONIZATION SIGNALS IN TMP AND TMS AT DIFFERENT ANGLES AND ELECTRIC-FIELDS

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作者
AUBERT, B
COLAS, J
DOBRZYNSKI, L
GHEZ, P
KRYN, D
LACOTTE, JC
MANSOULIE, B
MENDIBURU, JP
PRIPSTEIN, M
SALIN, P
TEIGER, J
机构
[1] UNIV CALIF BERKELEY LAWRENCE BERKELEY LAB,BERKELEY,CA 94720
[2] COLL FRANCE,F-75231 PARIS 05,FRANCE
[3] CENS,F-91190 GIF SUR YVETTE,FRANCE
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10.1016/0168-9002(90)90216-S
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TH7 [仪器、仪表];
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0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;
摘要
The saturation of ionization signals is measured for various electric fields and incidence angles in a double gap TMP chamber and a single gap TMS chamber with ionizing particles in the range of 1.5-12 MeV/cm. Birks' constant Kb in TMP is found to be high (greater than 0.1 cm/MeV) for normal incidence for electric fields in the range of 4.8-12 kV/cm but decreases by almost a factor of 3 at 50°. The same behaviour (large Kb and variation with incidence angle) is observed in TMS which exhibits also a Kb decrease of about a factor of 2 when the electric field is increased from 10 to 40 kV/cm. A simple analysis is performed on the collected charge in the TMP. © 1990.
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