TUNNEL JUNCTION ARRAYS ON INSB - A HIGH-RESOLUTION CRYOGENIC DETECTOR FOR X-RAYS AND GAMMA-RAYS

被引:17
作者
GOLDIE, DJ
SWIFT, AM
BOOTH, NE
SALMON, GL
机构
[1] Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Nuclear Physics Laboratory, Oxford, OX1 3RH, Keble Road
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10.1016/0168-9002(94)90879-6
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TH7 [仪器、仪表];
学科分类号
0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;
摘要
We have measured the response of a series array of superconducting tunnel junctions to the non-equilibrium phonons generated in single crystals of InSb by nuclear particle interactions at a temperature of 100 mK The results demonstrate an energy resolution below 210 +/- 60 eV (FWHM) for photons of energy 22.1 keV after subtracting the electronic noise. The detector response has high linearity for the detection of photons with energies in the range 3 to 662 keV.
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