Bremsstrahlung studies with conducting and non-conducting radiators

Conference · Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1984 · IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6734023

Singh, M; Powar, M S

Total bremsstrahlung intensities emanating from targets of conducting and non-conducting materials have been measured by completely stopping the beta radiations in the targets. While confirming the approximately linear variation of bremsstrahlung intensity with target atomic number the values of effective atomic numbers for multi-component systems obtained from the present measurements agree with those calculated from their chemical compositions. It is found that the target bremsstrahlung increases more rapidly with beta end-point energy than the internal bremsstrahlung from the beta emitters. Therefore it will be more appropriate to use beta emitters with high end-point energies and targets of dielectrics with high effective atomic numbers in studies of bremsstrahlung attenuation with charge build up.

• Research Organization: Nuclear Science Laboratories, Department of Physics, Punjabi University, Patiala-147 002, India
• OSTI ID: 6734023
• Report Number(s): CONF-831015-
• Journal Information: IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.; (United States), Vol. 31:1; Conference: Nuclear science symposium, San Francisco, CA, USA, 19 Oct 1983
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
BETA PARTICLES
BREMSSTRAHLUNG
TARGETS
CHARGED-PARTICLE TRANSPORT
ATOMIC NUMBER
ATTENUATION
BETA SOURCES
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
DIELECTRIC MATERIALS
ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY
ENERGY ABSORPTION
ENERGY LEVELS
LUMINOSITY
MATERIALS
MATERIALS TESTING
MEASURING METHODS
STOPPING POWER
ABSORPTION
CHARGED PARTICLES
ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
OPTICAL PROPERTIES
PARTICLE SOURCES
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
RADIATION SOURCES
RADIATION TRANSPORT
RADIATIONS
TESTING
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