Directional detector of gamma rays

Patent · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1979

OSTI ID:863274

Cox, Samson A ^[1]; Levert, Francis E ^[2]

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1. Downers Grove, IL
2. Chicago, IL

A directional detector of gamma rays comprises a strip of an electrical cuctor of high atomic number backed with a strip of a second electrical conductor of low atomic number. These elements are enclosed within an electrical conductor that establishes an electrical ground, maintains a vacuum enclosure and screens out low-energy gamma rays. The detector exhibits a directional sensitivity marked by an increased output in the favored direction by a factor of ten over the output in the unfavored direction.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL
• Assignee: United States of America as represented by Department of Energy (Washington, DC)
• Patent Number(s): US 4136282
• OSTI ID: 863274
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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