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Title: Radiation detector

Abstract

Apparatus is provided for detecting radiation such as gamma rays and x-rays generated in backscatter Moessbauer effect spectroscopy and x-ray spectrometry, which has a large window for detecting radiation emanating over a wide solid angle from a specimen and which generates substantially the same output pulse height for monoenergetic radiation that passes through any portion of the detection chamber. The apparatus includes a substantially toroidal chamber with conductive walls forming a cathode, and a wire anode extending in a circle within the chamber with the anode lying closer to the inner side of the toroid which has the least diameter than to the outer side. The placement of the anode produces an electric field, in a region close to the anode, which has substantially the same gradient in all directions extending radially from the anode, so that the number of avalanche electrons generated by ionizing radiation is independent of the path of the radiation through the chamber.

Inventors:
Issue Date:
OSTI Identifier:
6088286
Assignee:
TIC; ERA-07-004853; EDB-82-003512
DOE Contract Number:  
W-7405-ENG-48
Resource Type:
Patent
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; 46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; MOESSBAUER EFFECT; BACKSCATTERING; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY; ANODES; CATHODES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; GAMMA RADIATION; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; RADIATION DETECTORS; SPECTROSCOPY; TOROIDAL CONFIGURATION; X RADIATION; ANNULAR SPACE; CONFIGURATION; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; IONIZING RADIATIONS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; RADIATIONS; SCATTERING; SPACE; 400104* - Spectral Procedures- (-1987); 440100 - Radiation Instrumentation

Citation Formats

Fultz, B T. Radiation detector. United States: N. p., 1980. Web.
Fultz, B T. Radiation detector. United States.
Fultz, B T. Fri . "Radiation detector". United States.
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abstractNote = {Apparatus is provided for detecting radiation such as gamma rays and x-rays generated in backscatter Moessbauer effect spectroscopy and x-ray spectrometry, which has a large window for detecting radiation emanating over a wide solid angle from a specimen and which generates substantially the same output pulse height for monoenergetic radiation that passes through any portion of the detection chamber. The apparatus includes a substantially toroidal chamber with conductive walls forming a cathode, and a wire anode extending in a circle within the chamber with the anode lying closer to the inner side of the toroid which has the least diameter than to the outer side. The placement of the anode produces an electric field, in a region close to the anode, which has substantially the same gradient in all directions extending radially from the anode, so that the number of avalanche electrons generated by ionizing radiation is independent of the path of the radiation through the chamber.},
doi = {},
journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {1980},
month = {12}
}

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