Directional detector of gamma rays
Abstract
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.
- Inventors:
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- Downers Grove, IL
- Chicago, IL
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 863274
- Patent Number(s):
- 4136282
- Assignee:
- United States of America as represented by Department of Energy (Washington, DC)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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G - PHYSICS G01 - MEASURING G01T - MEASUREMENT OF NUCLEAR OR X-RADIATION
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- directional; detector; gamma; rays; comprises; strip; electrical; cuctor; atomic; conductor; elements; enclosed; establishes; ground; maintains; vacuum; enclosure; screens; low-energy; exhibits; sensitivity; marked; increased; output; favored; direction; factor; unfavored; electrical ground; gamma rays; gamma ray; electrical conductor; vacuum enclosure; energy gamma; directional detector; /250/
Citation Formats
Cox, Samson A, and Levert, Francis E. Directional detector of gamma rays. United States: N. p., 1979.
Web.
Cox, Samson A, & Levert, Francis E. Directional detector of gamma rays. United States.
Cox, Samson A, and Levert, Francis E. Mon .
"Directional detector of gamma rays". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/863274.
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title = {Directional detector of gamma rays},
author = {Cox, Samson A and Levert, Francis E},
abstractNote = {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.},
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place = {United States},
year = {1979},
month = {1}
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