Author/Authors :
Tanaka، نويسنده , , M and Doke، نويسنده , , T and Hitachi، نويسنده , , A and Kato، نويسنده , , T and Kikuchi، نويسنده , , J and Masuda، نويسنده , , K and Murakami، نويسنده , , T and Nishikido، نويسنده , , F and Okada، نويسنده , , H and Ozaki، نويسنده , , K and Shibamura، نويسنده , , E and Yoshihira، نويسنده , , E، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
By the end of the 1980s, a number of experiments were conducted on the LET dependence of scintillation yields in liquid argon in an effort to confirm the maximum response for relativistic heavy ions over the LET region from 102 to 103 MeV cm2/g, identified as “flat-top response”. Based on the experimental results, a flat-top response would be expected in liquid xenon as well, since liquid xenon possesses an electronic structure identical to that of liquid argon. In order to confirm such expectation, a series of scintillation yield measurements were made in liquid xenon using heavy ion beams of C (400 MeV/n), Si (600 MeV/n), Ar (650 MeV/n) and Fe (500 MeV/n). As a result, the experiments have successfully confirmed the above-mentioned expectation.
