• DocumentCode
    816876
  • Title

    Optimization of Nanosecond Fission Ion Chambers for Reactor Physics Applications

  • Author

    Hill, N.W. ; Mihalczo, J.T. ; Allen, J.W. ; Chiles, M.M.

  • Author_Institution
    Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830
  • Volume
    22
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1975
  • Firstpage
    686
  • Lastpage
    690
  • Abstract
    An experimental investigation of the characteristics. of parallel plate fission chambers with fast (1-2 nsec rise time) current-pulse amplifiers has shown that chambers can be constructed which produce pulses with widths of 10 nsec and unambiguous separation of alpha particle pulses from the fission product pulses. Further improvement of this separation by geometric variations in chamber designs is discussed.
  • Keywords
    Alpha particles; Current measurement; Electric variables measurement; Inductors; Low-noise amplifiers; Mercury (metals); Physics; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse measurements; Space vector pulse width modulation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9499
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TNS.1975.4327729
  • Filename
    4327729