DocumentCode
835685
Title
The Statistics of Gas Gain in Penning Mixtures
Author
Sipilä, Heikki
Author_Institution
Outokumpu Oy, Institute of Physics SF-02200 Espoo 20, Finland
Volume
26
Issue
1
fYear
1979
Firstpage
181
Lastpage
185
Abstract
The electron multiplication and its statistics in the Penning mixtures in the uniform electric field is studied. The variance of the gas amplification is calculated for the Ne-Ar mixtures (0.1 % and 1 % Ar) as a function of the electric field strength. The effect of the diffusion of the metastable atoms on the statistics of the multiplication is shown to be small in weak electric fields.
Keywords
Argon; Atomic measurements; Electrons; Gases; Ionization; Metastasis; Physics; Probability; Radiation detectors; Statistics;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9499
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TNS.1979.4329630
Filename
4329630
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