Title :
The Statistics of Gas Gain in Penning Mixtures
Author_Institution :
Outokumpu Oy, Institute of Physics SF-02200 Espoo 20, Finland
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;
Journal_Title :
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TNS.1979.4329630
