Comparitive Ionization Energies for Protons, Deuterons and Alpha Particles in High Purity Germanium and Si(Li) Nuclear Radiation Detectors
- 1 February 1975
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
- Vol. 22 (1), 145-148
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tns.1975.4327632
Abstract
Relative measurements of the average energy, ε, expended for electron-hole pair generation in silicon and high purity germanium detectors were made using 10 to 19 MeV proton, deuteron and alpha particle beams. The results show that ε is constant for different particles in high purity germanium detectors but not in silicon detectors. A model is presented which could explain both our results and those published in the literature.Keywords
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