Ja. Hanlon et Hj. Ziock, DESIGN EQUATIONS FOR SILICON DETECTOR LADDERS WITH HEAT GENERATED BY RADIATION-DAMAGE INDUCED LEAKAGE CURRENT, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 370(2-3), 1996, pp. 521-531
We find approximate analytical solutions to the problem of cooling a s
ilicon detector ladder which is internally heated by leakage current c
aused by radiation damage. The heat generation term has an approximate
ly exponential temperature dependence. Heat is removed by convection a
nd/or conduction to a heat sink. Design equations are derived which pr
event thermal runaway, and a wide range of parameter space for those e
quations is explored.