A FAST DETECTOR FOR ATOMS AND IONS

Authors
HAYTON DA PEART B
Citation
Da. Hayton et B. Peart, A FAST DETECTOR FOR ATOMS AND IONS, Measurement science & technology, 5(3), 1994, pp. 247-250
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Instument & Instrumentation",Engineering
Journal title
Measurement science & technology → ACNP
ISSN journal
09570233
Volume
5
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
247 - 250
Database
ISI
SICI code
0957-0233(1994)5:3<247:AFDFAA>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
A detector has been developed that has an efficiency greater than 95% for a variety of ions that strike it with energies of more than a few keV. The efficiency is constant over the large entrance aperture (2.5 cm diameter) and for particle fluxes up to 4 x 10(4) s-1. An important feature is the ability to identify correlated pairs of particles that arrive as little as 30 ns apart, even in the presence of large, uncor related backgrounds.