A novel transition radiation detector utilizing superconducting microspheres for measuring the energy of relativistic high-energy charged particles
Abstract
A novel transition radiation detector (TRD) utilizing superheated superconducting microspheres of tin of 22-26, 27-32 and 32-38 μm in diameter, respectively, has been constructed which is capable of measuring accurately the energy of relativistic high-energy charged particles. The test has been conducted in a high-energy electron beam facility at the CERN PS in the energy range of 1-10 GeV showing an energy dependence of the TR X-ray photon produced and hence the value γ= E/ mc2 of the charged particle.
- Publication:
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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A
- Pub Date:
- March 2000
- DOI:
- 10.1016/S0168-9002(99)00979-1
- Bibcode:
- 2000NIMPA.441..479Y