NASA NTRS · 19760044005
Transition-radiation-Compton-scattering detector for very relativistic nuclei
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The paper presents the design and predicted performance of a large acceptance (2 sq m sr) transition-radiation-Compton-scattering detector system which can be used to measure energy spectra up to several thousand Gev/nucleon for nuclei with Z between 6 and 28, as well as up to 40,000 GeV/nucleon for He. The following circumstances made such a detector system practicable: (1) transition radiation output is proportional to the square of particle charge; (2) output varies at least as rapidly as the square of Lorentz factor over the range from several hundred to several thousand.
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Osborne, W. Z., Mack, J. E.. 1975-01-01. Transition-radiation-Compton-scattering detector for very relativistic nuclei. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19760044005
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