Feasibility of a detector for nuclear radiation based on superconducting grains
作者:
W. Seidel,
L. Oberauer,
F. v. Feilitzsch,
期刊:
Review of Scientific Instruments
(AIP Available online 1987)
卷期:
Volume 58,
issue 8
页码: 1471-1476
ISSN:0034-6748
年代: 1987
DOI:10.1063/1.1139383
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
We studied the sensitivity of a radiation detector based on metastable superconducting grains. Radiation is detected by the phase transition from the superconducting to the normal‐conducting state of a grain induced by energy absorption. Metastable states of tin and cadmium grains were tested. The phase boundary of a large sample of grains was found to be broadened due to variations of the phase diagrams of single grains. Therefore, the use of superconductors with a low critical temperatureTcand an operation temperature close toTcseems advisable to increase the sensitivity of the detector. For Cd grains a sensitivity normalized to the grain volume of 12 eV/&mgr;m3was achieved for the detection of &ggr; rays. These grains showed an instability in the superconducting to normal‐conducting phase transition for temperatures below 350 mK.
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