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Silicon Detector System for X-Ray Pulse Calorimetry of Laser-Produced Plasmas*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

J. H. McQuaid ,
C. E. Violet  and
J. Petruzzi
J. H. McQuaid
Affiliation:
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, University of California, Livermore, California 94550
C. E. Violet
Affiliation:
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, University of California, Livermore, California 94550
J. Petruzzi
Affiliation:
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, University of California, Livermore, California 94550
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Abstract

The instrumentation for measuring x-ray yields from laser produced plasma is described. This new type of calorimeter is composed of a silicon detector, a charge-sensitive preamplifier and an analog-to-digital readout scheme for multiplexing up to ten detector outputs.

X-rays interacting with the detector produce hole-electron pairs in proportion to the total energy lost in the detector (∼1012 eV). In this application the detector can be characterized as a solid-state ionization chamber. The detector signal is coupled to a charge-sensitive preamplifier which generates a voltage pulse proportional to the x-ray energy absorbed. In this way the x-ray energy is measured by “direct conversion” rather than measuring the temperature rise due to an energy flux.

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Research Article
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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 18: Twenty-Third Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 7-9, 1974 , 1974 , pp. 213 - 221
Copyright
Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1974

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This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and by the Defense Nuclear Agency.

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