Gas amplification and ionization coefficients in isobutane and argon-isobutane mixtures at low gas pressures

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 219-244

  Krajcar Bronić, Ines ^a,b   Grosswendt, Bernd ^b  

^a RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^b PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; BINARY MIXTURES; BUTANE; COMPOSITION EFFECTS; CURVE FITTING; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTONS; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

GAS AMPLIFICATION FACTOR; ISOBUTANE; TOWNSEND IONIZATION COEFFICIENT;

IONIZATION OF GASES;

EID: 0032119753     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-583X(98)00286-9     Document Type: Article

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