Modeling of the saturation current of a fission chamber taking into account the distorsion of electric field due to space charge effects

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 433, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 673-682

  Poujade, O ^a   Lebrun, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b IRFM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRIC DISTORTION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC SPACE CHARGE; IONIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEUTRON DETECTORS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

CHARGE COLLECTION EFFECTS; ELECTRIC FIELD DISTORTION; FISSION CHAMBER; FISSION FRAGMENT; ION PAIR; SATURATION CURRENT;

IONIZATION CHAMBERS;

EID: 0033339611     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(99)00386-1     Document Type: Article

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