Elemental Analysis of Glass and Bakelite Electrodes Using PIXE Facility

Autor: Akash Kumar, J. S. Shahi, Shivcharan Verma, B. P. Mohanty, Manisha, Vipin Bhatnagar
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: XXII DAE High Energy Physics Symposium ISBN: 9783319731704
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-73171-1_137
Popis: The evolution of particle detectors dates back to the discovery of X-rays and radioactivity in 1890s. In detector history, the Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) are introduced in early 1980s. An RPC is a gaseous detector made up of two parallel electrodes having high resistivity like that of glass and bakelite. Currently several high energy physics experiments are using RPC-based detector system due to robustness and simplicity of construction. In each and every experiment, RPCs have to run continuously for several years. So, it demands an indepth characterization of the electrode materials. In the present study, an elemental analysis of locally available glass and bakelite samples is done using PIXE facility available at Panjab University Cyclotron, Chandigarh. PIXE measurements are done using 2.7 MeV proton beam incident on the electrode sample target. The constituent elements present in these electrode samples are reported.
Databáze: OpenAIRE