Electronic Resource
[S.l.]
:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Review of Scientific Instruments
58 (1987), S. 1471-1476
ISSN:
1089-7623
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
,
Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Control Technology
Notes:
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 temperature Tc and an operation temperature close to Tc seems advisable to increase the sensitivity of the detector. For Cd grains a sensitivity normalized to the grain volume of 12 eV/μm3 was achieved for the detection of γ rays. These grains showed an instability in the superconducting to normal-conducting phase transition for temperatures below 350 mK.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1139383
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