Some notes on collimated compton spectra

✍ Scribed by D.G.E. Martin; G. Parry

• Book ID: 104163703
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1952
• Weight: 157 KB
• Volume: 18
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0031-8914
• DOI: 10.1016/s0031-8914(52)80192-2

✦ Synopsis

This paper discusses the arrangement of a 180 ° beta-spectrometer to give a low background for the study of Compton electrons ejected from a target by a collimated beam of gamma-rays.

The effects of scattering at those spectrometer wails which do not lie within the shadows cast by its defining slits have been investigated. The importance of scattering of electrons at these walls is shown.

An arrangement giving a low background counting rate which varies only slowly with energy setting is described.