Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1879868 | Applied Radiation and Isotopes | 2006 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Applications such as environment monitoring implying alpha emitters activity measurement associated with isotope identification, require high-energy resolution detectors. Conventional silicon detectors are inexpensive therefore widely used, although intrinsically limited in energy resolution. Thermal detection principle of cryogenic detectors introduces a breakthrough in alpha particle measurement. For the first time, spectra with 5.5 keV FWHM energy resolution have been obtained for several external alpha emitting sources using a copper–germanium bolometer specially developed for alpha spectrometry.
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Authors
E. Leblanc, N. Coron, J. Leblanc, P. de Marcillac, J. Bouchard, J. Plagnard,