A Real-Time Energy Detector for Relativistic Charged Particles (Physics)

目的是研制一种探测器来测量超相对论性带电粒子的能量。当一个带电粒子穿过一堆薄膜（跃迁辐射）时，通过测量x射线的角度分布，探测器的效率和能量测定可以比简单地计算光子的数量得到提高。加州蒙特雷海军研究生院的直线加速器将用于探索分离跃迁辐射和非相干辐射的角分辨率。相干辐射将成为超相对论电子探测的x射线源。

The objective is to develop a detector to measure the energy of ultra-relativistic charged particles. By measuring the angular distribution of x-rays emitted when a charged particle passes through a stack of foils (transition radiation) the efficiency of the detector and energy determination can be improved over simply counting the number of photons. The linear accelerator at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monteray California will be used to explore the angular resolution to separate the transition radiation from the incoherent radiation. The coherent radiation would be a source of x-rays for ultra-relativistic electron detection.