Castro P, Garca-Vicente F, Mnguez C, Floriano A, Sevillano D, Prez L, Torres JJ. 125 0 obj The calibration of parallel-plate electron ionization chambers at NPL for use with the IPEM 2003 code of practice: summary data. In this study, we propose a methodology for temperature determination of the temperature and pressure correction factor, PTP, by analyzing the temperature distribution of the modeled ionization chamber taking into account the thermal effect of a water phantom on neighboring materials in the process. #AddbUKq4@$( They are only practical for beams with energy of 2 MeV or less, and high stem leakage makes them unsuited to precise dosimetry. 83 0 obj
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A. That is not how a pressure chamber typically works. [1], Referring to the accompanying ion-pair collection graph, it can be seen that in the ion chamber operating region the charge of a collected ion pair is effectively constant over a range of applied voltage, as due to its relatively low electric field strength the ion chamber does not have any multiplication effect. The .gov means its official. The calculated P Careers. The following chamber types are commonly used. This site needs JavaScript to work properly. The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information The temporal response was studied at approximately +/- 10 degrees C from room temperature, i.e., 10 degrees C and 30 degrees C. Temporal results show that all chambers reach quick equilibrium response within < 2 minutes of submersion in water. 1^\Pp{vkyIm_U)SUlX6Z'dS endstream
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