Selection Criteria for Continuous Channel Electron Multipliers in Space Applications

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Apr 1982

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Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 83, Issue 1-2, pp. 3-14

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Criteria for selecting continuous channel electron multipliers were applied to fifteen Mullard units without significantly affecting their overall lifetime. The gain fatigue vs accumulated counts, the change of the pulse height distribution during lifetime, the gain degradation vs count rates as well as the gain vs operating voltage and the resolution vs operating voltage have been investigated using a tritium source. The results provide several criteria to determine good, marginal and poor multipliers. From all tested devices 25% had a very low gain and did not operate satisfactory at the end of their lifetime investigations (4×109 accumulated counts). 40% of all devices could be classified as good multipliers. Their main characteristic was a gain recovery phenomenon after 3×109 accumulated counts with a progressive gain stabilizing. Multipliers classified as marginal exhibited some unexpected behaviour during the lifetime but a gain recovery phase and gain plateau region could be identified. Furthermore, the relative efficiency of the multipliers vs electron energy as a function of the operating voltage has been measured by using a near monoenergetic electron beam.

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