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A study of cathode aging and the threshold of autoemission from cathode wires in drift chambers

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Radiation aging of wire chambers and the effect exerted on it by various contaminants on the surface of a cathode wire are investigated. The threshold electric field strength that gives rise to autoelectronic emission has been measured for several cathode wire samples.

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  1. Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Akademika Lavrent’eva 11, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    V. E. Blinov & V. G. Prisekin

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Original Russian Text © V.E. Blinov, V.G. Prisekin, 2012, published in Pribory i Tekhnika Eksperimenta, 2012, No. 4, pp. 14–25.

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Blinov, V.E., Prisekin, V.G. A study of cathode aging and the threshold of autoemission from cathode wires in drift chambers. Instrum Exp Tech 55, 429–439 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020441212030013

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