An Air Scintillator

摘要

A method for bremsstrahlung dosimetry by air luminescence at high-power pulsed electron accelerators is considered. Light emitted in an air scintillator is focused by the lens at the tip of a quartz optical fiber and transmitted to the photocathode of a photomultiplier tube. The sensitivity of the measuring channel is determined using a standard ribbon lamp. Bremsstrahlung pulses producing an exposure of 0.18 C/kg at the bremsstrahlung beam axis in a ～20-ns time interval are detected at the ЛИУ-30 electron accelerator with a high accuracy. This exposure corresponds to an absorbed dose rate, integrated over the beam diameter, of 7.5 × 10~7 Gy m/s.