Calorimetric Calibration of an Ionization Chamber for Determination of X-ray Total Beam Energy
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An X-ray calorimeter has been used to determine the to ta l energy t ransported by bremsstrahlung beams with maximum photon energies between 18.2 and 170 Mev. The measurements from two experiments have been used to calibrate an aluminum ionization chamber for routine determinations of to ta l beam energy. The calibrations are compared with calibrations of the same chamber made with a scintillation spectrometer, and with calorimetric calibrations made in other laboratories.
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