Moderation and diffusion of positrons in tungsten meshes and foils

The efficiency of tungsten meshes and thin foils for moderation of fast positrons from 22Na has been investigated in transmission geometry and a fair agreement has been found with previous experimental results where directly comparable. For foils, the dependence on material thickness is found to be similar to the prediction of the Vehanen-Makinen diffusion model; however, the magnitude is 5–10 times lower. A broad consensus is observed between experiment and the results of a three-dimensional model developed in this work. For a given thickness, meshes are found to be generally better than foils by around a factor of 10 with a maximum efficiency ( ∼10−3) comparable to that achieved with thin single crystal foils, in accord with previous measurements and the results of the present model.

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