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THE radiolysis of ethylene has recently been extensively studied1–6 and the production of hydrogen has been increasingly used as a gas phase dosimeter, principally for irradiation with electrons and with gamma radiation. We have extended the previous dosimetry studies by measuring the yields of hydrogen from ethylene irradiated with about 1.5 MeV protons from a Van de Graaff accelerator and with 4.3 and 6.8 MeV helium ions from the Harwell Variable Energy Cyclotron, over a range of dose rates from about 6 × 1018 to 6 × 1020 eV g−1 sec−1.
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ANDERSON, A., BEST, J. Use of Ethylene as a Gas Phase Dosimeter for Accelerator Radiation. Nature 216, 576–577 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/216576a0
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