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Gaseous microdosimeters usually employ a Tissue-equivalent Gas (TEG), made of a hydrocarbon, carbon dioxide and nitrogen, in order to make similar the stopping power in this mixture and in the human soft tissue. Notwithstanding, regardless the chosen hydrocarbon, both theoretical and experimental data on the first Townsend ionization coefficient (α) in this mixtures are rare, even though the first TEG, which methane is the most abundant gas, was proposed in 1956 by Rossi and Failla and it has been widely employed since then. In this work, data on the parameter α in TEGs based on methane (CH4 – 64.4%, CO2 – 32.4%, and N2 – 3.2%) and butane’s isomers (C4H10 – 51.4%, CO2 – 42.3% e N2 – 6.3%) are presented for the first time in planar geometry in the gas densitynormalized electric field (E/N) range between 100 – 290 Td (1 Td = 10 -21 V.m 2 ). The adopted method is based on the Pulsed Townsend Technique, where the first Townsend coefficient can be determined by comparing the electric current in the avalanche mode and the primary ionization current, produced by an nitrogen laser beam incidence in a metallic electrode (cathode) of a parallel plate chamber, which the anode is a resistive electrode (ρ=2×10.m). The experimental setup, previously operated only at atmospheric pressure, was adapted to work also at low pressure (120 hPa), in order to increase the investigated E/N range. The validation of both method and detection system modifications was made by employing three TEGs’ components, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and methane, whose transport parameters are extensively studied. The parameter α in the methane-based TEG follows the behavior observed in pure methane. In the isobutane-based TEG, it is compatible with the first Townsend coefficient in carbon dioxide for E/N above 170 Td. The parameter α in the n-butane-based TEG lies between the obtained values of α in carbon dioxide and nitrogen. The experimental results, included in tabular form, agree with those from Magboltz 2 simulations within the experimental uncertainties.

Medidas do primeiro coeficiente de Townsend de ionização em misturas gasosas utilizadas em microdosimetria