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Correlation effects in sequential energy branching: an exactly solvable model of Fano statistics
Arsen V Subashiev1, Serge Luryi
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794-2350, USA. subashiev@ece.sunysb.edu
Abstract:
Correlation effects in the fluctuation of the number of particles in the process of energy branching by sequential impact ionizations are studied using an exactly soluble model of random parking on a line. The Fano factor F calculated in an uncorrelated final-state "shot-glass" model does not give an accurate answer even with the exact gap-distribution statistics. Allowing for the nearest-neighbor correlation effects gives a correction to F that brings F very close to its exact value. We discuss the implications of our results for energy resolution of semiconductor gamma detectors, where the value of F is of the essence. We argue that F is controlled by correlations in the cascade energy branching process and hence the widely used final-state model estimates are not reliable--especially in the practically relevant cases when the energy branching is terminated by competition between impact ionization and phonon emission.
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