Development of high pressure proportional counters

Pier Oddone; Garth Smith; Anna Green; Peter Nemethy; Laszlo Baksay; Louis Schick; Edward Gerard Heflin

doi:10.1016/0168-9002(86)91223-4

Development of high pressure proportional counters

Pier Oddone, Garth Smith, Anna Green, Peter Nemethy, Laszlo Baksay, Louis Schick, Edward Gerard Heflin

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Abstract

We have begun to investigate the possibility of operating gas counters at high pressures. In a first step we were able to operate cylindrical chambers up to 430 atm with a gas gain of about 300 using a mixture of 92% Ar and 8% CH₄.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	458-460
Number of pages	3
Journal	Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A
Volume	252
Issue number	2-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0168-9002(86)91223-4
State	Published - Dec 1 1986

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Instrumentation

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