@article{f1207db3187b4f7e95e2b1773c98fe6c,
title = "Development of high pressure proportional counters",
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.",
author = "Pier Oddone and Garth Smith and Anna Green and Peter Nemethy and Laszlo Baksay and Louis Schick and Heflin, {Edward Gerard}",
note = "Funding Information: We would like to thank William Pope of LBL for the design of the pressure vessel. Useful comments by Dr William Wenzel, LBL and Dr Boris Dolgoshein, Moscow Institute of Engineering Physics are appreciated. This work was supported in part by the O'Hara Chemical Sciences Institute of the University of Dallas and the US Department of Energy.",
year = "1986",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1016/0168-9002(86)91223-4",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "252",
pages = "458--460",
journal = "Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A",
issn = "0168-9002",
publisher = "Elsevier B.V.",
number = "2-3",
}