Gas Counters
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Abstract
Gas counters for the detection of radiation were developed in 1908 by Geiger in Rutherford’s laboratory. These counters became practical for the measurement of radiation shortly thereafter, even though scintillants were for a long time in use for the detection of radiation. The original Geiger counter was similar in construction to that of Fig. 3.1. It had an outer cylindrical electrode and an inner wire electrode with a potential difference applied between them. Geiger found that, when a radiation was stopped in the counter, a current flowed through the electrodes which was detectable with an electrometer of “moderate sensibility.”
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Incident Radiation Alpha Particle Ionization Chamber Pulse Height Proportional Counter
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