On a special type multiwire counter for particle detection and ionisation measurement

doi:10.1016/0029-554X(71)90379-X

Nuclear Instruments and Methods

Volume 95, Issue 2, 15 August 1971, Pages 285-287

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Abstract

A “massless” particle detector has been developed. It is a multiwire counter, in which all counting wires are connected to the same preamplifier. It has a low stopping power and a good efficiency. Counters of this kind can be made with large sensitive areas for a fairly low price. They are useful as trigger or hodoscope counters in particular for the detection of low energy particles. Measuring the primary ionisation in the counter as a function of particle momentum or residual range yields information helpful for particle separation.

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Inexpensive large area counters using multi-wire proportional chambers
1972, Nuclear Instruments and Methods
Multi-wire proportional chambers are used as a replacement for conventional large area plastic scintillators. For applications which can tolerate larger time jitters than are obtained from scintillators, the proportional chamber is less expensive and more flexible, particularly in magnetic fields. A technique is described which permits inexpensive mechanical construction by means of lamination of frames from thin sheets. This method of frame construction should be useful for spark chamber frames as well as proportional chambers because it provides rigid, flat frames with no machining.

^∗: Present address: CERN, Geneva.

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Nuclear Instruments and Methods

On a special type multiwire counter for particle detection and ionisation measurement

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Nucl. Instr. and Meth.

Inexpensive large area counters using multi-wire proportional chambers