THE APPEARANCE OF A DISCHARGE IN A SPARK CHAMBER ALONG A PARTICLE TRACK

Technical Report · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1962

OSTI ID:4816373

Tyapkin, A A; Ts'ou, C ^[1]

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1. Tsou Chzhulyan

The conditions of obtaining a discharge inclined to the field along an ionizing particle track in a gas discharge chamber with electrodes of aluminum foil without dielectric layers between the electrodes and the working volume of the chamber were investigated. If an ionizing particle passed the chamber, a spark discharge occurred only at the place the particle passed up to 18 kv. However, with the absence of a particle, a spark discharge occurred between the middle electrode and the box wall beginning from 15 kv. The effectiveness of the registration of cosmic particles passing the chamber was measured with the amplitude of a 10 kv pulse supply with various delays of a high voltage pulse and with various voltages of the clearing field. Data indicated that a discharge in the chamber arises only from electrons produced by a cosmic particle. (M.C.G.)

• Research Organization: Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research, Dubna, U.S.S.R. Lab. of Nuclear Problems
• NSA Number: NSA-16-020638
• OSTI ID: 4816373
• Report Number(s): JINR-D-870
• Country of Publication: USSR
• Language: English

Related Subjects

ALUMINUM
COSMIC RADIATION
ELECTRIC DISCHARGES
ELECTRIC POTENTIAL
ELECTRODES
ELECTRONS
ENGINEERING AND EQUIPMENT
FOILS
IONIZATION CHAMBERS
PARTICLE TRACKS
PERFORMANCE