Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

A LIQUID-FILLED PROPORTIONAL COUNTER

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters

We report properties of single-wire proportional chambers and multiple-wire ionization chambers filled with liquid xenon. Proportional multiplication is seen for anode fields > 10{sup 6} volts/cm (anode-cathode voltage> 1 kV for a 3.5-{micro}-diam anode wire). The efficiency for detecting ionizing radiation is {approx} 100%. The time resolution of the chambers is {+-} 10{sup -7} sec. We attained a spatial resolution of {+-} 15 {micro} with a multiwire ionization chamber, considerably better than that of any other real-time particle detector.

Research Organization:
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
Physics Division
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231
OSTI ID:
942298
Report Number(s):
UCRL-20811
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Similar Records

HIGH-RESOLUTION LIQUID-FILLED MULTI-WIRE CHAMBERS FOR USE INHIGH-ENERGY BEAMS
Technical Report · Sat Mar 31 19:00:00 EST 1973 · OSTI ID:932513

Position-sensitive gas proportional chambers
Conference · Fri Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1976 · OSTI ID:5374482

Position-sensitive gas proportional chambers
Journal Article · Tue Jan 31 23:00:00 EST 1978 · IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.; (United States) · OSTI ID:6386808