GASEOUS SCINTILLATION COUNTER
Abstract
A gaseous excitation counter for detecting the presence amd measuring the energy of subatomic particles and electromagnetic radiation is described. The counter includes a gas-tight chamber filled with an elemental gas capable of producing ultra-violet excitation quanta when irradiated with subatomic particles and electromagnetic radiation. The gas has less than one in a thousand parts ultra-violet absorbing contamination. When nuclear radiation ps present the ultra-violet light produced by the gas strikes a fluorescent material within the counter, responsive to produce visible excitation quanta, and photo-sensitive counting means detect the visible emission.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 4227670
- Patent Number(s):
- 2884529
- Assignee:
- U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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G - PHYSICS G01 - MEASURING G01T - MEASUREMENT OF NUCLEAR OR X-RADIATION
- NSA Number:
- NSA-13-022364
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-59
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- INSTRUMENTS; ABSORPTION; CONVERSION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EXCITATION; FLUORESCENCE; GASES; IMPURITIES; IRRADIATION; LIGHT; MEASURED VALUES; PATENT; PHOTONS; RADIATION DETECTORS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION
Citation Formats
Eggler, C, and Huddleston, C M. GASEOUS SCINTILLATION COUNTER. United States: N. p., 1959.
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Eggler, C, & Huddleston, C M. GASEOUS SCINTILLATION COUNTER. United States.
Eggler, C, and Huddleston, C M. Tue .
"GASEOUS SCINTILLATION COUNTER". United States.
@article{osti_4227670,
title = {GASEOUS SCINTILLATION COUNTER},
author = {Eggler, C and Huddleston, C M},
abstractNote = {A gaseous excitation counter for detecting the presence amd measuring the energy of subatomic particles and electromagnetic radiation is described. The counter includes a gas-tight chamber filled with an elemental gas capable of producing ultra-violet excitation quanta when irradiated with subatomic particles and electromagnetic radiation. The gas has less than one in a thousand parts ultra-violet absorbing contamination. When nuclear radiation ps present the ultra-violet light produced by the gas strikes a fluorescent material within the counter, responsive to produce visible excitation quanta, and photo-sensitive counting means detect the visible emission.},
doi = {},
journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {1959},
month = {4}
}
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