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Title: Wire-chamber radiation detector with discharge control

Abstract

A wire chamber; radiation detector has spaced apart parallel electrodes and grids defining an ignition region in which charged particles or other ionizing radiations initiate brief localized avalanche discharges and defining an adjacent memory region in which sustained glow discharges are initiated by the primary discharges. Conductors of the grids at each side of the memory section extend in orthogonal directions enabling readout of the X-Y coordinates of locations at which charged particles were detected by sequentially transmitting pulses to the conductors of one grid while detecting transmissions of the pulses to the orthogonal conductors of the other grid through glow discharges. One of the grids bounding the memory region is defined by an array of conductive elements each of which is connected to the associated readout conductor through a separate resistance. The wire chamber avoids ambiguities and imprecisions in the readout of coordinates when large numbers of simultaneous or; near simultaneous charged particles have been detected. Down time between detection periods and the generation of radio frequency noise are also reduced.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
OSTI Identifier:
6495144
Application Number:
ON: DE83006883
Assignee:
ERA-08-018546; EDB-83-051608
DOE Contract Number:  
W-7405-ENG-48
Resource Type:
Patent
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; WIRE SPARK CHAMBERS; GLOW DISCHARGES; READOUT SYSTEMS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; COORDINATES; COUNTING RATES; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; MEMORY DEVICES; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; FILMLESS SPARK CHAMBERS; GAS TRACK DETECTORS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; RADIATION DETECTORS; SPARK CHAMBERS; 440104* - Radiation Instrumentation- High Energy Physics Instrumentation

Citation Formats

Perez-Mendez, V, and Mulera, T A. Wire-chamber radiation detector with discharge control. United States: N. p., 1982. Web.
Perez-Mendez, V, & Mulera, T A. Wire-chamber radiation detector with discharge control. United States.
Perez-Mendez, V, and Mulera, T A. Mon . "Wire-chamber radiation detector with discharge control". United States.
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abstractNote = {A wire chamber; radiation detector has spaced apart parallel electrodes and grids defining an ignition region in which charged particles or other ionizing radiations initiate brief localized avalanche discharges and defining an adjacent memory region in which sustained glow discharges are initiated by the primary discharges. Conductors of the grids at each side of the memory section extend in orthogonal directions enabling readout of the X-Y coordinates of locations at which charged particles were detected by sequentially transmitting pulses to the conductors of one grid while detecting transmissions of the pulses to the orthogonal conductors of the other grid through glow discharges. One of the grids bounding the memory region is defined by an array of conductive elements each of which is connected to the associated readout conductor through a separate resistance. The wire chamber avoids ambiguities and imprecisions in the readout of coordinates when large numbers of simultaneous or; near simultaneous charged particles have been detected. Down time between detection periods and the generation of radio frequency noise are also reduced.},
doi = {},
journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {1982},
month = {3}
}

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