Air Alpha Proportional Counter Insensitive to Atmospheric Humidity
作者:
A. M. R. Ferrari,
C. J. Borkowski,
期刊:
Review of Scientific Instruments
(AIP Available online 1962)
卷期:
Volume 33,
issue 10
页码: 1047-1050
ISSN:0034-6748
年代: 1962
DOI:10.1063/1.1717678
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
A conventional alpha proportional counter which uses air as the counter gas is sensitive to high relative humidity and generates spurious pulses that cannot be distinguished from actual alpha pulses. It has been found possible to operate such a counter satisfactorily at high relative humidity by passing a small current (∼15 mA) through the center wire. In this manner the center wire is heated and the relative humidity of the surrounding sheath of air is reduced sufficiently so that operation of the counter at high relative humidity is comparable to operation with dry air. Two different mechanisms are proposed for the formation of spurious pulses in such a counter at high relative humidity.
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