The High-Resolution Streamer Chamber

Abstract

As the contents of this issue of PHYSICS TODAY illustrate, the family of particle detectors that depend on electron multiplication processes in gases is a large and important one. Although the high‐pressure streamer chamber is a relatively new development, it is a direct outgrowth of one of the branches of this family tree. (The reader interested in the “genealogy,” as well as the physical and technical principles, will appreciate the excellent book by Peter Rice‐Evans.)