Starting Potentials of Geiger-Müller Counters
- 1 November 1936
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Review of Scientific Instruments
- Vol. 7 (11), 411-413
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1752046
Abstract
The starting potential of Geiger‐Müller counters filled with various pressures of air, helium, hydrogen, oxygen, argon, and two argon‐oxygen mixtures have been accurately determined for counters with oxidized copper cylinders 1.0 cm in diameter, and bare tungsten wires 0.0075 cm, 0.0125 cm, and 0.025 cm, diameter. Except at low pressures, Werner's equation fits the results fairly well, when suitable constants are chosen, for all these gases except helium. At low pressures, the starting potentials diminish as the size of the wire increases.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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- The use of a thermionic tetrode for voltage controlJournal of the Franklin Institute, 1932