The proportional counter is a type of gaseous ionization detector device used to measure particles of ionizing radiation. The key feature is its ability...

A wire chamber or multi-wire proportional chamber is a type of proportional counter that detects charged particles and photons and can give positional...

no data of scientific value. A triple-coincidence omnidirectional proportional counter telescope was used to observe protons (with E>75 MeV) and electrons...

A Geiger counter (/ˈɡaɪɡər/, GY-gər; also known as a Geiger–Müller counter or G-M counter) is an electronic instrument used for detecting and measuring...

of gaseous ionization detectors are 1) ionization chambers, 2) proportional counters, and 3) Geiger–Müller tubes All of these have the same basic design...

A scintillation counter is an instrument for detecting and measuring ionizing radiation by using the excitation effect of incident radiation on a scintillating...

Monitor, the High-Energy X-ray Timing Experiment (HEXTE) and the Proportional Counter Array. The RXTE observed X-rays from black holes, neutron stars,...

Proportional representation (PR) refers to any type of electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected...

same principle as the Geiger-Müller counter, but uses a lower operating voltage. All X-ray proportional counters consist of a windowed gas cell. Often...

with three focal plane instruments: two German Position Sensitive Proportional Counters (PSPC) and the US-supplied High Resolution Imager (HRI). The X-ray...

Station) image scanning infrared television system on Pioneer 1), a proportional counter for radiation measurements, an ionization chamber to measure radiation...

capable of ~2 arcsec spatial resolution. The Imaging Proportional Counter (IPC) was a proportional counter covering the entire focal plane. The IPC was sensitive...

a pulse output as in the cases of the Geiger–Müller tube or the proportional counter. Referring to the accompanying ion-pair collection graph, it can...

and detection are a single operation, as already mentioned above. Proportional counters or various types of solid-state detectors (PIN diode, Si(Li), Ge(Li)...

dosimeter) Gaseous ionization detector Geiger counter Ionization chamber Proportional counter Scintillation counter Semiconductor detector Commonly used detectors...

Concentrator Spectrometer (MECS) High Pressure Gas Scintillation Proportional Counter (HPGSPC) Phoswich Detector System (PDS) Wide Field Camera (WFC) The...

Mixed-member proportional representation (MMP or MMPR) is a type of representation provided by some mixed electoral systems which combine local winner-take-all...

application of an electric field. The Geiger–Müller tube and the proportional counter both use a phenomenon known as a Townsend avalanche to multiply the...

threshold voltage of the MOSFET. This change in threshold voltage is proportional to radiation dose. Alternate high-k gate dielectrics like hafnium dioxide...

can easily measure dose but cannot measure counts. However the Geiger counter can measure counts but not the energy of the radiation, so a technique...

chamber Geiger counter Geiger–Müller tube Ionization chamber Gaseous ionization detectors Neutron detection Particle detector Proportional counter Scintillator...

four scientific instruments: A triple coincidence omnidirectional proportional counter telescope to detect solar particles and observe terrestrial trapped...

physicist and a pioneer of cosmic ray research. He invented the wire proportional counter particle detectors. Serge Alexander Korff was born at June 5,1906...

immediately detectable by human senses, so instruments such as Geiger counters are used to detect and measure it. However, very high energy particles...

of about −80 °C by thermoelectric cooling. The Large Area X-ray Proportional Counter (LAXPC) covers X-ray timing and low-resolution spectral studies over...

benzene. Like gas counters, liquid scintillation counters require shielding and anticoincidence counters. For both the gas proportional counter and liquid scintillation...

radioactive particulate monitoring Dosimeter Geiger counter Ion chamber Scintillation counter Proportional counter Radiation monitoring Semiconductor detector...

radioactive particulate monitoring Dosimeter Geiger counter Ion chamber Scintillation counter Proportional counter Radiation monitoring Semiconductor detector...

5 MeV. It uses three telescopes, which cover the ecliptic plane. A proportional counter studies the X-rays from the Sun. Developed by the Max Planck Institute...

radioactive particulate monitoring Dosimeter Geiger counter Ion chamber Scintillation counter Proportional counter Radiation monitoring Semiconductor detector...