Streamer Chamber Development

Abstract

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Historical track detectors

“…In contrast to streamer tubes, which represent a particular mode of operation for special cylindrical counters, streamer chambers are large-volume detectors in which events are normally recorded photographically [24][25][26][27][28]. In streamer chambers the volume between two planar electrodes is filled with a counting gas.…”

“…Streamers that are too large imply a poor spatial resolution. A suitable high-voltage pulse can be obtained using a Marx generator connected by a suitable circuit (transmission line, Blumlein circuit, spark gaps) to the streamer chamber providing short signals of high amplitude [24,26].…”

A Study of the Decay K°_L → πμν

“…The detector used was the SLAC 2 meter streamer chamber [6] shown Values of f+(t) and f,(t), in bands of fixed t, may be obtained by making a fit to the muon energy dependence. We show the results of such .…”

Performance of the SLAC 2-meter streamer chamber in a study of multibody photoproduction

“…This sample of V events had an average track length of about 70 cm and an average momentum of 3 GeV/c. A Gaussian fit to these data yields a mean mass for the K" of (498.7&O 4). MeV with a standard deviation of (5,7&O.…”