Stable Self-Quenching Geiger-Müller Counters Containing Organo-Metallic Compounds

1 October 1943

journal article
research article
Published by AIP Publishing in Review of Scientific Instruments

Vol. 14 (10) , 293-295
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1770089

Abstract

Stable self‐quenching counters may be prepared by filling counter tubes with tetramethyl lead vapor at about 2 cm pressure. The counters are characterized by wide usable voltage ranges and show wide voltage ranges where the count is practically independent of voltage.

Keywords

QUENCHING
COUNTERS
ORGANO
GEIGER
USABLE
FILLING
TUBES
MÜLLER
TETRAMETHYL
COMPOUNDS