Proportional counter | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:59 1 Operation
00:04:31 1.1 Gas mixtures
00:05:26 2 Signal Amplification by Multiplication
00:07:10 3 Applications
00:07:19 3.1 Spectroscopy
00:08:32 3.2 Photon detection
00:09:03 3.3 Radioactive contamination detection
00:11:00 3.4 Guidance on application use
00:11:30 4 See also
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SUMMARY
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The proportional counter is a type of gaseous ionization detector device used to measure particles of ionizing radiation. The key feature is its ability to measure the energy of incident radiation, by producing a detector output pulse that is proportional to the radiation energy absorbed by the detector due to an ionizing event; hence the detector's name. It is widely used where energy levels of incident radiation must be known, such as in the discrimination between alpha and beta particles, or accurate measurement of X-ray radiation dose.
A proportional counter uses a combination of the mechanisms of a Geiger–Müller tube and an ionization chamber, and operates in an intermediate voltage region between these.
The accompanying plot shows the proportional counter operating voltage region for a co-axial cylinder arrangement.