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Large Cloud Chamber

AUG 01, 1949
E. W. Cowan

One method of increasing the probability of observing interesting cosmic ray events, which are not subject to the control of the observer, is to build a very large cloud chamber. The difficult problem of illuminating a large chamber has been ingeniously solved by Carl D. Anderson and Seth Neddermeyer in the construction of a chamber nearly three feet in diameter.

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