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Large Cloud Chamber

AUG 01, 1949

DOI: 10.1063/1.3066608

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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Volume 2, Number 8

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