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  2. Cloud chamber - Wikipedia

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    Fig. 4: How condensation trails are formed in a diffusion cloud chamber. Fig. 5: In a diffusion cloud chamber, a 5.3 MeV alpha-particle track from a Pb-210 pin source near Point (1) undergoes Rutherford scattering near Point (2), deflecting by angle theta of about 30 degrees. It scatters once again near Point (3), and finally comes to rest in ...

  3. Mott problem - Wikipedia

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    Consequently, Mott is assuming that the alpha particle barely notices the atoms it excites as it races through the cloud chamber. Mott analyzes the spatial properties of the factor f j 1 0 ( R ) {\displaystyle f_{j_{1}0}(\mathbf {R} )} which describes the scattered alpha-particle wave when the first atom is excited and the second is in its ...

  4. Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory - Wikipedia

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    Gilbert cloud chamber, assembled An alternative view of kit contents. The lab contained a cloud chamber allowing the viewer to watch alpha particles traveling at 12,000 miles per second (19,000,000 m/s), a spinthariscope showing the results of radioactive disintegration on a fluorescent screen, and an electroscope measuring the radioactivity of different substances in the set.

  5. Alpha particle - Wikipedia

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    A physicist observes alpha particles from the decay of a polonium source in a cloud chamber Alpha radiation detected in an isopropanol cloud chamber (after injection of an artificial source radon-220) The best-known source of alpha particles is alpha decay of heavier (mass number of at least 104) atoms.

  6. Rutherford scattering experiments - Wikipedia

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    In a cloud chamber, a 5.3 MeV alpha particle track from a 210 Pb source (1) undergoes Rutherford scattering (2), deflecting by an angle of about 30°. It scatters once again (3), and finally comes to rest in the gas.

  7. Magneto-optical trap - Wikipedia

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    The MOT cloud is loaded from a background of thermal vapour, or from an atomic beam, usually slowed down to the capture velocity using a Zeeman slower. However, the trapping potential in a magneto-optical trap is small in comparison to thermal energies of atoms and most collisions between trapped atoms and the background gas supply enough ...

  8. Bubble chamber - Wikipedia

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    The bubble chamber is similar to a cloud chamber, both in application and in basic principle. It is normally made by filling a large cylinder with a liquid heated to just below its boiling point. As particles enter the chamber, a piston suddenly decreases its pressure, and the liquid enters into a superheated, metastable phase.

  9. Alexander Langsdorf Jr. - Wikipedia

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    In this time he developed a continuously sensitive cloud chamber. After a research fellowship at the University of California at Berkeley , he became a physics instructor at Washington University in St. Louis from 1939 to 1942.