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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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    [2] Schematic diagram of Nevill Mott's model for alpha particle excitation of bubbles in a cloud chamber. Mott's goal is to calculate the probability of exciting multiple atoms in the cloud chamber to understand why the excitation with a spherical wave creates a linear track.

  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. Delta ray - Wikipedia

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    This picture shows the four particles that are detectable in a cloud chamber : proton, electron, muon (probably) and alpha. Delta rays are seen associated with the proton track. A delta ray is characterized by very fast electrons produced in quantity by alpha particles or other fast energetic charged particles knocking orbiting electrons out of ...

  7. 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.

  8. Antimatter - Wikipedia

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    A cloud chamber photograph of the first observed positron, 2 August 1932. ... On 26 April 2011, ALPHA announced that they had trapped 309 antihydrogen atoms, some for ...

  9. Dmitri Skobeltsyn - Wikipedia

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    Starting in 1923, Skobeltsyn pioneered the use of the cloud chamber [1] to study the Compton effect. As a result of this work, Skobeltsyn paved the way for Carl David Anderson 's discovery of the positron by two important contributions: by adding a magnetic field to his cloud chamber (in 1925 [ 2 ] ), and by discovering charged particle cosmic ...