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Proportional Counters

Although proportional counters have been used as X-ray detectors for many years they continue to be refined and improved. A pair of one dimensional counters was used as part of a Bragg Crystal Spectrometer experiment on board the Japanese satellite Yohkoh (launched 1990). Similar detectors were employed in the ReSIK experiment on the Russian KORONAS mission (launched August 2001). More details ...

 

Contact: Matthew Whyndham, mwt@mssl.ucl.ac.uk , Tel: +44 1483 204131