A quenching circuit of very short rise time for Geiger-M$uuml$ller counters

A simple and efficient active quenching

A simple and efficient active quenching circuit for Geiger–Müller counters

✍ O. Vagle; Ø. Olsen; G.A. Johansen 📂 Article 📅 2007 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 141 KB

The development and experimental results of a circuit for active quenching of the discharge in Geiger-Mu¨ller counters a presented. The method increases the count-rate capability by one order of magnitude by stopping the discharge process in its initial stage and thus reducing the deadtime of the de