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

✍ Scribed by O. Vagle; Ø. Olsen; G.A. Johansen

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 141 KB
• Volume: 580
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0168-9002
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2007.05.178

✦ Synopsis

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 detector. This also increases the lifetime correspondingly.