Radiation Detectors

• Scintillation detectors

- earliest: fluorescent screen --> for alpha

particles (Rutherford)

- television screen --> for electron detection

• Photomultiplier tubes: can detect single

particles

• Geiger counter (ionization of gas to detect

the radiation)

• Bubble chambers (reveals

the track of the particles)

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