• A gas electron multiplier (GEM) is a type of gaseous ionization detector used in nuclear and particle physics and radiation detection. All gaseous ionization...
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    An electron multiplier is a vacuum-tube structure that multiplies incident charges. In a process called secondary emission, a single electron can, when...
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  • mining Geminal, in chemistry Gemini (constellation), in astronomy Gas electron multiplier, a type of gaseous ionization detector German equatorial mount...
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    Large Hadron Collider, developing a new muon system called GEM (Gas Electron Multiplier), which can detect muons in the outermost layer of the CMS. Detecting...
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  • region is created. Examples of MPGDs include the microstrip gas chamber, the gas electron multiplier and the Micromegas detector. The main advantages of MPGDs...
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    the charge carriers are ions, while in plasma, an ionized gas, they are ions and electrons. In the International System of Units (SI), electric current...
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    molecules using gas electron diffraction, liquids, surfaces using lower energy electrons, a technique called LEED, and by reflecting electrons off surfaces...
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    cathode strip chambers (CSC), resistive plate chambers (RPC), and Gas electron multiplier (GEM). The DTs are used for precise trajectory measurements in...
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    the sample is fragmented it will then be detected, usually by an electron multiplier, which essentially turns the ionized mass fragment into an electrical...
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  • pressure gas. The alternating electric field of the microwaves is set to be synchronous with the gyration period of the free electrons of the gas, and increases...
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    Vacuum tube (redirect from Electron valve)
    making such developments superfluous. One variant called a "channel electron multiplier" does not use individual dynodes but consists of a curved tube, such...
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    Townsend discharge (category Electron)
    process for gases where free electrons are accelerated by an electric field, collide with gas molecules, and consequently free additional electrons. Those...
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    with either just a Frisch grid or an active electron-multiplication element like a gas electron multiplier. These newer TPCs also depart from the traditional...
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    radiation hardness. Examples of MPGDs are the microstrip gas chamber, the gas electron multiplier and the micromegas detector. Geiger–Müller tubes are the...
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    Ion (redirect from Free floating electrons)
    a fluid (gas or liquid), "ion pairs" are created by spontaneous molecule collisions, where each generated pair consists of a free electron and a positive...
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    cathode-ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube containing one or more electron guns, which emit electron beams that are manipulated to display images on a phosphorescent...
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    electrostatic attractive force between conduction electrons (in the form of an electron cloud of delocalized electrons) and positively charged metal ions. It may...
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  • Electronvolt (redirect from Electron-volt)
    (symbol eV), also written electron-volt and electron volt, is the measure of an amount of kinetic energy gained by a single electron accelerating through an...
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    spectrometer. Gaseous ionization detector Micropattern gaseous detector Gas electron multiplier Giomataris, Y.; Rebourgeard, Ph.; Robert, J.P.; Charpak, G. (1996)...
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    Torr when used in tandem with an electron multiplier. OIS RGAs measure residual gas levels without affecting the gas composition of their vacuum environment...
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    by a mechanism capable of detecting charged particles, such as an electron multiplier. Results are displayed as spectra of the signal intensity of detected...
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  • uniform electron gas, which can be obtained from the Thomas–Fermi model, and from fits to the correlation energy for a uniform electron gas. Non-interacting...
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    Auger electron spectroscopy (AES; pronounced [oʒe] in French) is a common analytical technique used specifically in the study of surfaces and, more generally...
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    transfers its energy to one of the inner-shell electrons causing it to be ejected. Everyday examples of gas ionization occur within a fluorescent lamp or...
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    a "gas in a box"). The ideal gas model has also been used to model the behavior of electrons in a metal (in the Drude model and the free electron model)...
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  • Field electron emission, also known as field-induced electron emission, field emission (FE) and electron field emission, is the emission of electrons from...
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    "environmental" cells with water or atmospheric gas, in conjunction with conventional and scanning transmission types of electron microscopes. However, the first images...
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    engines. Electron ionization is widely used in mass spectrometry, particularly for organic molecules. The gas phase reaction producing electron ionization...
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  • releases additional electrons which accelerate and collide with further atoms, releasing more electrons—a chain reaction. In a gas, this causes the affected...
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    signals. With an electron multiplier, an impact of a single ion starts off an electron cascade, resulting in a pulse of 108 electrons, which is recorded...
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