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Avalanching in a GM counter is when one ionizing event leads to others, due to the attractive force of the positive voltage on the anode. This allows you to detect the event because, otherwise, the energy transferred by just one ionizing interaction would not be large enough to be detected. This sequence concludes with all of the charge on the anode being depleted.
The initial event is an interaction between the gamma ray and the tube. The subsequent events are electron cascade sequences.
It is a function of voltage. As voltage is slowly increased, the tube goes into and out of linear mode, and then it goes into avalanche mode. Prior to avalanche mode, some charge remains. In linear mode, the amount of charge is proportional to the energy of the initial interaction.
Some tubes are designed to self-quench, stopping the cascade before all of the charge is depleted. This improves recovery time and allows higher count rates to be observed.
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What are the limitation of gm counter?
g m counter is counter not a detectr. So it cannt tells us the types of radiation. G m counter does not measure high energy radiation. It does not count during dead time.
What is meant by cascade effect in GM tube?
The cascade effect of a GM tube means that, as electrons are knocked off of their atoms by ionizing radiation in the presence of high voltage, the electrons interact with other atoms, producing more and more electrons, with the end result that a large pulse is detected by the counter. This is also known as avalanche mode. In this mode, ionizing events are simply counted, with no differentiation between the relative energies of those events. The GM tube is quantitatively more sensitive, at the cost of qualitative discrimination of overall dose rate.
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What are the limitation of gm counter?
g m counter is counter not a detectr. So it cannt tells us the types of radiation. G m counter does not measure high energy radiation. It does not count during dead time.
Why do you get negative pulses in a GM counter?
A GM counter has an anode that is held at a positive high voltage potential. This is so it can attract electrons released by ionization events in the shell. When an event occurs, electrons are transferred to the anode, temporarily reducing its voltage, hence the negative going pulse.
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What is meant by cascade effect in GM tube?
The cascade effect of a GM tube means that, as electrons are knocked off of their atoms by ionizing radiation in the presence of high voltage, the electrons interact with other atoms, producing more and more electrons, with the end result that a large pulse is detected by the counter. This is also known as avalanche mode. In this mode, ionizing events are simply counted, with no differentiation between the relative energies of those events. The GM tube is quantitatively more sensitive, at the cost of qualitative discrimination of overall dose rate.
