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The Streamer Chamber

A new kind of particle detector is in use at the two-mile Stanford linear accelerator. In it the path of a particle is traced by small sparklike "streamers" in a gas between high-voltage electrodes

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 217 Issue 4This article was originally published with the title “The Streamer Chamber” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 217 No. 4 (), p. 38
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1067-38