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A NUMBER of investigators have studied the spread of discharge along the anode of self-quenching Geiger-Müller counters, but the relative importance of photo-ionization of the gas and photo-emission from the cathode in such tubes has not yet been fully determined. The mechanism of the discharge spread along the anode is thus still under discussion1.
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CHAUDHRI, R., KHAN, M. & YUNAS, M. Role of Photons in a Self-Quenching Geiger-Müller Counter. Nature 179, 1364–1365 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/1791364b0
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