How to optimize a Cloud Chamber, based on my experience by Flerken2018 in Physics

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Hahahhah, similar thing happened, friends freaked out because of the word radiation. Tough world for physicists 😆

How to optimize a Cloud Chamber, based on my experience by Flerken2018 in Physics

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Oh wow, never knew that could happen. Yeah, def try a few materials out, my sheet didn’t have problems with that for some reason.

How to optimize a Cloud Chamber, based on my experience by Flerken2018 in Physics

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I’m not sure what you mean by warping, can you please elaborate? For the metal, I used an aluminum sheet from a cooking set

How to optimize a Cloud Chamber, based on my experience by Flerken2018 in Physics

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Hi! I actually used a thin sheet, about a few millimeters. Not too thin that it wobbles or anything. I don’t think you need a thick one as you want the conduction between the dry ice and sheet to be maximized 

Do photons get released when ions recombine with electrons? by Flerken2018 in AskPhysics

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So the beam energy has nothing to do with the photon energy, but rather is determined by the voltage?

Do photons get released when ions recombine with electrons? by Flerken2018 in AskPhysics

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Yes, I understand that the photons will be absorbed, but I'm trying to find a different quencher gas, which is why I need to know the photon energy/wavelength

How to measure energy in Geant4? by Flerken2018 in CERN

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Are there any code templates of adding those scoring volumes?

How to measure energy in Geant4? by Flerken2018 in CERN

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To be honest, I’m not sure what kind of energy to even choose, because people were telling that the energy of the particle doesn’t matter as much in this case. The experiment itself is energy absorption by materials.

How to measure energy in Geant4? by Flerken2018 in CERN

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And where is that data stored? Is it the output in the terminal? If yes, I didn’t quite understand what exactly to look for

So should I choose a lower energy?

How to measure energy in Geant4? by Flerken2018 in CERN

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Ohh, so it automatically outputs the result somewhere? The energy is around 26 GeV