Almqvist and Bromley with Scattering Chamber

Left to right: Einer (Joe) Almqvist and D. Allan Bromley. Caption courtesy D. Allan Bromley: "The large scattering chamber designed for use with the Chalk River 4 MV accelerator and the future En-1, 5 MV tandem Van de Graaff accelerator. When this chamber was designed by Einar Almqvist, shown on the left, and [myself], particle detectors were usually ionization chambers, proportional counters, or photo-multipliers coupled to cesium iodide crystals. This large diameter chamber was designed to give us the flexibility to install a number of such detectors simultaneously for coincidence measurements, complete angular distribution measurements, and the like. During the time that it took to construct this chamber, James McKenzie and I developed the first solid-state particle detectors that had enormous advantages over the previous ones available. The semiconductor units were vastly smaller, had much higher resolution, operated at very low voltage, and were extremely rugged and reproducible. Because of this, they rendered this large chamber obsolete by the time it was constructed and it was, in fact, never used.", Credit Line: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Bromley Collection
Abstract/Description: Left to right: Einer (Joe) Almqvist and D. Allan Bromley. Caption courtesy D. Allan Bromley: "The large scattering chamber designed for use with the Chalk River 4 MV accelerator and the future En-1, 5 MV tandem Van de Graaff accelerator. When this chamber was designed by Einar Almqvist, shown on the left, and [myself], particle detectors were usually ionization chambers, proportional counters, or photo-multipliers coupled to cesium iodide crystals. This large diameter chamber was designed to give us the flexibility to install a number of such detectors simultaneously for coincidence measurements, complete angular distribution measurements, and the like. During the time that it took to construct this chamber, James McKenzie and I developed the first solid-state particle detectors that had enormous advantages over the previous ones available. The semiconductor units were vastly smaller, had much higher resolution, operated at very low voltage, and were extremely rugged and reproducible. Because of this, they rendered this large chamber obsolete by the time it was constructed and it was, in fact, never used."
Subject(s): Profile portraits
Eyeglasses
Particle accelerators
Laboratories
Equipment and supplies
Chalk River (Ont.)
Bromley, D. Allan (David Allan), 1926-2005
Almqvist, Einar
Credit Line: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Bromley Collection
Catalog ID: Bromley David Allan F2
Title: Almqvist and Bromley with Scattering Chamber.
Name(s): David Allan Bromley, Donor
Type of Resource: still image
Extent: 1 photographic print (black and white; 9.5 x 7.5 inches)
Abstract/Description: Left to right: Einer (Joe) Almqvist and D. Allan Bromley. Caption courtesy D. Allan Bromley: "The large scattering chamber designed for use with the Chalk River 4 MV accelerator and the future En-1, 5 MV tandem Van de Graaff accelerator. When this chamber was designed by Einar Almqvist, shown on the left, and [myself], particle detectors were usually ionization chambers, proportional counters, or photo-multipliers coupled to cesium iodide crystals. This large diameter chamber was designed to give us the flexibility to install a number of such detectors simultaneously for coincidence measurements, complete angular distribution measurements, and the like. During the time that it took to construct this chamber, James McKenzie and I developed the first solid-state particle detectors that had enormous advantages over the previous ones available. The semiconductor units were vastly smaller, had much higher resolution, operated at very low voltage, and were extremely rugged and reproducible. Because of this, they rendered this large chamber obsolete by the time it was constructed and it was, in fact, never used."
Identifier(s): Bromley David Allan F2 (Catalog ID)
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Credit Line: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Bromley Collection
Subject(s): Profile portraits
Eyeglasses
Particle accelerators
Laboratories
Equipment and supplies
Chalk River (Ont.)
Bromley, D. Allan (David Allan), 1926-2005
Almqvist, Einar
Held by: Niels Bohr Library & Archives
Copyright Holder: American Institute of Physics
Related Title: Bromley Collection.
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