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AWAN Cloud Chamber
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(left) Alpha tracks from Uranitite (right) Alpha tracks from Americium-241
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Vacuum Test of AWAN

Tuesday 6 October 2020

AWAN Cloud Chamber, Track Counts, Acquisition ID: 20200620E

 NOTE: This post is a regular update on "one-day-findings" based on the experiment objectives of AWAN_AmαS_At. More of such post will be updated until data acquisition is sufficient for statistical analysis.



PARAMETERS

ACQUISITION DATE: 2020 June 20
CHAMBER: AWAN
SOURCE: 29.6 kBq (purchased 2013 July) Americium-241 button in aluminium slit
TARGET: Atmospheric nuclei @ 1 atm
CONDENSANT: 60 % 2-Propanol (Isopropanol) in 40 % water

CAMERA: Direct photography with NIKON D5000
FOCAL LENGTH: 60 mm
F/-NUMBER, ISO: 3.2, 4000
SHUTTER SPEED: 1/100 s (10 ms)


DATA ANALYSIS

Photographs taken: 195
α-tracks registered: 6897
Electron tracks registered: 39
Forked tracks: 30 (0.43 %)
Photoelectron tracks: 32
Secondary electron tracks: 7
Cosmic ray tracks: 31


GALLERY OF NOTABLE TRACKS


ALPHA COLLISION TRACKS

20200620EDSC_0392

20200620EDSC_0444

20200620EDSC_0449

20200620EDSC_0521


ELECTRON TRACKS

20200620EDSC_0379

20200620EDSC_0395

20200620EDSC_0400

20200620EDSC_0477

20200620EDSC_0503


COSMIC RAY TRACKS

20200620EDSC_0408


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