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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 13 October 2020

AWAN Cloud Chamber, Track Counts, Acquisition ID: 20200621C

 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 21
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: 108
α-tracks registered: 3597
Electron tracks registered: 25
Forked tracks: 19 (0.53 %)
Photoelectron tracks: 22
Secondary electron tracks: 3
Cosmic ray tracks: 14


GALLERY OF NOTABLE TRACKS


ALPHA COLLISION TRACKS

20200621CDSC_0087

20200621CDSC_0089

20200621CDSC_0094

20200621CDSC_0117

20200621CDSC_0128

20200621CDSC_0171


ELECTRON TRACKS

20200621CDSC_0130

20200621CDSC_0132

20200621CDSC_0140

20200621CDSC_0156


COSMIC RAY TRACKS

20200621CDSC_0088

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