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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

Sunday 18 October 2020

AWAN Cloud Chamber, Track Counts, Acquisition ID: 20200622A

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 22
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: 224
α-tracks registered: 7147
Electron tracks registered: 61
Forked tracks: 41 (0.57 %)
Photoelectron or beta tracks: 47
Secondary electron tracks: 14
Cosmic ray tracks: 17


GALLERY OF NOTABLE TRACKS


ALPHA COLLISION TRACKS

20200622ADSC_0185

20200622ADSC_0219

20200622ADSC_0225

20200622ADSC_0265

20200622ADSC_0292

20200622ADSC_0294

20200622ADSC_0394


ELECTRON TRACKS

20200622ADSC_0189

20200622ADSC_0208

20200622ADSC_0212

20200622ADSC_0223

20200622ADSC_0230

20200622ADSC_0236

20200622ADSC_0268

20200622ADSC_0328

20200622ADSC_0375


COSMIC RAY TRACKS

20200622ADSC_0300

20200622ADSC_0331


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