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Coauthored tests of multiwire proportional chambers in which wires spaced $1\mathrm{mm}$ apart operated as independent proportional counters, enabling electronic localization of charged-particle tracks.^[ref]

Georges Charpak developed the multiwire proportional chamber, replacing repeated photographic recording with electronic measurements of charged-particle passages. Ionization electrons drift through a gas toward thin wires; the strong local electric field produces avalanches and readable pulses. Knowing which wires respond supplies spatial information, while the electrical output permits rapid processing of many events. This connects microscopic ionization with the practical rate and position resolution of a particle detector.^[ref]

A physicist who developed electronic particle detectors at CERN.^[ref]

Coauthored tests of multiwire proportional chambers in which wires spaced $1\mathrm{mm}$ apart operated as independent proportional counters, enabling electronic localization of charged-particle tracks.^[ref]

The original apparatus used $40\mu \mathrm{m}$ stainless-steel wires between meshes $7.5\mathrm{mm}$ away, flowing argon with organic vapor, negative mesh voltage and individual electronic amplifiers. A $5.9\mathrm{keV}$ X-ray source calibrated pulse height while voltage was varied.^[ref]

A coincidence circuit defined a narrow proton or pion beam. Scanning it across wires tested localization; the response edge matched the beam width, limiting the inference. Distant counts were attributed to accidental coincidences. Separate electron scans measured pulse delay versus position, comparing gas mixtures and pulse-height-dependent electronics.^[ref]

Thresholds rejected small pulses, reducing detection efficiency. Wire-independence tests did not establish unlimited separation of overlapping tracks.^[ref]

Coauthored tests of multiwire proportional chambers in which wires spaced $1\mathrm{mm}$ apart operated as independent proportional counters, enabling electronic localization of charged-particle tracks.^[ref]

Coauthored tests of multiwire proportional chambers in which wires spaced $1\mathrm{mm}$ apart operated as independent proportional counters, enabling electronic localization of charged-particle tracks.^[ref]