| Abstract: | With a pulsed power supply for gas-discharge counters, counting errors, determined by the dead time, are eliminated. Because of this, the possibility arises of using hodoscope systems of counters with a controlled pulsed power supply in experiments carried out with accelerators having a large background of extraneous radiation. In the present work the counting characteristics were investigated, and also measurements were carried out of the efficiency and the resolving power of self-quenching factory-produced counters with a controlled pulsed power supply. It is found that in the case of short-duration pulses (pulse length  10–6 sec) the counters can work under over-voltages of up to 2 kv. At the same time there is no necessity to amplify the pulses in the hodoscope channel or to use a discriminator to obtain their coincidences with the control pulse. Each channel, in this case, in addition to the counter contains a load resistance and a neon lamp. The considerable simplification of the system, by comparison with the usual type of hodoscope, and also the reliable performance of counters with pulsed power supplies, make such systems also useful for the study of cosmic radiation.In conclution, the author express their gratitude to A. N. Sinaev for help during the work. |
