Titlebook: Educational and Amateur Geiger Counter Experiments; 50+ Activities for B Francesco Riggi Book 2024 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Au

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Geiger Counterss discussed in this chapter. After briefly recalling the work of Hans Geiger and Walter Müller, the basic working principles of such counters are discussed, together with their main operational conditions and performance. Design considerations about the construction and use of Geiger counters are re

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Geiger Counters for Teaching and Science Amateursg and in the amateur world, as one of the basic instruments to equip science enthusiasts with a tool for investigating the world of radiations. Science kits developed in the past quite often included a Geiger counter and some radioactive sample. In recent years, the availability of low-cost devices

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Measuring Background Radiation in Different Environmentson and the environmental radiation of terrestrial origin. Measurement of the background rate carried out for several days in different environments and under different amounts of shielding are presented and discussed as possible activities to be organized. The moving average algorithm is introduced,

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Detecting Alpha Particles with a Geigerical materials are commented, and a few possible measurements are proposed to demonstrate the effect of shielding the detector from low energy heavy particles and to estimate the range of such particles in the material.