40 Inch Heavy Liquid Bubble Chamber, Anl
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40 Inch Heavy Liquid Bubble Chamber, Anl
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40 inch Michigan-Argonne heavy liquid bubble chamber showing the 46 kilogauss magnet (octagonal structure) in the center, 1968. A bubble chamber is a vessel filled with a superheated transparent liquid (most often liquid hydrogen) used to detect electrically charged particles moving through it. The bubble chamber is similar to a cloud chamber, both in application and in basic principle. It is normally made by filling a large cylinder with a liquid heated to just below its boiling point. As particles enter the chamber, a piston suddenly decreases its pressure, and the liquid enters into a superheated, metastable phase. Charged particles create an ionization track, around which the liquid vaporizes, forming microscopic bubbles. Bubble density around a track is proportional to a particle's energy loss. Bubbles grow in size as the chamber expands, until they are large enough to be seen or photographed.
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August 4th, 2015
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