In the field of nuclear research and applications of radio isotopes, the Geiger Muller Counters play an important role. The GM Counters are used to detect Alpha, Beta, Low energy X and Gamma radiation.
AET's Geiger Counter GM-11 provides a Built-in programmable timer/counter and 16x2 alphanumeric display to show time and count values.
Experiments
- Determination of the Plateau of the GM counter and its percentage slope.
- Determination of dead time of Geiger counter for Beta and Gamma radiation separately.
- Determination of back scattering coefficient of a material for beta radiation.
- Determination of back scattering coefficients of a material for beta radiation.
- Determination of self absorption coefficient of beta source.
- Verification of inverse square law for gamma radiation.
- Determination of half life of a radioactive source.
- Determination of mass absorption coefficients of aluminium for gamma and beta radiations.
- Determination of end point energy of beta radiation by finding out its range in aluminium.