Abstract

This paper presents the experimental data on the dynamic breakdown voltage and electrical breakdown time delay of commercial Geiger-Muller chamber manufactured by PHILIPS. The distributions of these data were determined. Static breakdown voltage was estimated based on the mean value of dynamic breakdown voltage as the function of voltage increase rate, for the cases when gamma radiation was not presented and in its presence. In order to separate the mechanisms that predominantly influence the initiation of breakdown for different values of relaxation time, the dependences of mean value of electrical breakdown time delay as the function of relaxation time was analyzed. It has been shown that during the relaxation times up to 3 ms positive ions plays a dominant role in initiating the breakdown while for relaxation times from 3 ms to 30 s initiation of the breakdown is caused by electrically neutral active particles. The effect of gamma radiation on electrical breakdown time delay was observed for relaxation time greater than 7 s.

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