Wire chamber
Cámara de hilos
- Date
- 1968 · confidence high
- Place
- Geneva, Switzerland
- Credited to
- Georges Charpak
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What it is
A particle detector based on a grid of thin, electrically charged metal wires that electronically records the trajectories of ionizing particles, replacing the photographic bubble chamber; invented by Georges Charpak at CERN.
What it led to
- High-speed electronic particle detection in high-energy physics
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1992) for Charpak
- Basis of modern detectors such as drift chambers