Design, manufacture and supply of a fog chamber for cosmic ray detection. It was a customized product of AtomiXs. The AtomiXs fog chamber is a device for visualizing the path of charged particles in supercooled alcohol vapor. The basis of the system is closed compressor cooling, supersaturated alcohol vapor and high voltage, which pulls charged ions into the fog belt. The AtomiXs fog chamber is composed of a cooling section and the visualization chamber itself. The cooling section consists of a fully closed coolant circuit. Two electronic circuits are located in the control unit. One for controlling the cooling circuit and the other for controlling the system. The visualization chamber includes thermal components controlled by electronics and sample inserts controlled by pushbuttons. The control board communicates with all system components, controls ionization, sets the temperature of the thermal circuit, controls lighting, controls alcohol circulation, and processes temperature readings.
Parameters of the device
- Observation area 60 x 45 cm2 covered with safety glass
- LED lighting of the observation area
- Chamber designed to operate in 8 hours a day / 7 days a week mode
- Remote control and parameter setting via PC with automatic time switching on and off
- Mechanism for insertion and stable attachment of radioactive standards in the observation area
- The chamber itself in a compact design is equipped with wheels for transportation to other areas
- Digital CMOS camera for scanning the observation area with a resolution of 2560 x 1920 px and the possibility of image transmission via network protocol
- Power supply 230 VAC / 16 A
