GEIGER-MÜLLER THRESHOLD


Meaning of GEIGER-MÜLLER THRESHOLD in English

/guy"geuhr mul"euhr, -myooh"leuhr/ , Physics.

the minimum voltage applied to an ionization chamber, as in a Geiger counter, at which the charge collected per count is independent of the nature of the ionizing event producing the count. Also called Geiger threshold .

[ named after H. GEIGER and W. Müller, 20th-century German physicist ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .