The Use of Multiwire Proportional Counters to Select and Localize Charged Particles

The Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR): The First Hadron Collider

“…None of the devices used in the sixties could meet these requirements. The invention in 1968 at CERN by Georges Charpak of the Multi-Wire Proportional Chamber (MWPC) [Box 4.4] completely changed the scenario [51]. Capable of detecting and electronically recording particle positions at a high rate, and permitting the coverage of large areas, they could be tailored to be sensitive a few cm from the vacuum chamber.…”

From bubble chambers to electronic systems: 25 years of evolution in particle detectors at CERN (1979–2004)

“…A true innovation in detector concepts came in 1968, with the development by Georges Charpak of the Multiwire Proportional Chamber (MWPC) [6]. A set of parallel, tin anode wires stretched between two cathode foils at high voltage, act as individual proportional counters and amplify the ionization trails released in the gas by charged particles (Fig.…”

Radiation imaging detectors made by wafer post-processing of CMOS chips

“…In 1968 the wire chamber [15] was introduced by Charpak and coworkers. It represented the starting point to the electronic read out of the track left by electrically charged particles traversing a gas volume.…”