Vessel filled with a superheated transparent liquid
Fermilab's disused 15-foot (4.57 m) bubble chamberThe first tracks observed in John Wood's 1.5-inch (3.8 cm) liquid hydrogen bubble chamber, in 1954.
A bubble chamber is a vessel filled with a superheated transparent liquid (most often liquid hydrogen) used to detect electrically charged particles moving through it. It was invented in 1952 by Donald A. Glaser,[1] for which he was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics.[2] Supposedly, Glaser was inspired by the bubbles in a glass of beer; however, in a 2006 talk, he refuted this story, although saying that while beer was not the inspiration for the bubble chamber, he did experiments using beer to fill early prototypes.[3]
While bubble chambers were extensively used in the past, they have now mostly been supplanted by wire chambers, spark chambers, drift chambers, and silicon detectors. Notable bubble chambers include the Big European Bubble Chamber (BEBC) and Gargamelle.
^Donald A. Glaser (1952). "Some Effects of Ionizing Radiation on the Formation of Bubbles in Liquids". Physical Review. 87 (4): 665. Bibcode:1952PhRv...87..665G. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.87.665.
^
"The Nobel Prize in Physics 1960". The Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2009-10-03.
^Anne Pinckard (21 July 2006). "Front Seat to History: Summer Lecture Series Kicks Off – Invention and History of the Bubble Chamber". Berkeley Lab View Archive. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Archived from the original on 2017-12-24. Retrieved 2009-10-03.
A bubblechamber is a vessel filled with a superheated transparent liquid (most often liquid hydrogen) used to detect electrically charged particles moving...
particle physics from the 1920s to the 1950s, until the advent of the bubblechamber. In particular, the discoveries of the positron in 1932 (see Fig. 1)...
The Big European BubbleChamber (BEBC) is a large detector formerly used to study particle physics at CERN. The chamber body, a stainless-steel vessel...
The construction of the LExan BubbleChamber, LEBC, was approved by the CERN Research Board on 16 November 1978. Bubble chambers are similar to cloud...
The Holographic Lexan BubbleChamber, HOLEBC, was a hydrogen bubblechamber. Bubble chambers are similar to cloud chambers, both in application and in...
Look up bubble, bubbles, or bubbling in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bubble, Bubbles or The Bubble may refer to: Bubble (physics), a globule of one...
discovery of resonance states in particle physics using the hydrogen bubblechamber. In 2007 the American Journal of Physics commented, "Luis Alvarez was...
spark Cloud chamberBubblechamber University of Cambridge Spark Chambers Spark Chamber Project - McGill University "How does a spark chamber work?" - From...
Cut-away showing interior of a drift chamber Drift chamber at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris Bubblechamber Gaseous ionization detector Micropattern...
various targets and specialized detectors, notably the liquid hydrogen bubblechamber. Many thousands of particle interactions, or "events", were photographed...
Gargamelle was a heavy liquid bubblechamber detector in operation at CERN between 1970 and 1979. It was designed to detect neutrinos and antineutrinos...
BubbleChamber, BIBC, was almost pocket size, 6.5 centimetres across and with a visible volume containing about a wine glass of heavy liquid. Bubble chambers...
an experiment searching for direct evidence of dark matter using a bubblechamber of chlorofluorocarbon (Freon) as the active mass. It is located at SNOLAB...
the movie in his transport chamber. When Vetter was four years old, he discovered that he could poke holes in his bubble using a butterfly syringe that...
A filter bubble or ideological frame is a state of intellectual isolation that can result from personalized searches, recommendation systems, and algorithmic...
thereafter (also in 1973), in a neutrino experiment in the Gargamelle bubblechamber at CERN. Following the success of quantum electrodynamics in the 1950s...
Freezing Boiling Gravity Magnetism Crystal in VCGS furnace Liquid hydrogen bubblechamber photograph of an anti-proton colliding with a proton Children notice...
extremely sensitive photomultiplier tubes. The PICO 40L, a third generation bubblechamber dark matter search experiment, is a merger of the former PICASSO and...
each bubblechamber experimental technique used at CERN. These replaced the previous Advisory and BubbleChamber committees. At the end of the bubble chamber...
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble is a 1976 American made for television drama film inspired by the lives of David Vetter and Ted DeVita, who lacked effective...
(elastic collision). Finally, superheated liquid hydrogen was used in many bubblechamber experiments. The first thermonuclear bomb, Ivy Mike, used liquid deuterium...
Guggenheim Fellowship to study the history of physics and to conduct bubblechamber research at University College London, where he was exposed to European...
replaced it with a photo of particle collisions in the Big European BubbleChamber. RCA replaced the track "New York City Cops" with "When It Started"...
include: 1973: The discovery of neutral currents in the Gargamelle bubblechamber; 1983: The discovery of W and Z bosons in the UA1 and UA2 experiments;...
Global Information
