Townsend avalanche

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The Townsend avalanche is a gas ionization process in which free electrons accelerate under an electric field and trigger a chain reaction of further ionizations, forming the basis of operation for many gaseous particle detectors.

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Geiger–Müller tube usesPrinciple Townsend avalanche