Geiger-Muller Detector Simulation

Radiation is the phenomenon of releasing particles or waves of energy from unstable atomic nuclei. One tool commonly used to detect radiation is the Geiger-Müller (GM) tube. GM tubes work on the principle of ionization, where radioactive particles entering the tube will interact with the gas inside, producing ions which are then counted as electrical pulses. The number of pulses detected indicates how many radiation particles reach the detector in a given time span. In this simulation, we will observe how the number of detected radiation particles is affected by the distance of the radiation source to the detector. The farther the radiation source is from the detector, the fewer particles are detected.