Designing, building, and testing a multi-wire proportional chamber

This research describes the development of a homemade low-cost Multi-Wire Proportional Chamber (MWPC), a detector that can collect data from ionising particles. For the design and construction of this detector, accessible and affordable materials were used to lower the cost barrier of experimental particle physics, making experimental particle physics more feasible for hobbyists, small research groups and schools. As the use of the MWPC has been proposed as an experiment for the Beamline for Schools competition, it has been tested at the DESY II beamline to research certain properties of the detector, such as total charge gain, spatial accuracy, and detection efficiency, which has been documented in detail. The results demonstrate the capabilities of a homemade detector.