Novel mercuric iodide polycrystalline nuclear particles counters

Polycrystalline mercuric iodide nuclear radiation detectors having areas between 0.01 to 100 cm2 and thicknesses 30 to 600 microns, have been fabricated with single, linear strip and square pixel contact. The large area detectors 10 to 600 cm2 were produced by industrial ceramic equipment while the smaller ones, about 1 cm2 area, were produced in the laboratory. The large detectors still had large leakage currents and the production process is being revised. The smaller detectors were tested and their response to lower and higher gamma energy, beta and even 100 GeV muons at CERN will be reported