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'Green has written a valuable wide-ranging text in an original style, exploiting well his long experience. Since Rutherford, instrumentation of nuclear and particle physics experiments has been a significant inspiration to many in the field. This book provides an excellent starting point for those hoping to maintain this tradition.' Professor G. Hall, Contemporary Physics
Book Description
Here is a comprehensive introduction to the physical principles and design of particle detectors, covering all major detector types in use today. After discussing the size and energy scales involved in different physical processes, the book considers nondestructive methods, including the photoelectric effect, photomultipliers, scintillators, Cerenkov and transition radiation, scattering and ionization, and the use of magnetic fields in drift and wire chambers. A complete chapter is devoted to silicon detectors. In the final part of the book, Green discusses destructive measurement techniques. Throughout, he emphasizes the physical principles underlying detection and shows, through appropriate examples, how those principles are best utilized in real detectors. Exercises and detailed further reading lists are included.
The Physics of Particle Detectors (Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology)
The Physics of Particle Detectors (Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology),Dan Green,T. Ericson,P. Y. Landshoff,Cambridge University Press,0521675685,Nuclear Energy,Nuclear Physics,Physics,Science,Science/Mathematics,Nuclear counters,Particle & high-energy physics,Science / Nuclear Physics
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