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The Physics of Particle Detectors

The Physics of Particle Detectors

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics an, Book 12

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ISBN10: 0521662265
ISBN13: 9780521662260
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Aug 15 2000
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.76
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
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.

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