Techniques for nuclear and particle physics experiments: a how-to approach

✍ Scribed by Dr. William R. Leo (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 384
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Not quite six years have passed since the appearance of the first edition of this book. This is not a long period. Yet the rapid pace of scientific and technological development today is such that any book on experimental technique must be wary of becoming ob­ solete in some way or another even in such a short span of time. Thus, when the publisher Springer-Verlag informed me of the need for a new printing of this book, I decided it was an opportune moment to update some of the chapters as well as to include some new material. The result is this second edition. The most notable changes have been in Chapters 2 and 3. In the latter, which con­ cerns radiation protection, most of the sections have been rewritten to take into account the new recommendations from the International Commission on Radiation Protection, the most important of which are the new dose limits for exposure to ionizing radiation. In addition, emphasis has now been put on the use of SI units in dosimetry, i.e., the Gray and Sievert, which have now become standard.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII
Basic Nuclear Processes in Radioactive Sources....Pages 1-15
Passage of Radiation Through Matter....Pages 17-68
Radiation Protection. Biological Effects of Radiation....Pages 69-79
Statistics and the Treatment of Experimental Data....Pages 81-113
General Characteristics of Detectors....Pages 115-126
Ionization Detectors....Pages 127-156
Scintillation Detectors....Pages 157-175
Photomultipliers....Pages 177-198
Scintillation Detector Mounting and Operation....Pages 199-213
Semiconductor Detectors....Pages 215-247
Pulse Signals in Nuclear Electronics....Pages 249-255
The NIM Standard....Pages 257-261
Signal Transmission....Pages 263-276
Electronics for Pulse Signal Processing....Pages 277-302
Pulse Height Selection and Coincidence Technique....Pages 303-316
Electronic Logic for Experiments....Pages 317-324
Timing Methods and Systems....Pages 325-334
Computer Controlled Electronics: CAMAC....Pages 335-358
Back Matter....Pages 353-378

✦ Subjects

Particle and Nuclear Physics; Engineering, general