Fabio Sauli (Organisation Europeenne pour la Recherche Nucleaire (C

Gaseous Radiation Detectors

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 2014 text reviews the major developments in the design and operation of gaseous radiation detectors. Including examples of applications, it is a valuable reference for researchers and experimentalists in nuclear and particle physics. It has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Revised ed
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 880g
• ISBN-13: 9781009291217
• ISBN-10: 1009291211
• Artikelnr.: 66276516

Autorenporträt

Fabio Sauli is Research Associate for the Italian TERA Foundation, responsible for the development of medical diagnostic instrumentation for hadrontherapy. Prior to this, he was part of the Research Staff at CERN in the Gas Detectors Development group, initiated by Georges Charpak, before leading the group from 1989 until his retirement in 2006. He has more than 200 scientific publications and is an editor of several books on instrumentation in high energy physics. His achievements include inventing the Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM), which is widely used in advanced detectors.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Electromagnetic interactions of charged particles with matter
3. Interactions of photons and neutrons with matter
4. Drift and diffusion of charges in gases
5. Collisional excitations and charge multiplication in uniform fields
6. Parallel plate counters
7. Proportional counters
8. Multiwire proportional chambers
9. Drift chambers
10. Time projection chambers
11. Multitube arrays
12. Resistive plate chambers
13. Micro-pattern gas detectors
14. Cherenkov ring imaging
15. Miscellaneous detectors and applications
16. Time degeneracy and aging
Further reading
References
Index.