Claus Grupen (Germany Universitat-Gesamthochschule Siegen), Boris Shwartz (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Ru

Particle Detectors

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes all aspects of detectors used in high energy physics, astroparticle physics, and related fields. It is an excellent reference for graduate students and researchers in particle physics. First published in 2008, this title 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
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 676
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1266g
• ISBN-13: 9781009401517
• ISBN-10: 1009401513
• Artikelnr.: 68319554

Autorenporträt

Claus Grupen is Professor in the Department of Physics at Siegen University. He was awarded the Special High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the European Physical Society for establishing the existence of the gluon in independent and simultaneous ways, as member of the PLUTO experiment at DESY in 1995.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the first edition
Preface to the second edition
Introduction
1. Interactions of particles and radiation with matter
2. Characteristic properties of detectors
3. Units of radiation measurements and radiation sources
4. Accelerators
5. Main physical phenomena used for particle detection and basic counter types
6. Historical track detectors
7. Track detectors
8. Calorimetry
9. Particle identification
10. Neutrino detectors
11. Momentum measurement and muon detection
12. Ageing and radiation effects
13. Example of a general-purpose detector: Belle
14. Electronics
15. Data analysis
16. Applications of particle detectors outside particle physics
17. Glossary
18. Solutions
19. Resumé
Appendixes
Index.