| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 306 pages) : illustrations |
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text file PDF rda |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Interactions of particles in matter -- Natural and man-made sources of radiation -- Detectors based on ionization in gases -- Detectors based on ionization in semiconductor materials -- Detectors based on scintillation -- Neutron detection -- Electronics for particle detectors. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
The book is based on a course in nuclear and particle physics that the author has taught over many years to physics students, students in nuclear engineering and students in biomedical engineering. It provides the basic understanding that any student or researcher using such instruments and techniques should have about the subject. After an introduction to the structure of matter at the subatomic scale, it covers the experimental aspects of nuclear and particle physics. Ideally complementing a theoretically-oriented textbook on nuclear physics and/or particle physics, it introduces the reader to the different techniques used in nuclear and particle physics to accelerate particles and to measurement techniques (detectors) in nuclear and particle physics. The main subjects treated are: interactions of subatomic particles in matter; particle accelerators; basics of different types of detectors; and nuclear electronics. The book will be of interest to undergraduates, graduates and researchers in both particle and nuclear physics. For the physicists it is a good introduction to all experimental aspects of nuclear and particle physics. Nuclear engineers will appreciate the nuclear measurement techniques, while biomedical engineers can learn about measuring ionising radiation, the use of accelerators for radiotherapy. What's more, worked examples, end-of-chapter exercises, and appendices with key constants, properties and relationships supplement the textual material. |
| Local Note |
Springer Nature Springer Nature Open Access eBooks |
| Subject |
Nuclear physics.
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Nuclear physics -- Experiments.
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nuclear physics.
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Physique.
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Nuclear physics. (OCoLC)fst01040386
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Nuclear physics -- Experiments. (OCoLC)fst01040392
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tavernier, Stefaan. Experimental techniques in nuclear and particle physics. Heidelberg ; New York : Springer, ©2010 9783642008283 3642008283 (OCoLC)390892874 |
| ISBN |
9783642008290 |
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3642008291 |
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9783642008283 |
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3642008283 |
| Standard No. |
10.1007/978-3-642-00829-0. doi |
| Music No. |
12532797 |
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