Radiation and Detectors Introduction to the Physics of Radiation and Detection Devices /

• Main Author: Cerrito, Lucio (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Graduate Texts in Physics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Particle acceleration.; Physical measurements.; Measurement.; Medical physics.; Radiation.; Radiation protection.; Radiation > Safety measures.; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics.; Medical and Radiation Physics.; Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection.; Measurement Science and Instrumentation.

This textbook provides an introduction to radiation, the principles of interaction between radiation and matter, and the exploitation of those principles in the design of modern radiation detectors. Both radiation and detectors are given equal attention and their interplay is carefully laid out with...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Radiation
• 1 Particles and forces
• 2 Natural sources of radiation
• 3 Dosimetry
• 4 Relativistic kinematics and Collisions
• 5 Elements of accelerator physics
• Part II Interaction Mechanisms and Detectors
• 6 Ionisation and Multiple Scattering
• 7 Gaseous and liquid ionisation detectors
• 8 Semiconductor detectors
• 9 Scintillation process and light detectors
• 10Electromagnetic and Hadronic showers: Calorimeters
• 11Cherenkov and transition radiation: detectors for PID and neutrinos
• A Statistics and probability
• Index.