Particle Detection with Drift Chambers

• Main Authors: Rolandi, Luigi (Author), Riegler, Werner (Author), Blum, Walter (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Particle Acceleration and Detection,
• Subjects: Physics.; Particle acceleration.; Physical measurements.; Measurement.; Electronics.; Microelectronics.; Nuclear engineering.; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics.; Measurement Science and Instrumentation.; Nuclear Engineering.; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation.

This volume presents a thorough introduction to the theory and operation of drift chambers, one of the most important modern methods of elementary particle detection. The topics, presented in a text-book style with many illustrations, include the basics of gas ionization, by particles and by lasers,...

Table of Contents:

• Gas Ionization by Charged Particles and by Laser Rays
• The Drift of Electrons and Ions in Gases
• Electrostatics of Tubes, Wire Grids and Field Cages
• Amplification of Ionization
• Creation of the Signal
• Electronics for Drift Chambers
• Coordinate Measurement and Fundamental Limits of Accuracy
• Geometrical Track Parameters and their Errors
• Ion Gates
• Particle Identification by Measurement of Ionization
• Existing Drift Chambers #x2013; An Overview
• Drift-Chamber Gases.