Particle Detectors
Contributors: Shwartz, Boris
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology -- v.26; Cambridge monographs on particle physics, nuclear physics, and cosmology
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 677
ISBN-13: 9780511380037
Description: Reference on particle detectors for graduate students and researchers in particle physics.
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half-title; Series Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first 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; title: 13 Example of a general-purpose detector: Belle14 Electronics; 15 Data analysis; 16 Applications of particle detectors outside particle physics; Re sume ; 17 Glossary; 18 Solutions; Appendix 1: Table of fundamental physical constants; Appendix 2: Definition and conversion of physical units; Appendix 3: Properties of pure and composite materials; Appendix 4: Monte Carlo event generators; Appendix 5: Decay-level schemes; Index