Experimental techniques in high energy physics
By: [edited by] Thomas Ferbel.
Contributors: Ferbel, Thomas.
Series: Frontiers in physics ;; no. 64
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Menlo Park, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 678
Subjects: Particles (Nuclear physics) -- Instruments -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: Particle detectors / K. Kleinknecht; title: Principles of operation of multiwire proportional and drift chambers / F. Sauli; title: High-resolution electronic particle detectors / G. Charpak and F. Sauli; title: Calorimetry in high-energy physics / C. Fabjan; title: Fluctuations in calorimetry measurements / U. Amaldi; title: The physics of charged identification / W.W.M. Allison and P.R.S. Wright; title: A two-dimensional, single-photoelectron drift detector for Cherenkov ring imaging / E. Barrelet ... [et al.]; title: Development of proportional counters using photosensitive gases and liquids / D.F. Anderson; title: Liquid-argon ionization chambers as total absorption detectors / W.J. Willis and V. Radeka; title: Fundamental properties of liquid argon, krypton, and xenon as radiation detector media / T. Doke; title: Signal, noise, and resolution in position-sensitive detectors / V. Radeka; title: Monte Carlo theory and practice / F. James.