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Experimental Techniques in Nuclear and Particle Physics

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Authors:
  1. Stefaan Tavernier

    1. Fak. Wetenschappen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Bruxelles, Belgium

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  • Interdisciplinary approach to particle techniques and accelerators, suitable for all fields (nuclear and particle physics, and nuclear and biomedical engineering)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-22Open Access
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  3. Interactions of Particles in Matter

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    Pages 23-53Open Access
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  4. Natural and Man-Made Sources of Radiation

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    Pages 55-103Open Access
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  5. Detectors Based on Ionisation in Gases

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    Pages 105-142Open Access
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  6. Detectors Based on Ionisation in Semiconductor Materials

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    Pages 143-165Open Access
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  7. Detectors Based on Scintillation

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    Pages 167-208Open Access
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  8. Neutron Detection

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    Pages 209-224Open Access
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  9. Electronics for Particle Detectors

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    Pages 225-269Open Access
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  10. Correction to: Experimental Techniques in Nuclear and Particle Physics

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    Pages C1-C1Open Access
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  11. Back Matter

    Pages 271-306
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About this book

I have been teaching courses on experimental techniques in nuclear and particle physics to master students in physics and in engineering for many years. This book grew out of the lecture notes I made for these students. The physics and engineering students have rather different expectations of what such a course should be like. I hope that I have nevertheless managed to write a book that can satisfy the needs of these different target audiences. The lectures themselves, of course, need to be adapted to the needs of each group of students. An engineering student will not qu- tion a statement like “the velocity of the electrons in atoms is ?1% of the velocity of light”, a physics student will. Regarding units, I have written factors h and c explicitly in all equations throughout the book. For physics students it would be preferable to use the convention that is common in physics and omit these constants in the equations, but that would probably be confusing for the engineering students. Physics students tend to be more interested in theoretical physics courses. However, physics is an experimental science and physics students should und- stand how experiments work, and be able to make experiments work.

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  • Fak. Wetenschappen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Bruxelles, Belgium

    Stefaan Tavernier

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