This book, like its first edition, addresses the fundamental principles of interaction between radiation and matter and the principle of particle detectors in a wide scope of fields, from low to high energy, including space physics and the medical environment. It provides abundant information about...

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Main Author:	Leroy, Claude 1947- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Singapore World Scientific Pub. Co. c2009
Edition:	2nd ed
Subjects:	Detectors Radiation / Measurement Radiologie Wechselwirkung Detektion Materie Strahlungsdetektor Strahlung
Online Access:	FHN01 Volltext
Summary:	This book, like its first edition, addresses the fundamental principles of interaction between radiation and matter and the principle of particle detectors in a wide scope of fields, from low to high energy, including space physics and the medical environment. It provides abundant information about the processes of electromagnetic and hadronic energy deposition in matter, detecting systems, and performance and optimization of detectors. In this second edition, new sections dedicated to the following topics are included: space and high-energy physics radiation environment, non-ionizing energy loss (NIEL), displacement damage in silicon devices and detectors, single event effects, detection of slow and fast neutrons with silicon detectors, solar cells, pixel detectors, and additional material for dark matter detectors. This book will benefit graduate students and final-year undergraduates as a reference and supplement for courses in particle, astroparticle, and space physics and instrumentation. A part of it is directed toward courses in medical physics. The book can also be used by researchers in experimental particle physics at low, medium, and high energy who are dealing with instrumentation
Physical Description:	xix, 930 p. ill. (some col.)
ISBN:	9789812818294