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Proceedings of the ICFA School on Instrumentation in Elementary Particle Physics : Trieste, Italy, June 1987 /

"This is a two-week summer school attended by an international group of about seventy students at the PhD level. The self-contained and thorough lectures cover the underlying principles of modern detectors and applications in a variety of areas. This didactic introduction of Modern Concepts in...

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Corporate Authors: ICFA School on Instrumentation in Elementary Particle Physics Trieste, Italy); World Scientific (Firm)
Group Author: Fabjan, C. W. (Editor); Pilcher, J. E. (James E.) (Editor)
Published: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd.,
Publisher Address: Singapore :
Publication Dates: 1988.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Particles (Nuclear physics) > Instruments > Congresses.
Particles (Nuclear physics) > Technique > Congresses.
Astrophysics > Instruments > Congresses.
Electronic books.
Online Access: http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/0610#t=toc
Summary: "This is a two-week summer school attended by an international group of about seventy students at the PhD level. The self-contained and thorough lectures cover the underlying principles of modern detectors and applications in a variety of areas. This didactic introduction of Modern Concepts in Particle Detection provides an excellent opportunity for established researchers in particle physics to refresh their knowledge, or for students to become acquainted with current techniques. There are no equivalent text books existing."--
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (542 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9789814541787
9789971506377
Index Number: QC785
CLC: O572.2-532
Contents: Interactions of Charged Particles and Photons in Matter -- Energy Loss of Particles in Dense Matter Calorimetry -- Drift and Detection of Charges in Silicon Detectors -- Detector Signal Processing -- An Experimentalist's Overview of the Parallel Development of Accelerators and Detectors -- High Energy Cosmic Rays and Astrophysics -- Non-Accelerator Experiments for Proton-Decay, Monopole Detection and Neutrino Astrophysics -- Radiation Detectors in Medicine -- Playing with Multiwire Chambers -- Drift Chamber Studies -- Lifetime of Cosmic Ray Muons -- Silicon Detector and Signal Processing Experiment.

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