PARTICLE PHYSICS: EXPERIMENTAL INSIGHT
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION DOCUMENTATION UNITS AND PHYSICAL CONSTANTS SPECIAL RELATIVITY PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS THE STRUCTURE OF MATTER AT THE MICROSCOPIC SCALE NUCLEI AND NUCLEAR DECAY THE BETA DECAY THE ALPHA DECAY THE GAMMA DECAY ELECTRON CAPTURE AND INTERNAL CONVERSION THE RADIOACTIVE DECAY LAW THE NUCLEAR LEVEL DIAGRAM EXERCISES REFERENCES INTERACTIONS OF PARTICLES IN MATTER CROSS SECTION AND MEAN FREE PATH ENERGY LOSS OF A CHARGED PARTICLE DUE TO ITS INTERACTION WITH THE ELECTRONS OTHER ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS OF CHARGED PARTICLES INTERACTIONS OF X-RAYS AND GAMMA RAYS IN MATTER INTERACTIONS OF PARTICLES IN MATTER DUE TO THE STRONG FORCE NEUTRINO INTERACTIONS ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE INTERACTIONS OF PARTICLES NATURAL AND MAN-MADE SOURCES OF RADIATION NATURAL SOURCES OF RADIATION UNITS OF RADIATION AND RADIATION PROTECTION ELECTROSTATIC ACCELERATORS CYCLOTRONS THE QUEST FOR THE HIGHEST ENERGY, SYNCHROTRONS AND COLLIDERS LINEAR ACCELERATORS SECONDARY BEAMS APPLICATIONS OF ACCELERATORS OUTLOOK 310 EXERCISES DETECTORS BASED ON IONISATION IN GASES INTRODUCTION TO DETECTORS FOR SUBATOMIC PARTICLES IONISATION AND CHARGE TRANSPORT IN GASES IONISATION CHAMBERS COUNTERS WITH GAS AMPLI?CATION APPLICATIONS OF COUNTERS WITH GAS AMPLI?CATION PROPORTIONAL COUNTERS FOR X-RAY DETECTION GAS COUNTERS FOR THE TRACKING OF HIGH-ENERGY CHARGED PARTICLES APPLICATIONS OF GAS COUNTERS IN HOMELAND SECURITY RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN COUNTERS BASED ON GAS AMPLI?CATION MICRO-STRIP GAS COUNTERS (MSGC) GEM AND MICROMEGAS COUNTERS RESISTIVE PLATE CHAMBERS DETECTORS BASED ON IONISATION IN SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS INTRODUCTION TO SEMICONDUCTORS THE SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTION AS A DETECTOR SILICON SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS GERMANIUM SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS OTHER SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTOR MATERIALS DETECTORS BASED ON SCINTILLATION INTRODUCTION TO SCINTILLATORS ORGANIC SCINTILLATORS INORGANIC SCINTILLATORS PHOTODETECTORS USING SCINTILLATORS IN THE NUCLEAR ENERGY RANGE APPLICATIONS OF SCINTILLATORS IN HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS APPLICATIONS OF SCINTILLATORS IN MEDICINE NEUTRON DETECTION SLOW NEUTRON DETECTION NEUTRON DETECTORS FOR NUCLEAR REACTORS FAST NEUTRON DETECTION DETECTORS FOR FAST NEUTRONS BASED ON MODERATION DETECTORS BASED ON THE OBSERVATION OF THE RECOIL NUCLEI REFERENCE ELECTRONICS FOR PARTICLE DETECTORS IMPULSE RESPONSE AND TRANSFER FUNCTION AMPLI?ERS FOR PARTICLE DETECTORS THE THERMAL NOISE OF A RESISTOR RESISTOR AND TRANSISTOR NOISE IN AMPLI?ERS NOISE CONTRIBUTION OF A PARALLEL RESISTOR OR A SERIES RESISTOR NOISE DUE TO THE FIRST TRANSISTOR SHOT NOISE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS SOLUTIONS TO EXERCISES