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Nuclear Instrumentation II / Instrumentelle Hilfsmittel der Kernphysik II
Title:
Nuclear Instrumentation II / Instrumentelle Hilfsmittel der Kernphysik II
ISBN:
9783642459030
Edition:
1st ed. 1958.
Publication Information New:
Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1958.
Physical Description:
VIII, 544 p. 73 illus. online resource.
Series:
Kernphysik / Nuclear Physics ; 8 / 45
Contents:
Ionization Chambers in Nuclear Physics -- I. Introduction -- II. General principles of ionization chamber operation -- III. Events following ionization -- IV. Utilization of the signal -- V. Applications -- Geiger Counters -- I. Introduction -- II. The gas discharge mechanism -- III. Special topics -- IV. Design and use considerations -- References -- Scintillation and ?erenkov Counters -- I. Photomultiplier tubes -- II. Inorganic phosphors -- III. Organic phosphors -- IV. ?erenkov counters -- V. Scintillation and ?erenkov counters for high energy ?- and ?-ray spectroscopy -- The Proportional Counter as Detector and Spectrometer -- A. Historical -- B. The principle of operation -- C. The construction of proportional tubes -- D. The tube as spectrometer -- E. Fields of application -- F. Summation effects -- G. High sensitivity work -- H. Applications of proportional tubes -- The Coincidence Method -- I. General and historical introduction -- II. Coincidence circuits of moderate resolutions (? 1 ? sec) -- III. Fast coincidence circuits -- IV. Coincidence measurements -- Cloud Chambers -- I. The production of tracks in a cloud chamber -- II. The photography of cloud chamber tracks -- III. The measurement of cloud chamber tracks -- IV. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- General references -- The Bubble Chamber -- 1. Introduction -- 2. History of the development of the bubble chamber -- 3. Construction and operation of the bubble chambers -- 4. Microscopic mechanism of bubble nucleation by ionizing events -- 5. Photography of bubble chambers -- 6. Measurements with bubble chambers -- 7. Applications of bubble chambers -- Nuclear Emulsions -- A. Introduction -- B. Principles of particle identification and velocity measurement -- C. Techniques -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: Supplemental bibliography -- Detection of Neutrons -- A. Interactions used for detection -- B. Detecting devices -- C. Applications to various types of measurements -- References -- High Energy Neutron Detectors -- I. General considerations -- II. Detecting devices. -- III. Application of detectors to neutron measurements -- General references -- Sachverzeichnis (Deutsch/Englisch) -- Subject Index (English/German).
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Language:
English