This is the resource that engineers turn to in the study of radiation detection. The fourth edition takes into account the technical developments that continue to enhance the instruments and techniques available for the detection and spectroscopy of ionizing radiation. New coverage is presented on ROC curves, micropattern gas detectors, new sensors for scintillation light, and the excess noise factor. Revised discussions are also included on TLDs and cryogenic spectrometers, radiation backgrounds, and the VME standard. Engineers will gain a strong understanding of the field with this updated book.
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A new edition of the most comprehensive text/reference available on the methods and instrumentation used in the detection of ionizing radiation. Updated to reflect advances since the first edition came out in 1979. Retains the general organization of the first edition--all topics of importance are covered in sufficient detail to lead the reader from basic principles to examples of modern applications. Covers modern engineering practice; provides useful design information; and contains an up-to-date and thorough review of the literature.
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This Tome contains so much useful information on the art and science of radiation detection that I hardly can believe I got along without it. Don't let the steep price discourage you. This book is a must-have for any high energy experimental physics graduate student or even undergraduate. It fills many of the gaps between traditional course books and real-world experience and has a series of encyclopedic bibliographies to boot
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This book is a must for anyone working in the field of radiation detection, and contains a clear, readable description of the working principles of quite a lot of detector types. The weaker point is the description of the associated front end (analogue) electronics that goes with those detectors: it is a bit concise.
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Quite simply, this book is indispensable for nuclear engineers, health physicists, plasma and high energy physicists, and anyone else that works with ionizing radiation detectors on a regular basis.
I have taught a lab course for junior undergraduate and beginning graduate students at a university using the 3rd edition of this book, and found its explanations comprehensive and technically sound. When students didn't understand the concepts presented in class, I found later that more often than not they hadn't read the book thoroughly or attempted the end-of-chapter problems. If I get the opportunity to teach a similar class, I look forward to using the 4th edition. The book has also been a handy resource for my research, mostly chapter 3, which explains counting statistics in a succinct, understandable way that pure mathematics textbooks typically lack. The 4th edition fixes a lot of the errata from the 3rd edition, but otherwise is largely unchanged. That's not a bad thing, as the 3rd edition was still excellent. There is some new and updated material as well. I bought the 3rd edition used and later wished I hadn't, as I got a lot of use out of the book and it became damaged rather easily. I got the 4th edition new, and I expect it to be on my shelf for decades to come.
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differential pulse height distribution, proportional gases, prompt coincidence peak, amplitude walk, scintillator decay time, dead time behavior, differential pulse height spectrum, original ion pairs, fiber scintillators, ballistic deficit, soft beta particles, coaxial germanium detectors, fast neutron spectroscopy, optimum shaping time, intrinsic peak efficiency, leading edge triggering, lithium iodide scintillator, measured pulse height spectra, total light yield, chance coincidence rate, recoil proportional counters, detector active volume, gas multiplication process, proportional counter design, counting plateau Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Monte Carlo, Health Phys, Pergamon Press, Academic Press, International Commission, Elsevier-North Holland, National Academy of Sciences, Variants of the Proportional Counter Design, Alberigi Quaranta, Cambridge University Press, Configurations of Germanium Detectors, Nuclear Tracks, Oak Ridge, Semiconductor Detector Configurations, Specialized Detector Configurations Based, University of California Press, Ann Arbor, Applied Gamma-Ray Spectrometry, K-series X-rays, Nuclear Power Reactor Instrumentation Systems Handbook, Nuclear Radiation Detection, Nuclear Radiation Detectors, Table of Isotopes, Trans Nucl New!
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The radiations of primary concern in this text originate in atomic or nuclear processes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
differential pulse height distribution, proportional gases, prompt coincidence peak, amplitude walk, scintillator decay time, dead time behavior, differential pulse height spectrum, original ion pairs, fiber scintillators, ballistic deficit, soft beta particles, coaxial germanium detectors, fast neutron spectroscopy, optimum shaping time, intrinsic peak efficiency, leading edge triggering, lithium iodide scintillator, measured pulse height spectra, total light yield, chance coincidence rate, recoil proportional counters, detector active volume, gas multiplication process, proportional counter design, counting plateau Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Monte Carlo, Health Phys, Pergamon Press, Academic Press, International Commission, Elsevier-North Holland, National Academy of Sciences, Variants of the Proportional Counter Design, Alberigi Quaranta, Cambridge University Press, Configurations of Germanium Detectors, Nuclear Tracks, Oak Ridge, Semiconductor Detector Configurations, Specialized Detector Configurations Based, University of California Press, Ann Arbor, Applied Gamma-Ray Spectrometry, K-series X-rays, Nuclear Power Reactor Instrumentation Systems Handbook, Nuclear Radiation Detection, Nuclear Radiation Detectors, Table of Isotopes, Trans Nucl New!
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