World Scientific Series in 20th Century Physics - Vol. 6
RESEARCH ON PARTICLE IMAGING DETECTORS
edited by Georges Charpak (CERN)
Much instrumentation has been developed for imaging the trajectories of elementary particles produced in high energy collisions. Since 1968, gaseous detectors, beginning with multiwire chambers and drift chambers, have been used for the visualisation of particle trajectories and the imaging of X-rays, neutrons, hard gamma rays, beta rays and ultraviolet photons.
This book commemorates the groundbreaking research leading to the evolution of such detectors carried out at CERN by Georges Charpak, Nobel Prizewinner for Physics in 1992. Besides collecting his key papers, the book also includes original linking commentary which sets his work in the context of other worldwide research.
Contents:
- Low Energy Nuclear Physics with Gaseous Detectors:
1950–1959
- Detectors with Optical Imaging: 1956–1992
- Filmless Spark Chambers: 1962–1967
- Wire Chambers and Drift Chambers: 1968–1994
- Multistep Avalanche Chambers: 1978–1990
- Imaging of Vacuum Ultra Violet Photons. Application to Cerenkov and Gamma Imaging
- Miscellaneous Detectors: 1962–1994
- Applications of Detectors to Biology or Medicine: 1970–1992
Readership: Nuclear physicists, particle physicists and applied physicists.
| 688pp |
Pub. date: Jul 1995 |
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