Wow! eBook
Imaging gaseous detectors and their applications
Author(s): Eugenio Nappi (Author), Vladimir Peskov (Author)
- Publisher: Wiley-VCH
- Publication Date: 16 Jan. 2013
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 356 pages
- ISBN-10: 3527408983
- ISBN-13: 9783527408986
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Each of us will find in this book some corner of our own memory, the significance of our own gaseous detector in recent and current experiments, together with a touch of the new in exploring the many possible applications of gas counters in medicine, biology or homeland security and – when closing the book – the compelling need to stay in the lab. Chapeau!.” (CERN Courier, 26 April 2013)
From the Inside Flap
This authored title gives a comprehensive description of modern gaseous
detectors of photons and charged particles, a technology and devices
widely used in physics experiments and industrial applications. In the
last decade, a new generation of position-sensitive gaseous detectors
has appeared: the micropattern gaseous detectors, which are inspiring
and stimulating new directions in all the fields where imaging techniques
are exploited.
From the contents:
?? Imaging of photons and charged particles
?? Basic physics processes occurring in gaseous detectors
?? Traditional position-sensitive gaseous detectors and their historical development
?? MWPC era
?? Parallel Plate Avalanche Chambers and Resistive Plate Chambers
?? Micropattern gaseous detectors
?? Applications of imaging gaseous detectors
From the Back Cover
This authored title gives a comprehensive description of modern gaseous
detectors of photons and charged particles, a technology and devices
widely used in physics experiments and industrial applications. In the
last decade, a new generation of position-sensitive gaseous detectors
has appeared: the micropattern gaseous detectors, which are inspiring
and stimulating new directions in all the fields where imaging techniques
are exploited.
From the contents:
?? Imaging of photons and charged particles
?? Basic physics processes occurring in gaseous detectors
?? Traditional position-sensitive gaseous detectors and their historical development
?? MWPC era
?? Parallel Plate Avalanche Chambers and Resistive Plate Chambers
?? Micropattern gaseous detectors
?? Applications of imaging gaseous detectors
About the Author
Dr. Eugenio Nappi is Director of Research at the INFN (Italian Institute for Research in Nuclear Physics). Since the beginning of his career, he has had a keen interest in the experimental aspects of CERN’s physics program of ultra-relativistic collisions of heavy ions at the SPS and subsequently, in the conception and development of the ALICE experiment at the LHC. He is the author and co-author of more than 200 papers published in international journals as well as member of the International Scientific Advisory and Organizing Committees in several conferences and workshops on nuclear physics instrumentation.
Prof. Vladimir Peskov is a chief scientist at the Institute for Chemical Physics Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). He worked in the Physics Laboratory RAS led by P. L. Kapitza where he discovered and studied a new type of plasma instability. In 1986 he obtained an Associate Scientist position at CERN in G. Charpak’s group and later spent most of his career working at various Scientific Institutions (CERN, Fermi National Laboratory, NASA and the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) on the instrumentation for high energy physics, astrophysics and medicine. He is the author and co-author of more than one hundred publications and twelve International Patents, member of the International Scientific Advisory and Organizing Committees in several conferences and workshops on instrumentation for high energy physics.
