Advanced Detection Systems for Detection of Ionizing Radiation Particles

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Department of Dosimetry and Application of Ionizing Radiation

Synopsis:

Goals:

To broaden the knowledge of students who has previously absolved lecture on Ionizing radiation detectors in magister curriculum (or similar lecture). More advanced, less common and more sophisticated detectors are included. The aim is to specifically to broaden the knowledge, not deepen, i.e. to introduce as many detector types as possible, not to precisely analyze function and construction of one (or few) parcticular detector type.

Synopsis:

Principles, constructiion, parameters and applications of position sensitive detectors, detectors for particle physics and other less common detectors. Special spectrometrical measurement.

Topics:

1) Gamma spectrometry applying coincidence measurement (anti-Compton, pair spectrometer, sum-coincidence)

2) Neutron spectrometry (plastic scintillators, other detectors based on elastic scattering, 3He proportional counters, TOF method, Bonner spectrometer, n-gamma pulse shape discrimination)

3) Alternatives to photomultipliers; photosensitive sensors for scintillators and Cherenkov detectors (HPMT, photodiodes, avalanche photodiodes, SiPM, GEM, microchannel plates, streak camera)

4) Position sensitive detectors (semiconductors, PMTs, gaseous detectors, fiber scintillators, TFT)

5) „Rare event“ detection: Neutrino detectors, Double beta decay detection, dark matter detection

6) Detectors used in contemporary particle physics experiments

7) Other detectors (TEPC, Self-powered detectors, DIS, fluorescent screens, hybrid detectors)

Requirements:

Knowledge equivalent to lecture Detectors of Ionizing Radiation obtained in magister curriculum (Departement of Dosimetry, FNSPE, CTU in Prague).

Syllabus of lectures:

Topics:

1) Gamma spectrometry applying coincidence measurement (anti-Compton, pair spectrometer, sum-coincidence)

2) Neutron spectrometry (plastic scintillators, other detectors based on elastic scattering, 3He proportional counters, TOF method, Bonner spectrometer, n-gamma pulse shape discrimination)

3) Alternatives to photomultipliers; photosensitive sensors for scintillators and Cherenkov detectors (HPMT, photodiodes, avalanche photodiodes, SiPM, GEM, microchannel plates, streak camera)

4) Position sensitive detectors (semiconductors, PMTs, gaseous detectors, fiber scintillators, TFT)

5) „Rare event“ detection: Neutrino detectors, Double beta decay detection, dark matter detection

6) Detectors used in contemporary particle physics experiments

7) Other detectors (TEPC, Self-powered detectors, DIS, fluorescent screens, hybrid detectors)

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Study Objective:

Goals:

To broaden the knowledge of students who has previously absolved lecture on Ionizing radiation detectors in magister curriculum (or similar lecture). More advanced, less common and more sophisticated detectors are included. The aim is to specifically to broaden the knowledge, not deepen, i.e. to introduce as many detector types as possible, not to precisely analyze function and construction of one (or few) parcticular detector type.

Study materials:

Basic:

1. Glenn F. Knoll: Radiation Detection and Measurement, 4th edition, 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

2. Syed N. Ahmed: Physics & Enginnering of Radiation Detection, 2007 Elsevier, Amsterdam

3. Gerhard Lutz: ?Semiconductor Radiation Detectors?, Springer-Verlag 2007, ISBN: 978-3-540-71678-5

Recommended:

4. H. Spieler: Semiconductor Detector Systems, 2005 Oxford University Press, Oxford

5. D. Green: The Physics of Particle Detectors, 2000 Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

6. C. Grupen, B. Shwartz: Particle Detectors, 2nd edition, 2008 Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

7. Leonardo Rossi, Peter Fischer, Tilman Rohe, Norbert Wermes: ?Pixel Detectors: From Fundamentals to Applications?, Springer-Verlag 2006, ISBN: 978-3-540-28332-4

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