This course is intended for students having a master degree and or preparing a future master degree in the physical sciences. Depending on their previous education and experience, the course either is of the standard lecture type, or involves the conception, realization and/or installation of particular detectors in response to specific and actual needs.
Main themes
Study and setting up nuclear detectors: electronic aspects included, charged particle spectrometry, electronic aspects of signal treatment, applications.
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)
Prerequisites:Electronics (course PHYS 1281) and Experimental methods (course PHYS 2270).
Support: reference books.
Written support: A. Korff, Nuclear electronics, Springer, 1972; Nuclear instruments and methods, North-Holland (chosen articles); G.F. Knoll, Nuclear radiation detection, Wiley, 1979; W. Leo, Detection of high energy particles, 1989; K. Kleinknecht, Detectors in high energy physics, 1991.