Introduction to Radiation Detectors and Electronics
Helmuth Spieler
Lecture Notes - Physics 198, Spring Semester 1998 - UC Berkeley
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Preface (8K)
I. Introduction (10KB)
- Why?
- Some Applications
II.
Functional Components of a Detector System (20K)
III.
Scintillation Detectors (643K)
IV.
Energy Deposition and Spectrum Formation in the Detector (409K)
V. Semiconductor Detectors - Part I
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Principles of Semiconductor Detectors (440K)
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Signal Amplification (72K)
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Resolution and Signal-to-Noise Ratio (237K)
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Pulse Shaping (257K)
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Timing Measurements (117K)
VI.
Position-Sensitive Detectors (222K)
VII.
Digitization of Pulse Height (67K)
VIII. Semiconductor Detectors - Part II
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The Detector Signal (797K)
- A Semiconductor Device Primer
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Bipolar Transistors (153K)
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Field Effect Transistors (360K)
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Noise in Transistors (163K)
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Rate of Noise Pulses in Threshold Discriminator Systems (34K)
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Photodiodes (131K)
IX.
Development of a Tracker Concept (746K)
X.
Why Things Don't Work (410K)
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