Introduction to Radiation Detectors and Electronics

Helmuth Spieler

Lecture Notes – Physics 198, Spring Semester 1998 – UC Berkeley

Table of Contents

Preface	(Preface.pdf, 8K)

I. Introduction  (I-1-Intro.pdf, 10KB)

	1. Why?
	2. Some Applications
		a. Faint-Light Imaging in Astronomy
			(I-2-a-astronomy. pdf, 122K)
		b. Medical Imaging – Positron Emission Tomography
			(I-2-b-pet.pdf, 2012K)
		c. X-Ray Fluorescence
			(I-2-c-x-ray.pdf, 119K)
		d. Vertex Detection in High Energy Physics
			(I-2-d-vertex.pdf, 268K)


II. Functional Components of a Detector System
	(II-Functions.pdf, 20K)

III. Scintillation Detectors
	(III-Scint.pdf, 643K)

IV. Energy Deposition and Spectrum Formation in the Detector
	(IV-E-Deposition, 409K)

V. Semiconductor Detectors – Part I
	1. Principles of Semiconductor Detectors
		(V-1-Principles.pdf, 136K)
	2. Signal Amplification
		(V-2-Signal.pdf, 72K)

	3. Resolution and Signal-to-Noise Ratio
		(V-3-Resolution.pdf, 237K)
	4. Pulse Shaping
		(V-4-Shapers.pdf, 257K)
	5. Timing Measurements
		(V-5-Timing.pdf, 117K)

VI. Position-Sensitive Detectors
	(VI-PSD.pdf, 223K)

VII. Digitization of Pulse Height
	(VII-Digitization.pdf, 67K)

VIII. Semiconductor Detectors – Part II

	1. The Detector Signal
		(VIII-1-Signal.pdf, 797K)
	2. A Semiconductor Device Primer 
		a) Doping and Diodes
			(VIII-2-a-diodes.pdf, 269K)
		b) Imperfections in Crystals
			(VIII-2-b-defects.pdf, 229K)
		c) Fabrication of Semiconductor Devices
			(VIII-2-c-fab.pdf, 124K)
	3. Bipolar Transistors
		(VIII-3-BJT.pdf, 147K) 
	4. Field Effect Transistors
		(VIII-4-FET.pdf, 360K)
	5. Noise in Transistors
		(VIII-5-noise.pdf, 163K)
	6. Rate of Noise Pulses in Threshold Discriminator Systems
		(VIII-6-rate.pdf, 33K)
	7. Photodiodes
		(VIII-7-photodiodes.pdf, 131K)
	
IX. Development of a Tracker Concept
	(IX-Tracker.pdf, 746K)

X. Why Things Don’t Work
	(X-Work.pdf, 277K)