Radiation and Detectors: Introduction to the Physics of Radiation and Detection Devices

by Lucio Cerrito

This textbook provides an introduction to radiation, the principles of interaction between radiation and matter, and the exploitation of those principles in the design of modern radiation detectors. Both radiation and detectors are given equal attention and their interplay is carefully laid out with few assumptions made about the prior knowledge of the student.

Part I is dedicated to radiation, broadly interpreted in terms of energy and type,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319531794
• ISBN13: 9783319531793
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"