Measurement and Detection of Radiation, 5th Edition

As useful to students and nuclear professionals as its popular predecessors, this fifth edition provides the most up-to-date and accessible introduction to radiation detector materials, systems, and applications. There have been many advances in the field of radiation detection, most notably in practical applications. Incorporating these important developments, Measurement and Detection of Radiation, Fifth Edition provides the most up-to-date and accessible introduction to radiation detector materials, systems, and applications. It also includes more problems and updated references and bibliographies, and step-by-step derivations and numerous examples illustrate key concepts.

New to the Fifth Edition:

• Expanded chapters on semiconductor detectors, data analysis methods, health physics fundamentals, and nuclear forensics.
• Updated references and bibliographies.
• New and expanded problems.

Preface

Chapter 1 : Introduction to Radiation Measurements
Chapter 2 : Errors of Radiation Counting
Chapter 3 : Review of Atomic and Nuclear Physics
Chapter 4 : Energy Loss and Penetration of Radiation through Matter
Chapter 5 : Gas-Filled Detectors
Chapter 6 : Scintillation Detectors
Chapter 7 : Semiconductor Detectors
Chapter 8 : Relative and Absolute Measurements
Chapter 9 : Introduction to Spectroscopy
Chapter 10 : Electronics for Radiation Counting
Chapter 11 : Data Analysis Methods
Chapter 12 : Photon (γ-Ray and X-Ray) Spectroscopy
Chapter 13 : Charged-Particle Spectroscopy
Chapter 14 : Neutron Detection and Spectroscopy
Chapter 15 : Activation Analysis and Related Techniques
Chapter 16 : Health Physics Fundamentals
Chapter 17 : Nuclear Forensics
Chapter 18 : Nuclear Medicine Instrumentation

Index