Title: Measurement and Detection of Radiation, 5th Edition Author: Nicholas Tsoulfanidis, Sheldon Landsberger ISBN: 0367434016 / 9780367434014 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 642 Publisher: CRC Press Year: 2021 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Description
Contents
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