Atomic And Nuclear Physics

11

Radiation Detectors

THIS CHAPTER COVERS…

• The types of radiation detectors.
• The gaseous detectors, solid state detectors and visual techniques of particle detections.
• The general working of gas filled detectors and their performance in various voltage regions.
• Construction features and details of dead time, resolving time, recovery time etc. of G.M. counter.
• Quenching process and escape peak phenomena in gas detectors.
• Construction, working and application of visual techniques such as cloud chamber, bubble chamber, diffusion cloud chamber and nuclear emulsions.
• Cerenkov detector and liquid scintillation detectors.
• Neutron and neutrino detection methods.

11.1 TYPES OF DETECTORS

Nuclear detectors are devices which are used for the detection ...