Gaseous Radiation Detectors: Fundamentals and Applications (Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology, Series Number 36)

Fabio Sauli

ISBN 10: 1107043018 / ISBN 13: 9781107043015

Editore: Cambridge University Press CUP, 2014

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• Titolo: Gaseous Radiation Detectors: Fundamentals and Applications (Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology, Series Number 36)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press CUP
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1107043018
• ISBN 13: 9781107043015
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

Describes the fundamentals and applications of gaseous radiation detection, ideal for researchers and experimentalists in nuclear and particle physics.

Informazioni sull?autore

Fabio Sauli is Research Associate for the Italian TERA Foundation, responsible for the development of medical diagnostic instrumentation for hadrontherapy. Prior to this, he was part of the Research Staff at CERN in the Gas Detectors Development group, initiated by Georges Charpak, before leading the group from 1989 until his retirement in 2006. He has more than 200 scientific publications and is an editor of several books on instrumentation in high energy physics. His achievements include inventing the Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM), which is widely used in advanced detectors.