Experimental Techniques in Nuclear Physics

This text provides a reference for those interested in the current modern aspects of the experimental techniques used in nuclear physics: detectors, large instruments and experimental methods. Along with current developments, basic theoretical principles are presented.

Résumé
I-IV -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Gas Filled Detectors -- 2 Scintillation Detectors -- 3 Semiconductor Detectors -- 4 Track Detectors and Soleno applied for Cluster Radioactivities -- 5 New Generation of Gamma-Detector Arrays -- 6 Modern Electron and Positron Spectrometers Selected Aspects of a Broad Field -- 7 Neutron Detectors -- 8 Neutrino Detectors -- 9 Fragment Multi-Detector for the Study of Hot and Dense Nuclear Matter Produced in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Reactions -- 10 Production and Use of Radioactive Beams -- 11 In-Flight Separation of Heavy Ion Beams -- 12 The Measurement of Nuclear Lifetimes -- 13 Particle Identification Using Detector Telescopes -- 14 Particle Decay Study of Oriented Nuclei -- 15 Fission Fragment Mass, Charge and Energy Distributions -- 16 Statistical Fluctuations in Nuclear Processes -- Authors' and Editors' Addresses -- Index

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Track detectors and SOLENO appled for cluster radioactivity; gas-filled detectors; neutron detectors; modern electron and positron spectrometers; neutrino detectors; fission fragment mass, charge and energy distributions; particle identification using detector telescopes; in-flight separation of heavy ion beams; scintillation detectors; production and use of radioactive beams; the measurement of nuclear lifetimes; fragment multi-detector for the study of hot and dense nuclear matter; semiconductor detectors; new generation of gamma-detector arrays; statistical fluctuations in nuclear processes.