Physics and Engineering of Radiation Detection by Syed Naeem Ahmed

By Syed Naeem Ahmed

Physics and Engineering of Radiation Detection offers an summary of the physics of radiation detection and its purposes. It covers the origins and houses of other different types of ionizing radiation, their detection and size, and the tactics used to guard humans and the surroundings from their possibly damaging results. It info the experimental suggestions and instrumentation utilized in diversified detection structures in a really useful manner with out sacrificing the physics content material. It offers precious formulae and explains methodologies to unravel difficulties concerning radiation measurements. With abundance of worked-out examples and end-of-chapter difficulties, this ebook permits the reader to appreciate the underlying actual ideas and their purposes. unique discussions on varied detection media, resembling gases, beverages, liquefied gases, semiconductors, and scintillators make this ebook an outstanding resource of knowledge for college students in addition to execs operating in similar fields. Chapters on data, facts research innovations, software program for facts research, and information acquisition structures give you the reader with valuable talents to layout and construct useful structures and practice info analysis.

  • Covers the trendy recommendations focused on detection and size of radiation and the underlying actual principles
  • Illustrates theoretical and sensible information with an abundance of functional, worked-out examples
  • Provides perform difficulties on the finish of every chapter

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