Cryogenic Particle Detection

The development of cryogenic devices for particle detection has reached a stage at which many interesting applications are conceivable and already have been demonstrated. The book provides a comprehensive review of the field of cryogenic particle detection. It introduces the different detection techniques and gives an overview of the important areas in which these detectors are successfully applied.

List of contents

Thermal Equilibrium Calorimeters - An Introduction.- Semiconductor Thermistors.- Transition-Edge Sensors.- Metallic Magnetic Calorimeters.- Quantum Giaever Detectors.- Electron Probe Microanalysis.- Dark Matter Direct Detection.- X-Ray Astronomy and Astrophysics.- Optical/UV Astrophysics Applications of Cryogenic Detectors .- Beta Decay Experiments.- Heavy Ion Physics.- Index.

Summary

The development of cryogenic devices for particle detection has reached a stage at which many interesting applications are conceivable and already have been demonstrated. The book provides a comprehensive review of the field of cryogenic particle detection. It introduces the different detection techniques and gives an overview of the important areas in which these detectors are successfully applied.

Product details

• Assisted by: Christia Enss (Editor), Christian Enss (Editor), Hans-Christian Stahl (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.10.2010
• EAN: 9783642057588
• ISBN: 978-3-642-05758-8
• No. of pages: 510
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 28 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 785 g
• Illustrations: XVI, 510 p.
• Series: Topics in Applied Physics; Topics in Applied Physics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Atomic physics, nuclear physics; B, Ingenieurswesen, Maschinenbau allgemein, engineering, Condensed Matter Physics, Condensed matter, Materials / States of matter, Physics and Astronomy, Accelerator Physics, Particle acceleration, Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics, Engineering: general, Engineering, general, Technology and Engineering