基本信息·出版社：Academic Press ·页码：820 页 ·出版日期：2007年02月 ·ISBN：0120455811 ·条形码：9780120455812 ·装帧：精装 ·正文语种：英语 ...
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基本信息·出版社：Academic Press
·页码：820 页
·出版日期：2007年02月
·ISBN：0120455811
·条形码：9780120455812
·装帧：精装
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：辐射探测物理与工程
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This book presents an overview of the physics of radiation detection and its applications. It covers the origins and properties of different kinds of ionizing radiation, their detection and measurement, and the procedures used to protect people and the environment from their potentially harmful effects. It details the experimental techniques and instrumentation used in different detection systems in a very practical way without sacrificing the physics content. It provides useful formulae and explains methodologies to solve problems related to radiation measurements. With abundance of worked-out examples and end-of-chapter problems, this book enables the reader to understand the underlying physical principles and their applications. Detailed discussions on different detection media, such as gases, liquids, liquefied gases, semiconductors, and scintillators make this book an excellent source of information for students as well as professionals working in related fields. Chapters on statistics, data analysis techniques, software for data analysis, and data acquisition systems provide the reader with necessary skills to design and build practical systems and perform data analysis.
* Covers the modern techniques involved in detection and measurement of radiation and the underlying physical principles
* Illustrates theoretical and practical details with an abundance of practical, worked-out examples
* Provides practice problems at the end of each chapter
作者简介 About the Author: The author has several years of extensive practical experience in the field of radiation detection and measurement and holds degrees of Masters in Physics, Masters in Nuclear Engineering, and PhD in Physics. He received a gold medal for outstanding performance in Nuclear Engineering studies from Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad. He carried out his PhD project in one of the best known radiation physics and electronics groups in Germany under the supervision of a very famous physicist in the field, Professor A. H. Walenta of Siegen University. He has been visiting scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics in Munich, Germany and Fermilab in the USA. Fermilab is one of the best-known high energy physics labs in the world and owns the world's highest energy and luminosity proton-antiproton collider, the Tevatron.
Presently the author is at Sudbury Neutrino Observatory in Canada. Here he is responsible for the operations and modifications of the 10,000 channel detector and the operations and upgrades of the monitoring and alarms system of the laboratory. His extensive experience with some of the world's finest and diverse radiation detection systems and hands on experience on them has given him confidence to write a book that can be used for students as well as professionals.
He has also been involved with teaching and supervising undergraduate and graduate students throughout his career. He taught at Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences for about two years at graduate level, offering courses in radiation detection and measurement and laser theory and applications. He also supervised students doing advanced physics laboratories. At Max-Planck-Institute and Fermilab he supervised numerous undergraduate and graduate students. At Sudbury Neutrino Observatory he supervises two PhD students working on different and novel detection systems. He will teach a gr
编辑推荐 Review "Ahmed's book offers the most thorough treatment of the field that this reviewer has encountered so far. After the principles of physics are introduced in the first chapters, all detector technologies relevant for physics, nuclear engineering, and health physics are treated in detail. The author's extensive experience with large- and small-scale detector experiments is apparent. Adding to the book's thoroughness are chapters on radiaion dosimetry and protection as well as one on data acquisition systems, which includes all modern standards used in the field. Worked examples are interspersed liberally throughout and, together with the chapter problems, make this a good teaching resource. Extensive bibliographics at chapter ends will satisfy researcher who need to delve deeper into certain subjects. Clearly written and starting at a level accessible also to undergraduates, this book is for all reader levels in physics and engineering." SUMMING UP: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through professionals; two-year technical program students. -- U. Greife, Colorado School of Mines, CHOICE, OCtober 2007
Review "Ahmed's book offers the most thorough treatment of the field that this reviewer has encountered so far. After the principles of physics are introduced in the first chapters, all detector technologies relevant for physics, nuclear engineering, and health physics are treated in detail. The author's extensive experience with large- and small-scale detector experiments is apparent. Adding to the book's thoroughness are chapters on radiaion dosimetry and protection as well as one on data acquisition systems, which includes all modern standards used in the field. Worked examples are interspersed liberally throughout and, together with the chapter problems, make this a good teaching resource. Extensive bibliographics at chapter ends will satisfy researcher who need to delve deeper into certain subjects. Clearly written and starting at a level accessible also to undergraduates, this book is for all reader levels in physics and engineering." SUMMING UP: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through professionals; two-year technical program students. -- U. Greife, Colorado School of Mines, CHOICE, OCtober 2007
