Physics and Engineering of Radiation Detection
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Preface Contrary to common perception, radiation has enormous potential of benefiting mankind. For example, use of radiation in ...
tion, drift and diffusion of charges, avalanche creation, and breakdown have been thoroughly discussed with necessary mathematic ...
actually kept encouraging me all the way through. Without her support, it would not have been possible at all to write this book ...
1 Chapter 1 Properties and Sources of Radiation Mass and energy are the two entities that make up our Universe. At the most ba- ...
2 Chapter 1. Properties and Sources of Radiation modern physics, one can associate a wavelength to every particle whether it car ...
1.2. Waves or Particles? 3 the photoelectric effect, an effect in which a photon having the right amount of energy knocks off a ...
4 Chapter 1. Properties and Sources of Radiation Example: Compare the de Broglie wavelengths of a proton and an alpha particle m ...
1.3. Radioactivity and Radioactive Decay 5 calledfission fragementsand emits several neutrons. But this is not the only mode of ...
6 Chapter 1. Properties and Sources of Radiation Electron capture:^8136 Kr+e →^8135 Br + γ + ν Positron decay:^4019 K →^4018 Ar ...
1.3. Radioactivity and Radioactive Decay 7 The process of internal conversion can occur to electrons in any electronic orbit. If ...
8 Chapter 1. Properties and Sources of Radiation decay by proton emission is the decay of Indium-109, which decays with a half l ...
1.3. Radioactivity and Radioactive Decay 9 of electronic transitions between atomic levels. The particles that are not emitted f ...
10 Chapter 1. Properties and Sources of Radiation isotope is expected to go through. If the energy comes out to be negative then ...
1.3. Radioactivity and Radioactive Decay 11 α-decay: Qα=(MX−MY−Mα)c^2 β-decay: Qβ=(MX−MY)c^2 HereMstands for atomic mass, which ...
12 Chapter 1. Properties and Sources of Radiation decay constant. In this book the subscriptdinλdwill be used to distinguish it ...
1.3. Radioactivity and Radioactive Decay 13 What this equation essentially implies is that the experimental determination of the ...
14 Chapter 1. Properties and Sources of Radiation well. In fact, whenever a new radionuclide is discovered its half life is one ...
1.3. Radioactivity and Radioactive Decay 15 Since half life represents the time taken by half of the atoms in a sample to decay, ...
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