INDEX 757
Index
1 /fnoise, 514
absorbed dose, 605
acceptor impurity, 254
activation, 26
active dosimetry, 636
activity, 612
ADC, 498
conversion methods, 500
AES, 698
afterglow, 329
air kerma, 637
ALARA principle, 661
aliasing, 424, 431
alpha particle, 53
accelerator based sources, 54
alpha particle spectroscopy, 692
amplification, 493
annealing, 305
annihilation, 77, 124
antialiasing, 424
APD, 405
bandwidth, 415
charge multiplication, 407
gain, 407
leakage current, 413
noise, 414
quantum efficiency, 411
radiation damage, 415
responsivity, 411
atomic displacements, 255
attachment coefficient, 159
attenuation coefficient
linear, 98
mass, 99
measurements, 101
Auger electron, 7, 86, 686
Auger recombination, 262
avalanche multiplication, 163
shape, 165
avalanche photodiode, 301band gap, 250
baseline shift, 488
Bateman equation, 19
Baye’s theorem, 529
beam size, 623
beta decay
endpoint energy, 44
Bethe-Bloch formula, 113
binomial distribution, 536
Birk’s formula, 341
Birk’s law, 341
Blanc’s law, 155
Bragg curve, 116
Bragg peak, 116
Bragg-Gray cavity theory, 619
branching ratio, 24
breakdown, 166
bremsstrahlung, 33, 70, 79, 97, 124,
127
bubble chamber, 221, 242CAMAC standard, 725
cathode ray tube (CRT), 745
CCD, 451
cema, 618
central limit theorem, 539
charge multiplication, 230, 407
charge recombination, 234
charged particle
passage through matter, 110
stopping power, 110
charged particles, 105
energy straggling, 117
interactions
Rutherford scattering, 105
range, 118
range stragglling, 118
Cherenkov detector, 240