760 INDEX
Johnson noise, 398
Johnson’s noise, 511
kerma, 615
kurtosis, 532
Landau distribution, 130
laser, 36
lattice excitations, 255
leakage current, 310, 413
light guide, 361
limited proportionality region, 166
line spread function, 432
lineal energy, 650
linear energy transfer, 622, 635, 649
liquefied noble gases, 234, 359
liquid scintillation detector, 243
liquid xenon, 359
logic levels
NIM, 724
logic standards
ECL, 495
NIM, 495
TTL, 495
mass spectroscopy, 710
MATLAB , 591
maximum likelihood method, 533, 537,
539, 544
likelihood function, 534
log-likelihood function, 534
maximum likelihood function, 557
Maxwellian distribution, 69
MCA, 694
mean free path, 68
capture, 159, 237
measures of centrality, 526
measures of dispersion, 528
microdosimetry, 624, 649
microstrip detector, 301
microstrip gas chamber, 445
moderation, 191
modular instrumentation, 721
modulation transfer function, 434
moments, 531
MOSFET dosimeter, 643
multi channel analyzer, 497, 674
multimeter, 743
analog, 744
digital, 744
multiplication factor, 184
multiwire drift detector, 445
multiwire proportional chamber, 441
muon, 56neutrino, 5, 56, 242
neutron, 48, 137
composite sources, 50
elastic scattering, 138
fission, 139
fusion sources, 51
inelastic scattering, 138
nuclear reactors, 51
passage through matter, 140
radiative capture, 139
radioactive sources, 52
spallation sources, 49
thermalization, 191
transmutation, 139
neutron spectroscopy, 699
NEXAFS, 680
NIEL scaling, 302
NIM standard, 721
normal distribution, 539
Nyquist frequency, 425, 590Origin, 586
oscilloscope, 745
analog, 745
digital, 748
electron gun, 746
trigger system, 748
OSL curve, 632
oversampling, 428pair production, 95
triplet, 96
particle fluence, 609
particle flux, 609
Paschen minimum, 168
Paschen’s law, 167, 196
passive dosimetry, 627
PET, 79
phosphor, 456
phosphorescence, 329
photocathode, 367
materials, 372
work function, 367