Physics and Engineering of Radiation Detection

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758 INDEX


Cherenkov radiation, 125, 240
cherenkov radiation, 80
chi-square distribution, 542
chi-square test, 552
coaxial cable, 477
coincidence spectroscopy, 720
Compton continuum, 676
Compton edge, 675
Compton scattering, 87
confidence intervals, 546
confidence tests, 551
conservation laws, 74
electrical charge, 76
energy, 75
momentum, 75
continuous discharge, 169
convolution, 428
correlation, 558
Pearsonr, 559
Coulomb scattering
multiple, 118
Counting Statistics, 565
CR-RC pulse shaping, 481
critical energy, 128
cross section, 67
crosstalk, 424
cumulative distribution function, 530
CVD diamond, 306, 645


dark current, 398
de Broglie, 3
de Broglie wavelength, 3
dead time, 194
decay
Auger electron, 7
internal conversion, 6
delay line pulse shaping, 480
delta electrons, 620
delta rays, 653
Detection Limits, 565
detective quantum efficiency, 209
detector efficiency, 207
quantum, 208
diamond detector, 306
charge recombination, 307
CVD diamond, 306
drift of charges, 308
leakage current, 310
radiation hardness, 311


diamond dosimeter, 645
diffusion, 152
coefficient, 152
digital filtering, 508
digital signal processing, 506
discriminator, 718
disk chopper spectrometer, 707
donor impurity, 255
dopant luminescence, 352
doping, 252
with acceptor impurity, 254
with donor impurity, 255
dose, 604, 649
absorbed, 611
internal, 624
units of
roentgen, 605
dose rate, 604
drift, 152
electrons, 155, 226
ions, 227
of ions, 153
velocity, 154

edge spread function, 433
EELS, 699
effective dose, 607
efficiency, 194
elastic
inelastic, 77
electromagnetic, 3
electron, 41
Auger, 86
drift, 226
electron gun, 42
energy straggling, 130
interaction modes, 122
Bhabha scattering, 123
bremsstrahlung, 124
Cherenkov radiation, 125
electron-positron annihilation, 124
impact ionization, 123
ionization, 122
Moeller scattering, 123
mobility, 226
passage through matter, 127
radioactive sources, 43
range, 132
saturation velocity, 226
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