Measurement Techniques in Nuclear Science

3 ECTS credits
90 u studietijd

Aanbieding 1 met studiegidsnummer 4016098FNR voor alle studenten in het 2e semester met een gespecialiseerd master niveau.

Semester

2e semester

Inschrijving onder examencontract

Niet mogelijk

Beoordelingsvoet

Beoordeling (0 tot 20)

2e zittijd mogelijk

Inschrijvingsvereisten

Registration for 'Measurement Techniques in Nuclear Science' is allowed if one is registered for or has successfully accomplished 'Medical Physics' and 'Nuclear Physics'.

Onderwijstaal

Engels

Onder samenwerkingsakkoord

Onder interuniversitair akkoord mbt. opleiding

Faculteit

Faculteit Ingenieurswetenschappen

Verantwoordelijke vakgroep

Ondersteunende klinische wetenschappen

Onderwijsteam

Peter Covens
Nico Buls (titularis)
Thierry Gevaert
Gert Van Gompel

Onderdelen en contacturen

20 contacturen Hoorcollege
12 contacturen Werkcolleges, practica en oefeningen

Inhoud

Introduction
- Documentation
- A few words about units and physical constants
- Special relativity
- Probability and statistics
- The structure of matter at the subatomuic scale

Interactions of particles in matter
- Energy loss of charged particles
- Multiple scattering
- Cherenkov effect
- Bremsstrahlung
- Interactions of x-rays and gamma rays in matter
- Interactions of particles in matter due to the strong force
- Neutrino interactions and examples

Natural and man made sources of radiation
- Natural sources of radiation
- Units of radiation and radiation protection
- Electrostatic accelerators
- Cyclotrons
- Synchrotrons and colliders
- Linear accelerators
- Secondary beams
- Applications of accelerators
- Outlook

Detectors based in ionisation in gases
- Introduction to detectors for subatomic particles
- Ionisation and charge transport in gaseas Ionisation chambers
- Counters with gas amplification
- Applications of counters with gas amplification
- Micro-pattern gas amplification counters

Semiconductor detectors
- Introduction to semiconductors
- The semiconductor junction as a detector
- Silicon semiconductor detectors
- Germanium semiconductor detectors
- Other semiconductor detector materials.

Detectors based on scintillation
- Introduction to scintillators
- Organic scintillator
- Inorganic scintillators
- Photodetector Using scintillators in the nuclear energy range
- Applications of scintillators in high-energy physics
- Applications of scintillators in medicine

Nuclear electronics
- Introduction
- Amplifiers for nuclear electronics
- Noise

Studiemateriaal

Handboek (Vereist) : Experimental techniques in Nuclear and particle physics, A. Hermanne, S. Tavernier, Springer, 9783642426025, 2010

Bijkomende info

The venue for the lectures is at the VUB, and the timing is second half of 1st semester.
There are also two days of lab sessions. These take place on two different days with at least two days in between.
This course can be taken on its own. However, I strongly advise to take this course together with
the course on Nuclear physics by A. Hermanne. The lectures are based on the handbook " Experimental techniques in Nuclear and particle physics". S. Tavernier, Springer 2010.
Lectures notes are available from http://w3.iihe.ac.be/~stavern/
The file is password protected. The password is "Tav2907VUB"

Leerresultaten

Algemene competenties

The aim of these lectures is to teach the students the physical principles of the interaction of ionising radiation and subatomic particles with matter and to introduce them to the instrumentation and methods used in the detection of subatomic particles and ionising radiation, and give an overview of accelerators.

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