Research on Particle Imaging Detectors

Much instrumentation has been developed for imaging the trajectories of elementary particles produced in high energy collisions. Since 1968, gaseous detectors, beginning with multiwire chambers and drift chambers, have been used for the visualisation of particle trajectories and the imaging of X-rays, neutrons, hard gamma rays, beta rays and ultraviolet photons.

This book commemorates the groundbreaking research leading to the evolution of such detectors carried out at CERN...
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Much instrumentation has been developed for imaging the trajectories of elementary particles produced in high energy collisions. Since 1968, gaseous detectors, beginning with multiwire chambers and drift chambers, have been used for the visualisation of particle trajectories and the imaging of X-rays, neutrons, hard gamma rays, beta rays and ultraviolet photons.

This book commemorates the groundbreaking research leading to the evolution of such detectors carried out at CERN by Georges Charpak, Nobel Prizewinner for Physics in 1992. Besides collecting his key papers, the book also includes original linking commentary which sets his work in the context of other worldwide research.Contents: Low Energy Nuclear Physics with Gaseous Detectors: 1950 1959Detectors with Optical Imaging: 1956 1992Filmless Spark Chambers: 1962 1967Wire Chambers and Drift Chambers: 1968 1994Multistep Avalanche Chambers: 1978 1990Imaging of Vacuum Ultra Violet Photons. Application to Cerenkov and Gamma ImagingMiscellaneous Detectors: 1962 1994Applications of Detectors to Biology or Medicine: 1970 1992
Readership: Nuclear physicists, particle physicists and applied physicists.
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