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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460108403321

Titolo

Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi" [[electronic resource] ] : course CLXXV / / edited by S. Bertolucci and U. Bottigli and P. Olivia : Varenna on Lake Como, Villa Monastero, 20-25 July 2009 : Radiation and Particle Detectors = Rendiconti della Scuola Internazionale di Fisica "Enrico Fermi" : CLXXV corso / a cura di S. Bertolucci e U. Bottigli e di P. Oliva : Varenna Sul Lago di Como, Villa Monastero, 20-25 Luglio 2009 : Rivelatori per radiazione e particelle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : IOS Press, 2010

ISBN

661295616X

1-282-95616-7

9786612956164

1-60750-631-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (202 p.)

Collana

Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi", , 0074-784X ; ; v. 175

Altri autori (Persone)

BertolucciS

BottigliU

OlivaP

Disciplina

622.159

Soggetti

Radiation - Measurement

Nuclear counters

Particles (Nuclear physics)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

At head of title: Italian Physical Society = Soceità Italiana di Fisica.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Title page; Indice; Preface; Gruppo fotografico dei partecipanti al Corso; Detectors for medical physics; Detectors for hadrontherapy; Detection setups in applications of accelerator-based techniques to the analysis of Cultural Heritage; The art of calorimetry; The CMS detector; A gravitational wave detector: The Virgo interferometer; Underwater/ice high-energy neutrino telescopes; Elenco dei partecipanti

Sommario/riassunto

High energy physics (HEP) has a crucial role in the context of fundamental physics. HEP experiments make use of a massive array of sophisticated detectors to analyze the particles produced in high-



energy scattering events. This book contains the papers from the workshop 'Radiation and Particle Detectors', organized by the International School of Physics, and held in Varenna in July 2009. Its subject is the use of detectors for research in fundamental physics, astro-particle physics and applied physics. Subjects covered include the measurement of: the position and length of ionization trails, t