Introduction to nuclear spectroscopy
Lectures at FNPI CTU at Prague during summer semester
Vladimír Wagner
Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Hlavní 130, 250 68 Řež
E-mail: WAGNER@UJF.CAS.CZ
www: http://www.ujf.cas.cz/en/
1. Introduction
2. History
3. Gamma ray spectrometry
1) Gamma ray interactions with matter
3) Gamma ray spectrum, its acquiring and analysis
4) Detection and spectrometry of high energy gamma rays
6) Applications of gamma spectrometry
4. Spectrometry of electrons and positrons (light charged particles)
1) Interaction of light charged particles with matter
2) Electron detectors and spectrometers
3) Beta spectrum, its acquiring and analysis
4) High energy electron spectrometry, electromagnetic shower and calorimeters
5) Beta spectrometry applications
5. Spectrometry of alpha particles, protons ... (heavy charged particles)
1) Interaction of heavy charged particles with matter
2) Detectors and spectrometers of heavy charged particles
3) Spectrometry of high energy hadrons – hadron shower and calorimeters
4) Application of heavy charged particle spectrometry
6. Neutron spectrometry
1) Interaction of neutrons with matter
2) Energy determination
4) Neutron spectrometry applications
7. Neutrino spectrometry
3) Neutrino spectrometry applications
Recommended literature:
1) K. Siegbahn: Alpha-, Beta- and Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy, Amsterdam, 1965
2) Fay Ajzenberg-Selove: Nuclear Spectroscopy A and B, Academic Press New York, 1960
3) H. Morinaga, T. Yamazaki: In-Beam Gamma-ray Spectroscopy, North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1976
4) Vladimír Hnatowicz: Handbook of Nuclear Data for Neutron Activation Analysis (vol. 1 – Evaluation of Gamma-ray Spectra), Nuclear Information Centre, Praha, 1986
5) K. Debertin, R.G. Helmer: Gamma- and X-Ray Spectrometry with Semiconductor Detectors, North-Holland, 1988
6) R.R. Roy, R.D. Reed: Interactions of Photons and Leptons with Matter, Academic Press, New York, London, 1968
7) Vsevolod V. Balashov: Interaction of Particles and Radiation with Matter, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 1997
8) Glenn F. Knoll: Radiation detection and measurement (third edition), John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1999
9) H. Ejiri, M.J. A de Voigt: Gamma-Ray and electron spectroscopy in nuclear physics, Clarendon Press Oxford, 1989
10) Leo: Techniques for Nuclear and Particle Physics Experiment, Springer-Verlag 1987
11) D. N. Poenaru, W. Greiner: Experimental Techniques in Nuclear Physics, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York, 1997
12) Dan Green: The Physics of Particle Detectors, Cambridge University Press, 2000