Reseña del libro "noble gas detectors"
the technology of noble fluid detectors has grown rapidly during the last few years. the subject has attracted wide attention from researchers and detector technologists at many universities and national laboratories in recent years. valuable progress in the development of this technology has been achieved, mostly due to the discovery of effective methods of purification, the introduction of low-noise electronics, and the development of new vuv sensitive photosensors such as avalanche photodiodes and new compact photomultiplier tubes capable of working at low temperature and high pressure. in recent years, the u.s. government via agencies such as dod, doe, nasa, nsf, nih has intensively supported r&d on high-pressure xenon (hpxe) gamma spectrometers for the monitoring and identification of nuclear materials, liquid xenon ionization chambers for gamma ray astronomy and detection of cold dark matter, gamma ray imaging cameras, etc. information about this technology will be very valuable for national security and defense applications.this book will review the physical properties of noble fluids, operational principles of detectors based on these media, and the best technical solutions to the design of these detectors. essential attention will be given to the detector technology: purification methods and monitoring of purity, information readout methods, electronics, detection of hard ultra-violet light emission, selection of materials, cryogenics etc. the book is mostly addressed to physicists and graduate students involved in the preparation of fundamental next generation experiments, nuclear engineers developing instrumentation for national nuclear security and for monitoring nuclear materials.
