Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1993. – 344 pp. (Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, volume 124)
The book deals with ionization damping of fast charged particles in matter and with experimental methods of ionization measurements based on this phenomenon, which are applied in high energy physics for the identification and separation of charged particles according to their ionizing powers.Contents.
Introduction.
References.
lonization Effects in a Polarizable Medium.
Physical Processes in Gas lonization Detectors.
lonization Measurements in Proportional Detectors.
Spatial Resolution and Electronics of Multilayer Proportional Detectors.
lonization Measurements in Gas Track Detectors.
Alternative Methods of lonization Measurement.
References.
List of Names and Abbreviations.
List of Symbols.
Subject Index.
