ABSTRACT

As useful to students and nuclear professionals as its popular predecessors, this fifth edition provides the most up-to-date and accessible introduction to radiation detector materials, systems, and applications. There have been many advances in the field of radiation detection, most notably in practical applications. Incorporating these important developments, Measurement and Detection of Radiation, Fifth Edition provides the most up-to-date and accessible introduction to radiation detector materials, systems, and applications. It also includes more problems and updated references and bibliographies, and step-by-step derivations and numerous examples illustrate key concepts.

New to the Fifth Edition:

• Expanded chapters on semiconductor detectors, data analysis methods, health physics fundamentals, and nuclear forensics.
• Updated references and bibliographies.
• New and expanded problems.

chapter 1|14 pages

Introduction to Radiation Measurements

chapter 2|57 pages

Uncertainties of Radiation Counting

chapter 3|46 pages

Review of Atomic and Nuclear Physics

chapter 5|32 pages

Gas-Filled Detectors

chapter 6|24 pages

Scintillation Detectors

chapter 7|28 pages

Semiconductor Detectors

chapter 8|25 pages

Relative and Absolute Measurements

chapter 9|19 pages

Introduction to Spectroscopy

chapter 10|30 pages

Electronics for Radiation Counting

chapter 11|29 pages

Data Analysis Methods

chapter 12|41 pages

Photon (γ-Ray and X-Ray) Spectroscopy

chapter 13|25 pages

Charged-Particle Spectroscopy

chapter 14|49 pages

Neutron Detection and Spectroscopy

chapter 15|19 pages

Activation Analysis and Related Techniques

chapter 16|48 pages

Health Physics Fundamentals

chapter 17|12 pages

Nuclear Forensics

chapter 18|10 pages

Nuclear Medicine Instrumentation