EU Nuclear Instrumentation 1 - 4PUGINU1

Goal(s)

• Radiation Matter Interactions (22h)
  This lecture introduces the basic concepts of radiation-matter interactions : different modes of interaction of charged particules with matter (electron, positron, alpha, proton, ions) as well as the interactions of neutral radiations (photons and neutrons) with matter. The bases of radio-protection are also presented, with a description of particle interactions in biological matter and the standard radioprotection units.

• Nuclear Detectors (22h)
  The purpose of this set of lectures is to provide the students with a description of the main detection principles for charged (electron, proton, alpha) and neutral (photon and neutrons) particles. The course presents the most common devices used in nuclear and particle physics with an emphasis on gazeous detectors, semi-conductor devices and scintillators detectors.

Content(s)

• Radiation Matter Interactions (16h lecture + 6h exercices)
  I. Reminder: Basic concepts - Units
  I.1 Components of Matter and the 4 interactions
  I.2 Units and definition
  I.3 Atomic nucleus
  I.4 Cross-sections and reactions
  I.5 Application: the Rutherford experiment
  I.6 Coulomb Elastic interactions

II. Charged Particle interacting with matter
II.1 Introduction : the different modes of interactions of electron/ion with matter
II.2 Stopping power of heavy charged particules
II.3 Stopping power of electron and positron
II.4 Cerenkov, Transition radiations

IV. Photon Interacting with matter
IV.1 Introduction : the different modes of interactions of photon with matter
IV.2 Compton effect
IV.3 Photoelectric effect
IV.4 Paire creation

V. Neutron interacting with matter

VI. Introduction to radio-protection

• Nuclear Detectors (22h)
  I. Introduction
  Reminder : interaction particle-matter
  General operating of a detector
  Statistics and error propagation

II. General characteristics of a detector
Sensitivity & linearity
Efficiency and resolution power, dead time

III. Gazeous detectors
Ionisation, excitation and recombination electron and ion transport
Operating modes of gazeous detectors
Signal shaping and Acquisition

IV. Semi-conductor devices
Reminder: basics of semi-conductors
Characterisitics of Germanium and Silicium devices
Use for photon detection

V. Scintillator devices
General properties and classification
Organic scintillators
Inorganic scintillators
gazaeous scintillators
Readout and Photomultipliers

• Radiation Matter Interactions
  Nuclear Physics 1

• Nuclear Detectors
  Radiation Matter Interactions