Electrical Counting: With Special Reference to Counting Alpha and Beta Particles
Cambridge University Press, 5/26/2016
EAN 9781316611760, ISBN10: 1316611760
Paperback, 154 pages, 21.6 x 14 x 1 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
Originally published in 1942, this book was written by the renowned physicist and nuclear scientist Wilfrid Bennett Lewis (1908–87). The text presents an account regarding the technique of electrical counting and its role as an essential aid for research in nuclear physics, reflecting the discoveries of Lewis and his contemporaries at the Cavendish Laboratory. References are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the writings of Lewis, nuclear physics and the history of science.
Preface
1. Ionization by single particles
2. Counting ionization chambers
3. Limitations of amplifiers
4. Design of amplifiers
5. Oscillograph recording
6. Feedback and stabilizers
7. Mixing circuits, triggered circuits and discriminators
8. Recording counters
9. Geiger–Müller tube counters
10. Statistics of random distributions
11. Coincidence counting
12. Energy determinations from range measurements
Appendix
References.