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Semiconductor Detectors in Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics

Class at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
NJSF101

Syllabus

Basic principles Semiconductor structures: p-n junction Interaction of radiation in semiconductors, detection characteristics Spectroscopical detectors (charged particles, gamma) Position sensitive detectors (strips, pixels, drift, CCD) Electronics for semiconductor detectors Radiation hardness Applications: medical imaging, image reconstruction Data analysis (spectra evaluation, peak search, track reconstruction), practical examples

Annotation

Semiconductors, semiconducting structures, interaction of radiation in semiconductors, spectroscopic detectors, position sensitive detectors (strip, pixel, ...). Electronics for semiconductor detectors, radiation hardness.

Applications in medicine and other fields. Data manipulation (analysis of spectra, search for peaks, tracking of particles).