Gaseous detectors - part II

15 Outubro 2019, 14:00 Valentina Lozza

Proportional counters

- Formation of avalanche in gases
- Townsend coefficient and gain
- Plain vs cylindrical gaseous detectors: advantages and disadvantages
- Signal formation
- Choice of gas and detector aging
- Geiger counters
- Detector for position resolution: MWPCs, GEM, 
- Drift Chambers
- TPC