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Internet archive contributor internet archive language. After more than two years of work, the dubnaled collaboration shipped its masterpiece to become part of the 12,500ton cms particle detector at cern. Fundamentals of detector physics and measurements lab i. Detectors can measure the particle energy and other attributes such as momentum. The physics of particle detectors request pdf researchgate. Lecture physics of detectors for particles and radiation. The 12th volume of the cambridge monograph series on particle physics, nuclear physics and cosmology again concerns particle detectors. The physics of particle detectors dan green cam bridge u. How physics defines the lhc environment and detectors. Typical resolutions and deadtimes of common detectors. More detailed discussions of detectors and their underlying physics can be found in books by ferbel 1, grupen 2, kleinknecht 3, knoll 4, and green 5.
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