Published Literature on Particle Detectors and Ionization

Basics:

• Energy Loss and Ionization Processes
  • L. G. Christophorou, Atomic and Molecular Radiation Physics (London: Wiley, 1971).
    Call Number: QC173 C47

  • W. W. M. Allison and Cobb in Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 30 (1980) 253.
    Call Number: QC770 A55

  • W. W. M. Allison and P. R. S. Wright, The Physics of Charged Particle Identification: dE/dx, Cerenkov, and Transition Radiation in Experimental Techniques in High Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics 2nd ed. T. Ferbel ed., (Singapore: World Scientific, 1991).
    Call Number: QC786.2 E96

• Multi-Wire Proportional Chambers
  • W. Blum and L. Rolandi Particle Detection with Drift Chambers, (New York: Springer-Verlag, 1994).
    Call Number: QC787.D74B58

  • B. B. Rossi and H. H. Staub, Ionization Chambers and Counters Experimental Techniques, (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1949).
    Call Number: QC770 N3

  • F. Sauli, Principles of Operation of Multiwire Proportional and Drift Chambers, CERN Report 77-09 (1977).

  • H. G. Fischer Gaseous Detectors, CERN Lectures 9-13 December, 1996.

• Avalanche Formation
  • H. Raether Electron Avalanches and Breakdown in Gases, (1964).
    Call Number: QC711.R34 1964

Papers in Journals

• Pad Response Functions
  • D. L. Fancher and A. C. Schaffer, IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci 26(1979) 150.
  • E. Gatti NIM 163 (1979) 83.
  • I. Endo, NIM 188 (1981) 51.
  • Mathieson et al., NIM 227 (1984) 267.
  • Mathieson et al., NIM 227 (1984) 277.
  • Mathieson et al., NIM 234 (1985) 505.

• Landau Distribution
  • Classical
    • L. Landau, J. Phys. USSR 8 (1944) 201; ed. D. Ter Haar, Collected Papers of L. D. Landau (Oxford: Permagon Press, 1965).
    • P.V Vavilov, Sov. Phys. JETP 5 (1957) 749.

  • Approximations
    • J. E. Moyal, Phil. Mag. 46 (1955) 263.
    • V. A. Chechin and V. C. Ermilova, NIM 136 (1976) 551.
    • V. C. Ermilova et al., NIM 145 (1977) 555.
    • T. Tabata and R. Ito, NIM 158 (1979) 521.
    • K. S. Kölbig and B. Schorr, Comp. Phys. Comm. 32 (1984) 121.

• Cluster Charge
  • H. Fischle et al., NIM A301 (1991) 202.

• Beta-Bloch Equation
  • Classical
    • E. Fermi, Phys. Rev. 57 (1940) 485.
    • U. Fano, Ann. Rev. Nucl. Sci. 13 (1963) 1.
  • Parameterizations
    • R. M. Sternheimer and R. F. Peierls, Phys. Rev B3 (1971) 3681.
    • R. M. Sternheimer and R. F. Peierls, Atomic and Nuclear Data Tables, 30 (1984) 261.
    • ** A. H. Walenta et al., NIM 161 (1979) 45.
  • Saturation
    • A. Crispin and G. N. Fowler, Rev. Mod. Phys. 42 (1979) 290.

• Simulation
  • W. A. Oran, NIM 97 (1971) 151.
  • F. Lapique and F. Piuz, NIM 196 (1982) 361.

• Charge Transport
  • M. Huk, P. Igo-Kemenes, and A. Wagner, NIM A267 (1987) 107.

• Truncated Mean
  • Historical
    • G. Igo and R. M. Eisberg, Rev. Sci. Instr. 25 (1954) 450.
  • Studies
    • D. Jeanne et al., NIM 111 (1973) 287.
    • P. S. Auchincloss et al., NIM A343 (1994) 463.
  • Log mean
    • A. I. Alikhanov et al., Proc. CERN Symposium on High Energy Accelerators and High Energy Accelerators, 2 (1956) 87. (CERN 56-25).

• Drift Chamber Gases
  • T. Alber et al., NIM A349(1994) 56.
  • I. Lehraus et al., IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci 30 (1983) 50.
  • for an unpublished summary see:
    Ionization Properties of Some Common Drift Chamber Gases YRHIG-98-8.

• Detectors
  • ALEPH W. B. Atwood et al., NIM A306 (1991) 446.