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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Particle physics | |
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| Particles and interactions | |
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| Relativistic kinematics | |
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| Summary of particle properties | |
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| Scattering | |
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| Particle physics experiments | |
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| Data analysis | |
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| Electromagnetic interactions | |
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| Energy loss in matter | |
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| Quantum treatment of the energy loss | |
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| Fluctuations in energy loss | |
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| Energy loss of electrons and positrons | |
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| Interactions of photons | |
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| Elastic scattering | |
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| Multiple scattering | |
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| Other electromagnetic effects | |
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| Nuclear interactions | |
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| Strong interactions | |
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| Weak interactions | |
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| Particle beams | |
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| Particle accelerators | |
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| Secondary beams | |
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| Beam transport | |
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| Flux monitors | |
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| Other particle sources | |
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| Radiation protection | |
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| Targets | |
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| Standard targets | |
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| Special purpose targets | |
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| Fast electronics | |
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| Fast pulse instrumentation | |
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| Discriminators | |
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| Coincidence units | |
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| CAMAC standard | |
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| Other fast pulse devices | |
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| Signal cables | |
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| Scintillation counters | |
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| The scintillation process | |
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| Light collection | |
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| Photomultiplier tubes | |
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| Performance | |
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| Timing applications | |
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| Cerenkov counters | |
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| The Cerenkov effect | |
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| Photon yield | |
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| Gas radiators | |
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| Threshold counters | |
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| Differential counters | |
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| Total absorption counters | |
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| Proportional chambers | |
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| Elements of a proportional chamber | |
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| Fundamental processes in gases | |
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| Proportional chamber gases | |
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| Multiwire proportional chambers | |
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| Readout electronics | |
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| Drift chambers | |
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| Properties of drift chamber gases | |
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| Construction | |
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| Readout electronics | |
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| Performance | |
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| Particle identification | |
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| Sampling calorimeters | |
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| Electromagnetic showers | |
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| Electromagnetic shower detectors | |
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| Hadronic shower detectors | |
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| Neutral particle detectors | |
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| Specialized detectors | |
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| Bubble chambers | |
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| Emulsions | |
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| Spark chambers | |
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| Streamer chambers | |
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| Transition radiation detectors | |
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| Short summary of some other detectors | |
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| Triggers | |
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| General considerations | |
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| Identified particle triggers | |
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| Deposited energy triggers | |
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| Higher level triggering | |
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| Detector systems | |
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| Magnetic spectrometers | |
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| Design considerations | |
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| Fixed target spectrometers | |
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| Colliding beam spectrometers | |
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| Nucleon decay spectrometers | |
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| Data acquisition | |
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| Some fundamental measurements | |
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| Particle properties | |
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| Total cross section | |
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| Elastic scattering | |
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| Polarization experiments | |
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| New particle searches | |
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| Physical constants | |
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| Periodic table of the elements | |
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| Probability and statistics | |
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| Cross sections and probability | |
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| Two-body scattering in the LAB frame | |
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| Motion of ions in a combined electric and magnetic field | |
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| Properties of structural materials | |
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| Author index | |
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| Subject index | |