BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR PARTICLE DETECTORS =================================== (preliminary and incomplete) 1. GENERAL 1.1 BOOKS Yuan and Wu (eds.) Methods of experimental Physics, Acad.Press, 1961. (rather complete but old) G. Segré (ed.) Experimental Nuclear Physics, John Wiley, New York, 1953. B. Rossi: High energy particles, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs,N.J. 1961. (especially about interaction with matter, e.m. showers, knockons,..) J.B.A. England, Techniques in nuclear structure physics, Halsted Press/ J. Wiley&Sons, New York 1974. (mainly for nucl.phys.) G.G. Eichholz and J.W. Poston: Principles of nuclear radiation detection, Ann Arbor Science Publ., Ann Arbor, 1979. (mainly for nucl.ph., very nice introduction to gas-filled detectors, a lot about scintillators and semiconductors, some about track detectors). W.H. Tait, Radiation detection, Butterworths, London 1980. K.Kleinknecht: Detectors for particle radiation, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1986. W.R.Leo: Techniques for Nuclear and Particle Physics Experiments, Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1987, 2nd edition 1994 (very good, practical information) R.C.Fernow: Introduction to experimental high energy physics, 1986. G.F. Knoll: Radiation Detection and Measurement, J. Wiley&Sons, New York 1989 (excellent reference for wide range of detectors, particularly for low energy / nuclear physics) 1.2 Reviews and lectures J.B.A. England: Detection of ionizing particles, Journal of Physics E: Scientific Instr. 9 (1976) 233-251. D.J. Miller: A consumer's guide to particle detectors, lectures at SRC summer school for theoretical physicists, Southampton 1976, Univ.College-London preprint. Articles by G. Charpak, W.J. Willis, J.Sandweiss, J.N. Marx and D.R.Nygren in Physics Today, Oct. 1978. C.W. Fabjan and H.G. Fischer: Particle detectors, Reports on progress in Physics 43 (1980) 1003. K. Kleinknecht: Particle detectors, lectures at St.Croix summer school, in: Techniques and concepts of high energy physics (T.Ferbel, ed.) Plenum Press, 1981, pp 459-509. "Physics of particle detectors", lectures by D.M. Ritson, J.A. Jaros, J.N. Marx, H.A. Gordon, R.S. Gilmore, W.B. Atwood at the 1980 SLAC summer institute on particle physics, SLAC Report #239, Jan.1981 pp 177-308. Proceedings of Int.Conf. on instrumentation for colliding beam physics, SLAC 1982, SLAC report#250, June 1982. (a collection of articles rather than review, some of them readable). A.H. Walenta: Physics and technology of charged particle detectors, lectures at 1983 SLAC summer institute on particle physics, SLAC Report #267, Jan. 1984 pp 275-334. G. Charpak and F. Sauli: High resolution particle detectors, Ann.Rev.Nucl.Part.Sc. 34 (1984) 284-349. F. Sauli: New detectors for high-intensity beams, talk at meeting on future of medium and high energy physics in Switzer- land, Les Rasses, May 1985, preprint CERN-EP/85-134. G. Charpak: Trends in particle detectors, talk at the Int. Symposium on lepton and photon interactions at high energies, Kyoto, August 1985, preprint CERN-EP/85-127. 2. WIRE CHAMBERS 2.1 BOOKS P. Rice-Evans: Spark, streamer, proportional and drift chambers, Richelieu Press, London 1974. W. Blum, L. Rolandi: Particle detection with driftchambers, Springer Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg 1993 2.2 Reviews and lectures G. Charpak: Evolution of the automatic spark chambers, Ann.Rev.Nucl.Sc. 20 (1970) 195-254. (about filmless spark chambers and multiwire proportional chambers). F. Sauli: Principles of operation of multiwire proportional and drift chambers, yellow report CERN 77-09 (lectures in CERN academic training program). (the "classical" didactic treatment of MWPC's). I. Veress and A. Montvai: Survey on Multiwire proportional chambers, Nucl.Instr.Meth. 156 (1978) 73-80. F. Sauli: Limiting accuracies in multiwire proportional and drift chambers, Nucl.Instr.Meth. 156 (1978) 147-157. J. Heintze: Drift chambers and recent developments, Nucl.Instr.Meth. 156 (1978) 227-244. A. Breskin, G. Charpak et al.: The multistep avalanche chamber: a new family of fast, high-rate particle detectors, Nucl.Instr.Meth. 161 (1979) 19-34. G. Charpak and F. Sauli: Multiwire proportional chambers and drift chambers, Nucl.Instr.Meth. 162 (1979) 405-428. G. Charpak et al.: Detection of far-ultraviolet photons with the multistep avalanche chamber... Nucl.Instr.Meth. 164 (1979) 419-433 (introd. to gas detectors, application to RICH counters). A.H. Walenta, in SLAC Report #267, pp 275-334. F. Sauli: Possible improvements in the performance of gaseous detectors, invited talk at Int.Conf. on experimentation at LEP, Uppsala, June 1980, preprint CERN-EP/80-144, published in the proceedings. F. Sauli: Basic processes in time projection like detectors, invited talk at the TPC workshop, Vancouver, June 1983, preprint CERN-EP/83-103. 3. OTHER TRACK DEVICES 3.1 BOOKS C.F. Powell and P.G.S. Occhialini: Nuclear Physics in Photographs, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1947. O.C. Allkofer: Spark chambers, Thiemig-Verlag, Muenchen, 1969. P. Rice-Evans: Spark,streamer, proportional and drift chambers, Richelieu, London, 1974. R.P. Shutt: Bubble and spark chambers, Academic Press, New York, 1967 W.H. Barkas: Nuclear research emulsions, Acad. Press, New York, 1963,1973. R.L. Fleischer, P.B. Price and R.M. Walker: Nuclear Tracks in solids, Univ. of Calif. Press, Berkeley, 1975. 3.1 Reviews and lectures 4. CHERENKOV COUNTERS AND TRANSITION RADIATION DETECTORS 4.1 BOOKS J.V. Jelley: Cerenkov radiation and its applications, Pergamon Press. London, 1958. V.P. Zrelov: Cerenkov radiation in high energy physics, Atomizdat, Moscow 1968 (English transl: Israel prog. of science translations, 1970). 4.2 REVIEWS AND LECTURES G.W. Hutchinson: Cherenkov detectors, Progr.Nucl.Phys. 8(1960) 197-236. J. Litt and R. Meunier: Cerenkov counter technique in high energy physics, Ann.Rev.Nucl.Sc. 23(1973)1-43. X. Artru, G.B. Yodh and G. Mennessier: Practical Theory of the multi- layered transition radiation detector, Phys.Rev. D12(1975)1289-1306. A. Peisert: Cherenkov ring imaging for particle identification.., thesis at Univ.of Geneva, 1982; CERN-EP internal report 82-06. T. Ekelöf: The experimental method of ring-imaging Cherenkov (RICH) counters, lectures at 1984 SLAC summer institute on particle physics, Stanford, Aug. 1984, preprint CERN-EP/84-168. D.W.G.S. Leith: Recent progress in the development of Cherenkov ring imaging detectors, invited talk at APS meeting at Eugene, Oregon, August 1985, preprint SLAC-PUB-3829. 5. SCINTILLATION COUNTERS 5.1 BOOKS E. Schram: Organic scintillation detectors, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1963. J.B. Birks: The theory and practice of scintillation counting, Macmillan, New York, 1964. K. Siegbahn (ed): Alpha-beta-gamma ray spectrometry, North-Holland Publ., Amsterdam, 1965. F.H. Attix and W.C. Roesch: Radiation dosimetry, Acad.Press, New York, 1968: article by W.J. Ramm on scintillation detectors. E.D. Bransome (ed.): The current status of liquid scintillation counting, Grune&Stratton, New York, 1970. K.D. Neame and C.A. Homewood: Liquid scintillation counting, Hallstead Press, New York, 1974. 5.2 REVIEWS AND LECTURES Garlick: Scintillators, Prog.Nucl.Phys. 2(1952). F.D. Brooks: Organic scintillators, Prog.Nucl.Phys. 5(1956)