Nuclear Electronics

1. Introduction
2. Radiation Detectors and Related Circuits
2.1. Ionization Chamber
2.1.1. Energy Required for the Generation of One Charge Carrier Pair
2.1.2. Mobility of the Charge Carriers
2.1.3. The Pulse Shape
2.1.4. Preamplifier Circuits
2.2. Proportional Counters
2.2.1. Detection Mechanism and Pulse Shape in the Proportional Counter
2.2.2. Statistics of the Multiplication Process
2.2.3. Preamplifier Circuits
2.3. Geiger-Müller-Counters
2.3.1. Detection Mechanism and Pulse Shape in the GM Counter
2.3.2. Quenching Circuits
2.4. Semiconductor Detectors
2.4.1. Characteristic Properties of Semiconductor Detectors
2.4.2. Energy Required to Form a Hole-Electron Pair
2.4.3. The Pulse Shape in the pn and pin Detectors
2.4.4. Preamplifiers and Related Circuits
2.5. Scintillation and ?erenkov Counters
2.5.1. Principle of a Scintillation Counter
2.5.2. The Pulse Shape
2.5.3. Photomultiplier Statistics and the Pulse Height
2.5.4. Thermal Noise
2.5.5. Signal Circuits Used in Scintillation Counters
2.5.6. Auxiliary Circuits
2.5.7. Scintillation Counter Stabilizer Circuits
2.5.8. ?erenkov Counter
3. Analog Circuits
3.1. Linear Pulse Amplifiers
3.1.1. General Considerations, Linearity
3.1.2. The Transient Response of an Amplifier
3.1.3. Pulse Shaping
3.1.4. Sum Effects
3.1.5. Overload Recovery Ill
3.1.6. Practical Design Criteria
3.1.7. Amplifiers with Variable Gain
3.2. Arithmetic Operations on Analog Signals
3.2.1. Operational Amplifiers
3.2.2. Arithmetic Operations on Pulse Amplitudes
3.2.3. Practical Circuits
3.3. Window Amplifiers
3.4. Linear Gates
3.5. Pulse Stretchers
3.6. Fast Pulse Amplifiers
4. Analog-to-Digital Converters
4.1. Pulse Height Discriminators
4.1.1. The Principle of a Multivibrator
4.1.2. Integral Discriminators
4.1.3. Differential Discriminators
4.1.4. Multiple Arrays of Differential Discriminators
4.1.5. Conservation of the Time Information in a Discriminator
4.1.6. Fast Tunnel Diode