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Lecturer(s)
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Fuciman Marcel, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Content of practicals: 1. Gamma-Ray Detection with Scintillator Detectors 2. Counting Statistics and Error Prediction 3. Gamma-Ray Absorption in Matter 4. Compton Scattering 5. Half-Life Measurement 6. Signal Processing with Digital Signal Electronics 7. High-Resolution Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy with HPGe Detectors 8. Gamma-Ray Efficiency Calibration 9. Gamma-Ray Coincidence Counting Techniques 10. Positron Annihilation 11. Mathematical Efficiency Calibration 12. True Coincidence Summing
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Laboratory
- Preparation for classes
- 9 hours per semester
- Class attendance
- 27 hours per semester
- Preparation for credit
- 36 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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Student will familiarize with gamma ray detection techniques, with spectral energy calibration, efficiency calibration of detector, statistical analysis and basics of coincidence measurements. The course is designated primarily to students of Physics, MVT, Biophysics, Physics in Education, but it benefits also to all students that come to contact with radioactive materials.
The goal is to deliver highly productive training in the fundamentals of nuclear physics while providing the student with hands-on experience that is of vocational relevance. Student will learn to optimize spectra acquisition, background subtraction, identification of various spectral structures typically associated with gamma detection and eventually to eliminate parasitic phenomena using (anti-)coincidence techniques.
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Prerequisites
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Basic knowledge of ionizing radiation detection principles. It's suggested to pass the course Physics IV or equivalent with nuclear physics basics. Radiation safety training (the training is held every year before the beginning of the course, it is mandatory and students cannot participate in the course without the safety training)
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Development of laboratory protocols
For successful passing of the course the student has to perform eight experiments and elaborate eight protocols. The minimal requirements for the protocols are available on e-learning web pages.
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Recommended literature
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Laboratory manual: Nuclear Science Experiments with Digital Electronics, Canberra, ke stažení http://www.canberra.com/fr/produits/research/pdf/Nuclear-Science-Experiments_C40691.pdf Texty a návody k jednotlivým úlohám./ Guidelines and directions for experiments..
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Gilmore G. Practical Gamma Ray Spectrometry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2008.
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Knoll, G.F. Radiation Detection and Measurements. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010.
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Krane, K.S. Introductory Nuclear Physics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1988.
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