Detectors and signal processing for high-energy physics
Abstract
Basic principles of the particle detection and signal processing for high energy physics experiments are presented. It is shown that the optimum performance of a properly designed detector system is not limited by incidental imperfections, but solely by more fundamental limitations imposed by the quantum nature and statistical behavior of matter. The noise sources connected with the detection filtering and optimal detector/amplifying device matching are introduced. Signal processing for a liquid argon calorimeter is analyzed in some detail. The position detection in gas counters is studied. Resolution in drift chambers for the drift coordinate measurement as well as the second coordinate measurement is discussed.
- Publication:
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Presented at the 3rd Course of Intern. School of Phys
- Pub Date:
- 1981
- Bibcode:
- 1981phys.conf.....R
- Keywords:
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- Radiation Counters;
- Signal Processing;
- Amplifiers;
- Calorimeters;
- Charged Particles;
- Gas Detectors;
- Matched Filters;
- Noise;
- Position (Location);
- Nuclear and High-Energy Physics