Chapter 3
Experimental tools
In this chapter we shall concentrate on the experimental tools used in nuclear and particle physics. Mainly the present ones, but it is hard to avoid discussing some of the history.
3.1
Accelerators
3.1.1 Resolving power
3.1.2 Types
3.1.3 DC fields
3.2 Targets
3.3 The main experimental facilities
3.3.1 SLAC (B factory, Babar)
3.3.2 Fermilab (D0 and CDF)
3.3.3 CERN (LEP and LHC)
3.3.4 Brookhaven (RHIC)
3.3.5 Cornell (CESR)
3.3.6 DESY (Hera and Petra)
3.3.7 KEK (tristan)
3.3.8 IHEP
3.4 Detectors
3.4.1 Scintillation counters
3.4.2 Proportional/Drift Chamber
3.4.3 Semiconductor detectors
3.4.4 Spectrometer
3.4.5 Čerenkov Counters
3.4.6 Transition radiation
3.4.7 Calorimeters
3.1.1 Resolving power
3.1.2 Types
3.1.3 DC fields
3.2 Targets
3.3 The main experimental facilities
3.3.1 SLAC (B factory, Babar)
3.3.2 Fermilab (D0 and CDF)
3.3.3 CERN (LEP and LHC)
3.3.4 Brookhaven (RHIC)
3.3.5 Cornell (CESR)
3.3.6 DESY (Hera and Petra)
3.3.7 KEK (tristan)
3.3.8 IHEP
3.4 Detectors
3.4.1 Scintillation counters
3.4.2 Proportional/Drift Chamber
3.4.3 Semiconductor detectors
3.4.4 Spectrometer
3.4.5 Čerenkov Counters
3.4.6 Transition radiation
3.4.7 Calorimeters
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