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

Chapter 3Experimental tools

Chapter 3
Experimental tools