2017/2018

2017/2018

DM270

FIS/04 (NUCLEAR AND SUBNUCLEAR PHYSICS)

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

Fisica biosanitaria

1°

2nd semester (01/03/2018 - 15/06/2018)

6

60 lesson hours

Italian or English upon request (English friendly course - http://fisica.unipv.it/dida/English-friendly-programme.pdf)

ORAL TEST

DE BARI ANTONIO (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Basic notions of interaction of radiation with matter, electronics, statistics and data analysis.

Learning the practical use of scintillation detectors, solid-state detectors (HPGe) and health physics instrumentation.

Suggested laboratory experiments:
- NaI(Tl) Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy System Assembly.
- NaI(Tl) Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy System Energy Calibration.
- Gamma-Ray Spectrum Analysis.
- Unknown Gamma Source Identification.
- Energy Resolution.v - Activity of a Gamma Emitter.
- Mass Absorption Coefficient Measurements for Gamma-Rays in Pb and Al.
- Surface Contamination Evaluation.
- HPGe Gamma-ray Spectroscopy System Calibration.
- Neutron Activation of a Few Samples Followed by Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy Analysis.
- Radon Gas Concentration Measurements.

The course is structured as presentations on screen and laboratory experiments. During the presentations some underlaying theory is refreshed and it is introduced the basic technology of the instruments to be used in laboratory.

William R. Leo, Techniques for Nuclear and Particle Physics Experiments: A How-To Approach (Springer-Verlag, 2nd revised edition, 1994).

PDF format presentations.

Oral and pratical examination based on the followed experiments and the laboratory notebook. Each student keeps and updates her/his own laboratory notebook.

The following web page:
http://www2.pv.infn.it/~debari/links.html
has html hyperlinks to databases and free software that may be used during the laboratory experiments.