2021/2022

2021/2022

DM270

FIS/04 (NUCLEAR AND SUBNUCLEAR PHYSICS)

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

Fisica biosanitaria

1°

1st semester (04/10/2021 - 19/01/2022)

6

60 lesson hours

Italian

WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST

PROTTI NICOLETTA (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, Si, CZT) and health/environmental 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 Attenuation 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.
- SiPM array characterization.
- Alpha spectrometry.
- Characterization of a solid state CZT detector and gamma spectrometry for BNCT.

The course is structured as classroom lessons and laboratory experiments. During the classroom lessons 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).
Glenn F. Knoll, Radiation detection and measurement (Wiley, 4th Edition, 2010).

Presentations (PDF).

Oral and pratical examination based on the performed experiments and the laboratory notebook (that must be handed in to the teacher before the exam). 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.