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Competent experts provide a summary of the enormous progress achieved in the development of new detection methods of charged and neutral particles, and photons. These achievements were initiated by the advent of new particle colliders, e.g. the LHC at CERN but also by non-accelerator experiments. The present 2nd part of the handbook is devoted to the integration of detectors in large experiments, detectors for special applications, as well as the application of detectors in other fields like e.g. medicine, biology, applied physics and industry.

Particle acceleration. --- Engineering design. --- Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics. --- Engineering Design. --- Applied and Technical Physics.

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A broad class of accelerators rests on the induction principle whereby the accelerating electrical fields are generated by time-varying magnetic fluxes. Particularly suitable for the transport of bright and high-intensity beams of electrons, protons or heavy ions in any geometry (linear or circular) the research and development of induction accelerators is a thriving subfield of accelerator physics. This text is the first comprehensive account of both the fundamentals and the state of the art about the modern conceptual design and implementation of such devices. Accordingly, the first part of the book is devoted to the essential features of and key technologies used for induction accelerators at a level suitable for postgraduate students and newcomers to the field. Subsequent chapters deal with more specialized and advanced topics.

Particle acceleration. --- Particle acceleration --- Physics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Nuclear Physics --- Particles (Nuclear physics) --- Acceleration --- Physics. --- Physical measurements. --- Measurement. --- Electrical engineering. --- Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics. --- Measurement Science and Instrumentation. --- Electrical Engineering. --- Acceleration (Mechanics) --- Nuclear physics --- Computer engineering. --- Computers --- Design and construction --- Measurement   . --- Electric engineering --- Engineering --- Measuring --- Mensuration --- Mathematics --- Technology --- Metrology --- Physical measurements --- Measurements, Physical --- Mathematical physics --- Measurement

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This exhaustive survey is the result of a four year effort by many leading researchers in the field to produce both a readable introduction and a yardstick for the many upcoming experiments using heavy ion collisions to examine the properties of nuclear matter. The books falls naturally into five large parts, first examining the bulk properties of strongly interacting matter, including its equation of state and phase structure. Part II discusses elementary hadronic excitations of nuclear matter, Part III addresses the concepts and models regarding the space-time dynamics of nuclear collision experiments, Part IV collects the observables from past and current high-energy heavy-ion facilities in the context of the theoretical predictions specific to compressed baryonic matter. Part V finally gives a brief description of the experimental concepts. The book explicitly addresses everyone working or planning to enter the field of high-energy nuclear physics.

Baryons --- Nuclear physics --- Particle acceleration --- Nuclear matter --- Physics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Electricity & Magnetism --- Nuclear Physics --- Baryons. --- Physics. --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Astrophysics. --- Nuclear physics. --- Heavy ions. --- Hadrons. --- Particle acceleration. --- Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons. --- Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics. --- Astrophysics and Astroparticles. --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Fermions --- Hadrons --- Heavy particles (Nuclear physics) --- Atomic nuclei --- Atoms, Nuclei of --- Nucleus of the atom --- Particles (Nuclear physics) --- Acceleration (Mechanics) --- Acceleration --- Astronomical physics --- Astronomy --- Cosmic physics --- Ions

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Laser driven proton beams are still in their infancy but already have some outstanding attributes compared to those from conventional accelerators. One such attribute is the typically low beam emittance. This allows excellent resolution in imaging applications like proton radiography. In the thesis by Thomas Sokollik a novel imaging technique - the proton streak camera - was developed and first used to measure both the spatial and temporal evolution of ultra-strong electrical fields in laser-driven plasmas. Such investigations are of paramount importance for the understanding of laser-plasma interactions and, thus, for optimization of laser driven particle acceleration. In particular, the present work investigated micrometer-sized spherical targets after laser irradiation. The confined geometry of plasmas and fields was found to influence the kinetic energy and spatial distribution of accelerated ions. This could be shown both in experimental radiography images and and in numerical simulations, one of which was selected for the cover page of Physical Review Letters.

Laser fusion. --- Plasma dynamics. --- Physics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Electricity & Magnetism --- Nuclear Physics --- Laser plasmas. --- Proton beams. --- Laser-produced plasmas --- Plasmas, Laser --- Plasmas, Laser-produced --- Physics. --- Particle acceleration. --- Atoms. --- Matter. --- Plasma (Ionized gases). --- Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics. --- Plasma Physics. --- Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction. --- Laser beams --- Plasma (Ionized gases) --- Particle beams --- Particles (Nuclear physics) --- Acceleration (Mechanics) --- Nuclear physics --- Acceleration --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Chemistry, Physical and theoretical --- Matter --- Stereochemistry --- Gaseous discharge --- Gaseous plasma --- Magnetoplasma --- Ionized gases --- Constitution

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A Search for Muon Neutrino to Electron Neutrino Oscillations in the MINOS Experiment is a tour de force that summarizes, clearly and in some depth, much of Ochoa’s vast body of work which has had a major impact on MINOS. The centerpiece of the thesis is the search for muon neutrino to electron neutrino oscillations, which would indicate a non-zero mixing angle between the first and third neutrino generations (θ13), currently the “holy grail” of neutrino physics.  The optimal extraction of the electron neutrino oscillation signal is based on the novel “library event matching” (LEM) method which Ochoa developed and implemented together with colleagues at Caltech and at Cambridge, which improves MINOS’ reach for establishing an oscillation signal over any other method. LEM will now be the basis for MINOS’ final results, and will likely keep MINOS at the forefront of this field until it completes its data taking in 2011. Ochoa and his colleagues also developed the successful plan to run MINOS with a beam tuned for antineutrinos, to make a sensitive test of CPT symmetry by comparing the inter-generational mass splitting for neutrinos and antineutrinos. Ochoa’s in-depth, creative approach to the solution of a variety of complex experimental problems is an outstanding example for graduate students and longtime practitioners of experimental physics alike. Some of the most exciting results in this field to emerge in the near future may find their foundations in this thesis, for which Ochoa was awarded the National Prize for Youth of Mexico in 2009. This Doctoral Thesis has been accepted by California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA.

Cosmic rays -- Congresses. --- Neutrinos -- Congresses. --- Neutrino interactions --- Neutrinos --- Physics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Nuclear Physics --- Atomic Physics --- Neutrinos. --- Oscillations. --- Neutret --- Physics. --- Elementary particles (Physics). --- Quantum field theory. --- Particle acceleration. --- Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory. --- Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics. --- Numerical and Computational Physics. --- Cycles --- Fluctuations (Physics) --- Vibration --- Leptons (Nuclear physics) --- Neutrons --- Quantum theory. --- Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation. --- Particles (Nuclear physics) --- Acceleration (Mechanics) --- Nuclear physics --- Quantum dynamics --- Quantum mechanics --- Quantum physics --- Mechanics --- Thermodynamics --- Acceleration --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Relativistic quantum field theory --- Field theory (Physics) --- Quantum theory --- Relativity (Physics) --- Elementary particles (Physics) --- High energy physics --- Nuclear particles --- Nucleons --- Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search