Interaction of Radiation with Matter

Docente: Silvia Leoni   Dipartimento di Fisica                  1°  piano LITA                                               Via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano                       Tel. 02 50317 293                           Silvia.Leoni@mi.infn.it

Course for Laurea Specialistica (42 h) Ricevimento (Ufficio Docente) Su appuntamento via e-mail

Text Books G.F. Knoll Radiation Detection and Measurements Wiley & Sons W.R. Leo Techniques for Nuclear and Particle Physics Experiments Springer-Verlag

Program After an introduction on the interaction mechanisms of charge particles, gamma rays and neutrons with matter, the general properties of radiation detectors are presented. Modern and future detection systems based on different kind of materials are discussed in connection with specific experiments at the frontiers of the nuclear physics research. In the last part of the course, techniques for production, acceleration and studies of unstable (exotic) beams are presented. Application of Nuclear Physics techniques to Hadron Therapy are also discussed.

Progetto "Più Donne nella Fisica"  (25 INFN Fellowships)  
per studentesse iscritte al corso di laurea magistrale in Fisica o in Scienze dell'Universo

presso Università italiana per l'a.a. 2024/2025
Scadenza Bando 31 gennaio 2025, link Bando

Stages of 3-6 months for training and preparation of Bachelor/Master Thesis

Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), Grenoble (France)

https://www.ill.eu/neutrons-for-society/science-at-ill/nuclear-and-particle-physics/

Special Initiative for Undergraduate Students (30 INFN Fellowships)  
"Rewriting Nuclear Physics textbooks - 30 Years with Radioactive Ion Beams"                          
                                               Pisa (Italy), July 2015, 2017 and 2019 (new edition upcoming)                                                                         
Poster, Program

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» Detailed Program
» Basic Principle of Radiation Detection:
Lecture 1 (charged particles)
Lecture 2 (gamma rays)
Lecture 3 (neutrons)
Lecture 4 (Basic Properties of Detectors)
Lecture 5 (Gas Detectors)
Lecture 6 (Scintillator Detectors)
Lecture 7 (Semiconductor Detectors)

» Modern Detector Arrays	» REFERENCES
1 - Detection of  gamma rays from nuclear decay:       Ge detectors versus Scintillators       [pdf]	HPGe Ortec Specification
2 - Modern arrays based on Ge detectors:       EUROBALL    [pdf]	EUROBALL: Euroball-report CLOVER: Clover-CAMBERRA Duchene-NIMA432-1999-90 Joshi-NIMA399-1997-51 Jones-NIMA362-1995-556 Lipoglavsek-NIMA557-2006-523 CLUSTER: Wilhelm-NIMA381-1996-462 Million-NIMA452-2000-422
3 - Future detection systems for gamma radiation:       AGATA    [pdf]	Recent Review: Simpson-Oxford-Encyclopedia-2024 Lee-RPP66-2003-1095 Bazzacco-NPA746-2004-248c Kroll-NIMA463-2001-227 Pullia-IEEE53-2006-2869 Atac-NIMA607-2009-554 Gadea-NIMA654-2011-88 Akkoyun-NIMA668-2012-26
4 - Scintillator Arrays for gamma detection:       a) Innerball       b) HECTOR       c) MEDEA       d) TAPS       [pdf1, pdf2]	HECTOR: Mattiuzzi-NPA612-1997-262 MEDEA: Migneco-NIMA314-1992-31 Santonocito-EPJA30-2006-183 TAPS: Gabler-NIMA346-1994-168 Novotny-IEEE38-1991-379 Messchendorp-PRL82-1999-2649 Kalantar-NPA631-1998-242c
5 - Charged Particle Arrays:       a) DIAMANT       b) ISIS       c) MiniOrange       d) CHIMERA    [pdf]	CsI: Alarja-NIMA242-1986-352 Benrachi-NMA281-1989-137 Ballistic-Deficit: Gal-NIMA366-1995-120 ZCO: Pausch-NIMA365-1995-176 PIN-diode: PIN-diode-fundamentals DIAMANT: Scheurer-Crete-1993 Si-BALL: Kuroyanagi-NIMA316-1992-289 ISIS: Farnea-NIMA400-1997-87 CHIMERA: Pagano-Napoli2004-219 LeNeidre-NIMA490-2002-251 Alderighi-NIMA489-2002-257 INDRA: Pouthas-NIMA357-1995-418 MULTICS: Iori-NIMA325-1993-458 MiniOrange(IceMOS): Aegenvoort-EPJA1-1998-359
6 - Heavy Ion Detectors:       a) Recoil Filter       b) Fission Fragment Detector    [pdf]	Recent Review on Fission: Leoni-RNC45-2022-461 RFD: Sphor-APPB26-1995-297 Meczynski-NIMA580-2007-1310 SAPhIR: saphir saphir_update99 Lucas-EPJA15-2002-315
7 - Neutron Arrays:      a) NWall      b) LAND     [pdf]	NWall: Skeppstedt-NIMA421-1999-531 DEMON: Tilquin-NIMA35-1995-446 LAND: Blaich-NIMA314-1992-136 Schmidt-PRL70-1993-1767 Boretzky-PRC68-2003-024317
8 - Magnetic Spectrometers:      a) PRISMA      b) RITU      c) SPEG    [pdf]	MCP: MCP-description Wiza-NIMA162-1979-587 Montagnoli-NIMA547-2005-455 Odland-NIMA378-1996-149 PRISMA: Stefanini-NPA701-2002-217c Fioretto-Napoli-2004 Gadea-Napoli-2004 Gadea-EPJA20-2004-193 Montanari-EPJA47-2011-4 VAMOS: Savajols-NPA654-1999-1027c Gass-Filled-mode: Paul-NIMA277-1989-418 RITU: Leino-NIMB99-1995-653 Page-NIMB204-2003-634 SPEG: Bianchi-NIMA276-1983-509 Savajols-HypInt132-2001-245 Sarazin-PRL84-2000-5062
9 - Production and Detection      of Radioactive Beams:      a) IN-FLIGHT      b) ISOL      c) Separators    [pdf]	In-Flight: Morrisey-Euroschool-2004 LISE: SaintLaurent-NIMB-26-1987-273 FRS: Geissel-NIMB70-1992-286 Munzenberg-NIMB70-1992-265

» ADDITIONAL MATERIAL 1 A - Radio Therapy and Hadron Therapy Lecture Notes of Dr. Battistoni (INFN) 1 B - Application to Hadron Therapy         Lecture Notes of Dr. A. Mairani (CNAO) Part 1, Part 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 - Production and Detection of       Radioactive (Exotic) Beams Lecture Notes A. Bracco (Villa Gualino 2007) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 -  Ionized Based Detectors Lecture Notes Prof. Manfredi

» USEFUL LINKS 1 - Workshop on Novel Scintillators Materials Milano 2009 2- Topical Workshop Advances in Nuclear Structure with arrays         including new scintillator detectors      Bormio 2012