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CERN Courier October 2014 Bookshelf Innovative Applications and Developments of Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors By Tom Francke and Vladimir Peskov IGI Global Hardback: $215 E-book: $215 Research in nuclear physics is inconceivable without the Geiger counter. This gas-fi lled instrument allows both the presence and the energy of ionizing particles and radiation to be measured. It is now 100 years since Hans Geiger designed the arrangement of its electrodes, but this construction is still used in most current gaseous detectors. In this arrangement, the electrons produced by collision and ionization of the gas atoms are multiplied in the electric fi eld around a thin wire, and the resulting avalanche of electrons delivers an easily detectable signal. It is only recently that other electrode arrangements for gas counters have been proposed and tested. Besides offering improved properties such as higher counting rates, a certain number of prior conceptions of the electron amplifi cation process had to be revised. These new counters are called Portrait of Gunnar Källén: A Physics this subject, and took a 90° turn with the “micro-pattern gaseous detectors” because Shooting Star and Poet of Early Quantum writing of his book on elementary particles. the same lithographic technique is used Field Theory It is true that Källén failed, while being for their production as is employed in the By Cecilia Jarlskog (ed.) critical of Jacques Bros, Henri Epstein and semiconductor industry. Springer Vladimir Glaser because they were not using In their book, Francke and Peskov Hardback: £62.99 €74.89 invariants. However, Bros–Epstein–Glaser describe the complete historical E-book: £49.99 €59.49 succeeded and proved crossing symmetry, development of these counters and discuss This book is extremely interesting. Mainly allowing proof of the Froissart bound the properties and special features of a collection of testimonies, it helps in without dispersion relations, and providing a each type. Smaller detectors with a understanding the special personality starting point for the Pomeranchuk theorem. sensitive window of up to 30 × 30 cm2 can of Gunnar Källén – his kindness and Because the book is based on testimonies, be built using the lithographic technique aggressiveness. Cecilia Jarlskog is named there is a certain redundancy, in particular exclusively. These are mainly detectors as “editor”, but she is more than an editor in about the accident, but this is unavoidable. in a hermetically sealed housing fi lled having written an informative biography. Overall, Cecilia Jarlskog has done an excellent with high-pressure gas. Detectors of this Källén worked in the “Group of Theoretical job. The plane crash was a tragedy, and if he type are very stable for many years. For Studies” – one of three groups that were set had lived, Källén would certainly have made example, the detector of the two-axis up as part of the “provisional CERN” in 1952 further important contributions. (His two diffractometer D20 at the Institut – which was based in Copenhagen until it passengers – his wife Gonella and Matti von Laue–Langevin has been operating for was offi cially closed in 1957. He later became Dardel – survived the crash. Matti has told 14 years. Detectors with larger sized professor at Lund University, and tragically me that her husband Guy von Dardel and windows work at normal gas pressure and died in 1968 when his plane crashed while he Källén were planning a collaboration between with constant gas current. Their electrodes was fl ying it from Malmö to CERN. a theoretician and an experimentalist. The still have to be assembled precisely I was impressed by Steve Weinberg’s accident put an end to that.) by hand. admiration for Källén – he considers himself ● André Martin, CERN. This handbook should allow every a student of Källén, although he was Sam research scientist to choose and produce Treiman’s student – as well as by that of Engines of Discovery: A Century of Particle the best detector possible for a specifi c James Bjorken and Wolfgang Pauli, who Accelerators. Revised and Expanded application. Numerous pictures with wanted Källén as professor at ETH Zurich. I Edition descriptions and many diagrams assist in cannot comment on the fact that it was fi nally By Andrew Sessler and Edmund Wilson making a good choice, while the detailed Res Jost who was appointed, because I have World Scientifi c bibliography is particularly helpful. the highest esteem for him also. Hardback: £58 ● Anton Oed, who introduced the concept of the It is interesting that Pauli disapproved of Paperback: £32 micro-strip gas chamber in 1988 – at the Institut E-book: £24 Källén’s work on the n-point function. It was ▲ Laue–Langevin. only long after Pauli’s death that Källén quit Also available at the CERN bookshop 74 p75.indd 1 04/09/2014 10:00 CERNCOURIER www. V OLUME 5 4 N UMBER 8 O CTOBER 2 0 1 4 CERN Courier October 2014 Bookshelf Innovative Applications and Developments of Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors By Tom Francke and Vladimir Peskov IGI Global Hardback: $215 E-book: $215 Research in nuclear physics is inconceivable without the Geiger counter. This gas-fi lled instrument allows both the presence and the energy of ionizing particles and radiation to be measured. It is now 100 years since Hans Geiger designed the arrangement of its electrodes, but this construction is still used in most current gaseous detectors. In this arrangement, the electrons produced by collision and ionization of the gas atoms are multiplied in the electric fi eld around a thin wire, and the resulting avalanche of electrons delivers an easily detectable signal. It is only recently that other electrode arrangements for gas counters have been proposed and tested. Besides offering improved properties such as higher counting rates, a certain number of prior conceptions of the electron amplifi cation process had to be revised. These new counters are called Portrait of Gunnar Källén: A Physics this subject, and took a 90° turn with the “micro-pattern gaseous detectors” because Shooting Star and Poet of Early Quantum writing of his book on elementary particles. the same lithographic technique is used Field Theory It is true that Källén failed, while being for their production as is employed in the By Cecilia Jarlskog (ed.) critical of Jacques Bros, Henri Epstein and semiconductor industry. Springer Vladimir Glaser because they were not using In their book, Francke and Peskov Hardback: £62.99 €74.89 invariants. However, Bros–Epstein–Glaser describe the complete historical E-book: £49.99 €59.49 succeeded and proved crossing symmetry, development of these counters and discuss This book is extremely interesting. Mainly allowing proof of the Froissart bound the properties and special features of a collection of testimonies, it helps in without dispersion relations, and providing a each type. Smaller detectors with a understanding the special personality starting point for the Pomeranchuk theorem. sensitive window of up to 30 × 30 cm2 can of Gunnar Källén – his kindness and Because the book is based on testimonies, be built using the lithographic technique aggressiveness. Cecilia Jarlskog is named there is a certain redundancy, in particular exclusively. These are mainly detectors as “editor”, but she is more than an editor in about the accident, but this is unavoidable. in a hermetically sealed housing fi lled having written an informative biography. Overall, Cecilia Jarlskog has done an excellent with high-pressure gas. Detectors of this Källén worked in the “Group of Theoretical job. The plane crash was a tragedy, and if he type are very stable for many years. For Studies” – one of three groups that were set had lived, Källén would certainly have made example, the detector of the two-axis up as part of the “provisional CERN” in 1952 further important contributions. (His two diffractometer D20 at the Institut – which was based in Copenhagen until it passengers – his wife Gonella and Matti von Laue–Langevin has been operating for was offi cially closed in 1957. He later became Dardel – survived the crash. Matti has told 14 years. Detectors with larger sized professor at Lund University, and tragically me that her husband Guy von Dardel and windows work at normal gas pressure and died in 1968 when his plane crashed while he Källén were planning a collaboration between with constant gas current. Their electrodes was fl ying it from Malmö to CERN. a theoretician and an experimentalist. The still have to be assembled precisely I was impressed by Steve Weinberg’s accident put an end to that.) by hand. admiration for Källén – he considers himself ● André Martin, CERN. This handbook should allow every a student of Källén, although he was Sam research scientist to choose and produce Treiman’s student – as well as by that of Engines of Discovery: A Century of Particle the best detector possible for a specifi c James Bjorken and Wolfgang Pauli, who Accelerators. Revised and Expanded application. Numerous pictures with wanted Källén as professor at ETH Zurich. I Edition descriptions and many diagrams assist in cannot comment on the fact that it was fi nally By Andrew Sessler and Edmund Wilson making a good choice, while the detailed Res Jost who was appointed, because I have World Scientifi c bibliography is particularly helpful. the highest esteem for him also. Hardback: £58 ● Anton Oed, who introduced the concept of the It is interesting that Pauli disapproved of Paperback: £32 micro-strip gas chamber in 1988 – at the Institut E-book: £24 Källén’s work on the n-point function. It was ▲ Laue–Langevin. only long after Pauli’s death that Källén quit Also available at the CERN bookshop 74 p75.indd 1 04/09/2014 10:00 CERNCOURIER www.