Description:

This laboratory exercise is a practical introduction to fundamental principles of detection of ionizing radiation (IR), interaction of IR with matter, and functionality and settings of particular types of detectors and detection systems.

Seminar contents:

1. Principles, functions and settings of scintillation probe with NaI(Tl) and ?-plastic detectors.
2. Principles, functions and settings of Geiger-Müllerovy tube.
3. Fundamental principles of liquid scintillation counting, alpha and beta radiation measurement.
4. High resolution gamma-ray spectrometry ? fundamentals and measurement.
5. Statistics of counting of ionizing radiation.

Recommended literature:

Key references:
1. Manuals for Practical Exercises in Detection of Ionizing Radiation, set of material, 2017
2. Atomic Act 263/2016 Coll. as amended
3. Decree of the SÚJB Nos. 422/2016 Coll. as amended
4. G. F. Knoll: Radiation Detection and Measurement, 4. vyd., J. Willey & Sons, New York, 2010

Recommended references:
5. W. H. Tait: Radiation Detection, Butterworths, 1980 ? available in Local Faculty Library, FNSPE CTU in Prague
6. D. Loveland, D. J. Morrissey, G. T. Seaborg: Modern nuclear chemistry, 2nd Ed., John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey, 2017

Keywords:

Detection, ionizing radiation, spectrometry, scintillation detectors.

Abbreviations used:

Semester:

• W ... winter semester (usually October - February)
• S ... spring semester (usually March - June)
• W,S ... both semesters

Mode of completion of the course:

• A ... Assessment (no grade is given to this course but credits are awarded. You will receive only P (Passed) of F (Failed) and number of credits)
• GA ... Graded Assessment (a grade is awarded for this course)
• EX ... Examination (a grade is awarded for this course)
• A, EX ... Examination (the award of Assessment is a precondition for taking the Examination in the given subject, a grade is awarded for this course)

Weekly load (hours per week):

• P ... lecture
• C ... seminar
• L ... laboratory
• R ... proseminar
• S ... seminar