880.P20 Winter 2006 Richard Kass 1 Interaction of Particles with Matter In order to detect a particle it must interact with matter! The most important.
880.P20 Winter 2006 Richard Kass 1 Scintillation Devices As a charged particle traverses a medium it excites the atoms (or molecules) in the the medium.
880.P20 Winter 2006 Richard Kass 1 Energy Measurement (Calorimetry) Why measure energy ? I) Not always practical to measure momentum. An important contribution.
