Particle detector
In experimental particle physics, a particle detector is a device used to track and identify high-energy particles, such as produced by nuclear decay, cosmic radiation, or reactions in a particle accelerator. Detectors designed for modern accelerators are huge, both in size and in cost. The notion counter is often used instead of detector.
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Types of detectors
Modern particle detectors are constructed from several of these types, often arranged similar to the layers of an onion. Each type forms a subsystem of the complete particle detector.
- Cloud chamber, Diffusion chamber
- Bubble chamber
- Photographic plates
- Photomultiplier
- Photodiodes
- Streamer tube
- Cherenkov detector,Aerogel detector
- RICH (Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detector)
- Transition radiation detector
- Gaseous ionization detectors (Ionization chamber, Proportional counter, Geiger-Mueller tube)
- Scintillation counter
- Semiconductor detector
- Spark chamber,Wire chamber
- Drift chamber,Jet chamber
- Multiwire Proportional Chamber (MWPC)
- Straw chamber
- Silicon detector
- Time projection chamber (TPC)
- MicroStrip Gas Chamber (MSGC)
- Calorimeter
- Time of flight detector