Assignments

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Reading/Practicing
Acquire or access the ANSEL adopted Knoll Textbook.
Weeks Jan 14, 21, 2022: Course lab lecture notes:

Weeks Jan 21 & 28, 2022
>>> Study UR official Radiation Safety Procedures and pass associated safety test (use links provided by the UR Radiation Safety Group), required for performing experiments with radioactive sources.

Practice data analysis with Igor data analysis software,
use : 1) Ba-133 event file with a single wave, 2) Co-60_Ge event file with multiple waves.

Reading Knoll Ch. 4 (General Properties of Radiation Detectors),
........................... 9_I-9_V (Photomultiplier Tubes)
........................... 2_I-2_III (Radiation Interactions).

Weeks Feb 6 & 13 & 20, 2022
Practice data analysis with Igor,
use your own event file as a single wave for
........................... 1) Plotting, scaling,
........................... 2) Fitting Gaussian shapes to gamma lines.
........................... 3) Deriving an energy calibration,
........................... 4) Review fit procedures, chi-squared values

........................... 5) Construct framework for report (sample calcs, data tables, figures,..)

Reading Knoll Ch. 2.I (Interactions of heavy charged particles),
........................... Ch.3II/IV (Statistics, Error propagation), Ch.12 (Germanium gamma detectors)
........................... Ch. 16 & 17 (Signal processing)
........................... Ch. 20 (Shielding and background)

Reading Bevington Ch. 4 (General Properties of Radiation Detectors),

Other Assignments

Download IGOR software from the TWiki site using procedure discussed in Lab Lecture 1. Practice initial tasks outlined. Study Guided Tour IGOR Pro which is available on via another page on this course web site.

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