Lecture Notes

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Lecture Topics:

1. Introduction to ANSEL (Lect 1)
   ........Virtual lab tour (pdf)
   ................Experiment Schedule, tentative (pdf)
   ................ANSEL Lab Manual (pdf)
   ................Guide to Lab Report (pdf)
   .....................Template ANSEL Report (doc)
   Lexture Series:
   (L 1)(L 2)(L 3)(L 4)(L 5)(L 6)(L 7) (L 8a) (L 8b) (L 9) (L 10) (L 11) (L11a) (L 12)(L 13)
   
   
2. Intro to Data Aquisition and Analysis
   ........ Signal Processing (Lect 2)
   ..............Task Sheet Oscilloscope (pdf)
   ........ DDC Data Acquisition (Lect 3)
   ..............BlackBox DDC-8 User's Guide (pdf)
   ........Data Analysis with IGOR (Lect 2b)
   ........IGOR Manual (WorkShop, self-study)
   ..............Demo NaI Scintillation Detector (pdf)
   ..............Practice event file Co-60_Ge (.txt)
   ..............Practice event file Co-60_NaI (.xls)
   
   ........Elements of Statistical Data Analysis (Lect 8b)
   
   
3. Nuclear NIM Electronics (pdf)
   .......Expt. Task Sheet Scope/Electronics (pdf)
   .......Digital Electronics (Lect 4)
   .......Signal Processing Circuits (L 7)(L 7a)
   
   
   
4. Terrestial Radiation Environment (Lect)
   ........Nuclear Decay, Kinetics (pdf)
   ........Nuclear Beta Decay (pdf)
   
   ........Radiation Safety (Mis) (pdf)
   
   
5. Interactions and Detection of Radiation
   ........Ionization Mechanism (Lect 5a)
   ................Electromagnetic Radiation (Lect 5a),
   ................Charged Particles (Bethe-Bloch) (L 9),
   ................Photon Spectra (Lect 5)
   ........Neutron Radiation and Detection (pdf)
   ........Detectors for Ionizing Radiation (Lect )
   ................Solid-State Detectors (Lect 8a)
   ................Gas Amplification Detectors (L11a)
   ................Scintillation Detectors (pdf)
   
   
6. Experiment Photon Spectroscopy (Lect 5)
   ........Expt. Task Sheet Spectroscopy with NaI Detectors (pdf)
   .................Videos setup & timing (V1, V2, V3)
   .......Expt. Task Sheet Spectroscopy with HPGe Detectors (pdf)
   
   
7. Experiment Alpha Spectroscopy
   ........Ionization Detectors (Lect 7)
   ........Expt. Task Sheet alpha spectroscopy (pdf)
   
   
8. Multi-Parameter Experiment: Gamma Radiography, Angular correlations
   ........Imaging, Gamma-Gamma Angular Correlations (Lect 10)
   ........Expt. Task Sheet gg correl/gamma-radiography (pdf)
   
   
   
9. Experiment Mössbauer Effect (pdf)
   ........Expt. Mössbauer-PC Tasks (pdf)
   ........Expt. Mössbauer Tasks I (pdf),
   ........Expt. Mössbauer Tasks II (pdf),
   ..........Data Files
   ................PC cal Files Ba133nA(txt), Ba133Abs(txt)
   ................Vel Files Calibration_Co57(zip), K2MgFe(zip), Fe2O3(zip),Fe2O3(zip),FeC2O(zip)
   
   
10. Experiment Cosmic Muons (pdf)
     .........Cal Cosmic Muon Tasks (pdf) 
    ..........Cosmic Muon Tasks I-IV (pdf)
    ..........Data Files
    .............Muon momentum distribution (prn txt)(xls),
    .............AT Cal files Na-22 (txt), Cs-137(txt)
    .............AT energy mu transmitted (txt), energy mu stopped (txt)..
    .............AT Cal files Na-22 (txt), Cs-137(txt)
    .............Tel timing files AT-2 (txt), AT-3 (txt), T1-T2(txt),  
    .............Time calibrator Muon lifetime (txt)
    .............Muon lifetime run1(txt), run2(txt)
    
    
11. Experiment Neutron Radiography and Forensics
    ........Experiment on neutron activation, lifetime analysis (pdf)
    

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