The detectors part of "Frontiers of Particle Physics II" , 2009.

There is no substiutute for a good textbook such as:

• "Detectors for Particle Radiation" by Konrad Kleinknecht. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521648548. This covers all aspects of detectors at a reasonable price.
• "Radiation Detection and Mesurement" by Glenn F. Knoll. Wiley. ISBN 0-471-07338-5. A thourough textbook, written mainly with nuclear physics in mind, but also useful for particle physics. Expensive but there are some copies in the library.

If you are determined to live without textbooks the following free material is adequate for this course:

• The Particle Data Group's authoritative reviews of "The passage of particles through matter" and "Experimental methods" (and everything else in particle physics).
• The Particle Detector BriefBook by Bock and Vasilescu is a set of definitions and brief descriptions of particle detector techiques. Fully cross referenced. A good place to start, even though most of the figures are missing.
• DR101 is nice detailed description by D.Peterson of a real drift chamber as built for the CLEO experiment. But beware the section on signal generation (slides 25,26), refer instead to Appendix D of Knoll for a valid description.
• Slides used in week 1 , week 2 , week 3 .
• Revision summaries for week 0 , week 1 , week 2 , week 3 .

Steve Snow. ( stephen.snow@cern.ch )