- Docente: Jorge Eduardo Fernandez
- Credits: 3
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Energy Engineering (cod. 0935)
Learning outcomes
To offer an advanced tool for solving problems in radiation physics, comprising the knowledge of radiation measurement devices and computational techniques which are typical of this branch.
Course contents
- Radiation detectors. Types of detectors: scintillators, solid state. Resolution for the different types of detectors. Calibration of a detector. Response function. Unfolding of the source spectrum.
- Emission of an x-ray tube. Fundamental principles. Law 1/r^2. Spectrum of an x-ray tube: influence of the current and the voltage.
- Attenuation of x-rays. Experiments of transmission and reflexion. Filters.
- Determination of the density of a material by using x-ray scattering.
- Determination of chemical composition of a material by using x-rays.
Readings/Bibliography
Lecture notes
Teaching methods
Lessons are integrated with practical training on the PC and on the radiation laboratory.
Assessment methods
To pass the examination the candidate has to present a written description of the experimental and computational solution of a practical problem in radiation physics.
Teaching tools
Videoprojector, PC's, slide projector, computer and radiation laboratories
Links to further information
Office hours
See the website of Jorge Eduardo Fernandez