Entry requirements

BSc with 60 ECTS credits physics, or equivalent, including Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic and molecular physics. Solid state physics.

Learning outcomes

- account for the mechanism behind ionising radiation and its interaction with matter.

- account for the principles behind detection of ionising radiation.

- build basic experimental setups for measurements of ionising radiation.

- calculate and evaluate measuring parameters.

- analyse and evaluate results from measurements of ionising radiation.

- account for various applications within industry, medicine and science.

Content

- Ionising radiation and its interaction with matter.

- Detector models.

- Signal treatment and electronics.

- Data analysis.

- Semiconductor detectors and pulse electronics.

- Germanium detectors and spectroscopy.

- Background radiation and shielding.

- Scintillation detectors and neutron detection.

- Applications.

Instruction

The course consists of three parts: an introduction (self-studies with supervision), an experimental part (four laboratory work) and an application part (project work).

Assessment

For passing the course, all three parts should be examined with at least grade 3. The parts of the course are examined through home exercises (introduction), laboratory reports (experimental part) and presentation of a project work before the course group (application part). For achieving grade 3, the student is required to be able to appropriately account for the field comprised by the course. For a grade 4 it is required that the student can solve common measuring problems and adequately account for the results. To obtain grade 5 the student should adequately indicate that he or she is able to design and use a setup for measuring ionising radiation and properly analyse and account for the results.