Name: Radiation detection and measurement
ISBN: 9780470131480

Radiation detection and measurement

"This is the resource that engineers turn to in the study of radiation detection. The fourth edition takes into account the technical developments that continue to enhance the instruments and techniques available for the detection and spectroscopy of ionizing radiation. New coverage is presented on ROC curves, micropattern gas detectors, new sensors for scintillation light, and the excess noise factor. Revised discussions are also included on TLDs and cryogenic spectrometers, radiation backgrounds, and the VME standard. Engineers will gain a strong understanding of the field with this updated book."

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unsungAug 2023

Krane's Introductory Nuclear Physics is often considered a standard text, and includes a crash course in quantum that might be enough for someone comfortable with linear PDE's. You may also like Knoll's Radiation Detection and Measurement if you are interested in electronics and apparatus.

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sabootOct 2018

For the field of nuclear engineering applied to detecting sources of radiation..

Radiation Detection and Measurement by Knoll is our bible.

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thadtFeb 2024

> It should be emphasized that activity measures the source disintegration rate, which is not synonymous with the emission rate of radiation produced in it's decay. Frequently, a given radiation will be emitted in only a fraction of all the decays, so a knowledge of the decay scheme of the particular isotope is necessary to infer a radiation emission rate from its activity.[1]

It's a metric for a source - not a receiver. So if we're going to use Becquerels, then we're really talking about needing to characterize the sources making the requests, not the servers receiving them. Which is great information to characterize, but still leaves us needing a metric for counting the requests seen vs those that are started but never reach the server.

If we're still excited about doing things like people measuring radiation, then we could use counts per time unit. Like, counts per second, for example.

BUT - not all requests are equal. Next up, we measure how many resources are consumed in serving each request. I expect my next system dashboard to have a metric for RES (Röntgen Equivalent Server).

[1] Knoll, 'Radiation Detection and Measurement' (3rd Ed) p2.

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