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Parallel to the development of accelerators there has been a continuous progress of detection methods for charged and neutral nuclear particles. They are based on direct ionization of gases, liquids, and solids accompanying energy loss processes, or following recoil and scintillation processes. Visualization methods such as cloud chambers, photoplates, and bubble chambers competed with direct electronic readout methods such as in Geiger counters, solid state detectors, and scintillator-photomultiplier detectors. Modern developments include exact mass (particle identification), momentum, position, and energy determination of each single event registered. Together with sophisticated digital data reduction the reconstruction of nuclear reaction details and extraction of observables is possible, e.g. also in modern applications such as accelerator mass spectroscopy or in the most complicated Higgs detections systems at the LHC/CERN.
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Paetz gen. Schieck, H. (2014). Detectors, Spectrometers, and Electronics. In: Nuclear Reactions. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 882. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-53986-2_17
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