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(3) Interaction of high energy photons with matter - LUTH

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Some Detector Types in High Energy (Astro)physics<br />

Gas-filled detectors<br />

– proportional and Geiger counters<br />

– wire chambers, drift chambers<br />

– time projection chamber<br />

– spark chambers<br />

Solid state detectors<br />

– semiconductor devices (e.g. CCD)<br />

– scintillation detectors<br />

– crystal detectors<br />

– Cherenkov detectors (see Chap. 2)<br />

– transition detectors (see Chap. 2)<br />

A. Zech, Instrumentation in High Energy Astrophysics<br />

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