Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Calorimetry in High Energy Physics: Lisbon, Portugal, 13-19 June 1999

by Maria J. Varanda (Editor), G. Barreira

Over 100 papers begin with an overview of measuring calories at high energies, with discussions of a historical introduction to the field, calorimetry with crystals, and cryogenic calorimeters in astrophysics and particle physics. Then they cover low and medium energy calorimetry, ionization calorimetry, calorimetry with crystals, calorimetry in hot physics, calorimetry for hadrons with jets with Cerenkov and organic scintillators, calibration and monitoring, calorimetry with organic scintillators, electronics and data acquisition, radiation hardness, medical applications, simulating calorimeter performance, neutrinos and calorimetry, calorimetry for astrophysics, and the present and future of the field. Lovely color photographs of the conference are provided, but no index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

880 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2000