Calorimetry

Richard Wigmans was born in the Netherlands. He studied physics in Amsterdam (PhD, 1975). Until 1991, he worked at CERN as a research scientist. He engaged in the fundamental aspects of calorimetry, in particular the compensation mechanism. In 1991, he relocated to the USA, attracted by the prospects of the Superconducting Super Collider then under construction in Texas, where Texas Tech University offered him an endowed chair in the department of physics. In 2012, the Institute of Elecrical and Electronics Engineers awarded him the Outstanding Achievement award for Radiation Instrumentation. Wigmans is considered one of the world's leading experts on calorimetric particle detection.

• 1: Introduction: Seventy Years of Calorimetry 2: The Physics of Shower Development 3: The Energy Response of Calorimeters 4: Fluctuations 5: Instrumental Aspects 6: Calibrating a Calorimeter System 7: Performance of Calorimeter Systems 8: New Calorimeter Techniques 9: Analysis and Interpretation of Test Beam Data 10: Calorimeters for Measuring Natural Phenomena 11: Contributions of Calorimetry to the Advancement of Science

Calorimetry is the most exhaustive compilation of the knowledge on calorimeters in particle physics... Wigmans keeps [his]finger on the pulse following new developments in calorimetry, performance studies of existing detectors and advances of science achieved via application of the calorimeters.