This is a comprehensive text on a class of instruments used by scientists to study the innermost structure of matter. The author, one of the world's leading experts in this field, describes the principles of operation, the factors determining performance, and the state-of-the-art in understanding and application of these instruments.

• 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

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.