GARFIELD: A general-purpose program to compute drift properties, avalanche multiplication and simulate gas detectors(developed by Rob Veenhof at CERN)
GARFIELD technical notes
MAXWELL: A commercial program for general-purpose 3-D field calculations, has been used for simulating detectors. For information to CERN users only.
MAGBOLTZ: Steve Biagi's program to compute drift and multiplication properties of electrons in gases.
Electron Cross Sections: Data for MAGBOLTZ.
Properties of some gases used in tracking detectors: Computed by Rob Veenhof and Archana Sharma, a collection of representative plots of drift and diffusion of electrons in gases without and with magnetic field.
X-Ray Interactions with Matter: properties off X-ray absorption and reflection
X-Ray Data: Energy levels, Absorption, Scattering
WEB ELEMENTS: Periodic table
GEM fields: Electric fields in the Gas Electron Multiplier computed with Maxwell-Garfield, by Peter Cwetanski.
MIT compilation of drift gases: Electron drift velocities and diffusion in many gases and gas mixtures.
ICFA Instrumentation Bulletin; Bulletin of the ICFA Instrumentation panel, with topical articles on detectors.

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