The Detector Physics and Applications Center - DePAC

A new project, the "Detector Physics and Applications Center (DePAC)", is p resented. DePAC is a general detector and sensor database, which is not app lication specific, on the Internet. DePAC collects and explains the physics , the technology and the application of a wide range of radiation detectors . DePAC also collects and describes information about noise problems, front -end electronics, data transfer, processing and storage. DePAC provides sho rt write-ups and source code of all sorts of detector related software depe nding on availability. DePAC collects useful constants and properties of, m aterials in an exhaustive series of tables and graphs. DePAC also acts as a point of contact for researchers and industry in an interdisciplinary way, e.g. in biology, in medicine, in materials research and in high energy or nuclear physics. Last but not least, DePAC aims to develop also into a virt ual lecturing school and serves as a tutorial for students and all interest ed scientists. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.