The Physics of Particle Detectors

Lectures

This is a tentative plan for our course. Based on your experience and interests, we can tune it during the semester.

Practice groups

• Group LEC + JC (Masciocchi, Bachmann, Dunford)
  23 participants
  Mon 14:00 - 16:00Fri 10:00 - 11:30

Material

• ParticleDetectors_Lecture5.mp4
• sma_Semiconductors_1.pdf
• ParticleDetectors_Lecture6.mp4
• sma_Introduction.pdf
• sma_InteractionsWithMatter_1.pdf
• ParticleDetectors_Lecture2.mp4
• sma_InteractionsWithMatter_2.pdf
• ParticleDetectors_Lecture3.mp4
• sma_GasDetectors_1.pdf
• ParticleDetectors_Lecture4_incomplete.mp4
• sma_Semiconductors_2.pdf
• ParticleDetectors_Lecture7.mp4
• sma_Semiconductors_3.pdf
• ALPIDE_PD_31may.pdf
• ParticleDetectors_Lecture8.mp4
• sma_Scintillators_PhotonDetectors.pdf
• ParticleDetectors_Lecture9.mp4
• sma_MagneticSpetrometers.pdf
• ParticleDetectors_Lecture10.mp4
• sma_ElectromagneticCalorimeters.pdf
• ParticleDetectors_Lecture11_part1.mp4
• sma_GasDetectors_2.pdf
• sma_HadronicCalorimeters.pdf
• ParticleDetectors_Lecture12.mp4
• Meeting5July.zip
• 20210712_PhysicsOfParticleDetectors_HD-SS21.pdf
• ParticleDetectors_Lecture11_part2.mp4
• sma_WrapUp.pdf
• ParticleDetectors_Lecture13.mp4

talks

• Fri   16.4.2021 10:00   Introduction
  Silvia Masciocchi, Monica Dunford, Sebastian Bachmann, Bogdan Blidaru
• Fri   30.4.2021 10:00   Hadron Therapy (MD)
  Alexander Junkermann
  Material to read for the class: Amaldi_Kraft_HadronTHerapy.pdf (entire paper but the historical part can be read lightly)
  • sharpShooters.pdf
  • Amaldi_Kraft_HadronTHerapy.pdf
  • DetectorPhysics_HadronTherapyAJ.pdf
• Fri   7.5.2021 10:00   Transition Radiation Detectors & Resistive Plate Chambers (MD)
  Samuel Lehr, Jakob Stricker
  Sections to read: Transition Radiation Detectors - Sect 1-4 Resistive plate chambers - Sect 1, 2 and 5
  • nim101.pdf
  • RPC-TOF-FOPI.pdf
  • MM_RPCs.pdf
  • 2021_PoPD_JC_TRD.pdf
• Fri   14.5.2021 10:00   GEM detectors (BB)
  Mathias Josef Backes, Marius Wilm Menzel
  Material to read for the class: 1-s2.0-S0168900296011722-main.pdf (whole paper) Speakers will prepare a discussion about GEMs and their applications, with a focus on the CASCADE thermal neutron detector
  • 1-s2.0-S0168900215008980-main.pdf
  • 1-s2.0-S0168900216303722-main.pdf
  • 1-s2.0-S0168900296011722-main.pdf
  • Cascade_mbackes.pdf
• Fri   21.5.2021 10:00   Gas detectors with drift time measurement (SB)
  Sophie Rohletter
  Sections to read: 1,4 and 5
  • LHCB-OT-Performance.pdf
  • OuterTracker_LHCb.pdf
• Fri   28.5.2021 10:00   Semiconductors for energy measurements and Silicon Strip Detectors (SB)
  Stephan Lachnit, Gino Gianfranco Rincon
  Material to be read by the class: 1. Sections 1, 2, 3 and 7 from Eur. Phys. J. C (2013) 73:2330 2. Physics Procedia 37 ( 2012 ) 867 – 873 (full paper)
  • Ackermann2013_Article_TheGerdaExperimentForTheSearch.pdf
  • PhysRevLett.125.252502.pdf
  • 1-s2.0-S1875389212017804-main.pdf
  • 1-s2.0-S0168900220305283-main.pdf
  • Belle2SiliconVertexDetector.pdf
  • GERDA.pdf
• Fri   4.6.2021 10:00   Pixel Detectors (BB)
  Ioana-Alexandra Nitu
  Material to be read by the class - from 1-s2.0-S0168900213006840-main.pdf : Abstract, ch 1, 2, Conclusion ; - from 1-s2.0-S0168900216303825-main.pdf : Abstract
  • 1-s2.0-S0168900213006840-main.pdf
  • 1-s2.0-S0168900216303825-main.pdf
  • Pixel.pdf
• Fri   11.6.2021 10:00   Scintillators & Photon detection (SB)
  Daniel Kreuzberger, David Schledewitz
  Please read both papers. 6 and 8 pages to be read.
  • ieNSS17_SciFi.pdf
  • Otte.pdf
  • DetectorPhysics_SiliconPM.pptx
  • Presentation_SciFi_Daniel_Kreuzberger.pdf
• Fri   18.6.2021 10:00   Particle Id & Magnetic spectrometers (SB)
  Lorenzo Calza, Shixuan Yang, Shaun Yang
  The paper by Lobashev and Spivak as well as the paper by Neville Harnew should be read by everybody. The third paper is additional material on the Katrin-Experiment.
  • 1909.06048.pdf
  • 1-s2.0-0168900285906400-main.pdf
  • LHCb-PROC-2005-023.pdf
• Fri   25.6.2021 10:00   Calorimetry (MD)
  Lukas Mandok, Miguel Ruiz Díaz
  Reading for Calice: Sections 1-3, 7
  • CALICE_E.pdf
  • MetallicMagneticC.pdf
  • CALICE_AHCAL_-_Presentation_-_Lukas_Mandok.pdf
  • MMCal.pdf
• Fri   2.7.2021 10:00   Calibration & Trigger (MD)
  Florian Frauen, Lennart Henning Uecker
  Trigger: Sections 1, 2 and 5.2 Calibration: Intro, 2, 3, 4
  • 2005.04179.pdf
  • ATL-LARG-PROC-2018-001.pdf
  • Calibaration.pdf
• Fri   9.7.2021 10:00   A full experiment (MD)
  Luis Pazos Clemens, Janine Hempfling
  For both papers, read the full paper. Don't worry. They are both short!
  • 0309004.pdf
  • 1711.07692.pdf
  • 20210709_full_experiment_Hempfling.pdf
  • SNO.pdf