The Physics of Particle Detectors (MVHE2, MVSpec)

The Physics of Particle Detectors

Lecture and Journal Club
SS 2024

Prof. Dr. Silvia Masciocchi
PD Dr. Felix Sefkow

Lectures on Mondays 11:15 - 13:00
INF227 3.402

Journal Club on Fridays 14:15 - 16:00
NEW: INF226 glass box (first floor, room K4)

Lecture

Content

Focus of the lecture is the physics and the layout of detector components used in modern particle physics experiments.

After understanding the interaction of radiation with matter, we will study how different materials and technologies are employed to measure charged and neutral particles. The working principles of gas and semiconductor detectors, of scintillators, calorimeters and other devices will be discussed. We will learn how different detectors can be employed to measure various properties of particles, such as position, momentum, energy, velocity, identity, etc. We will also see how different technologies are combined in general purpuse particle physics experiments, and how solutions are developed for specific applications.

Particle detectors enabled discoveries through decades of physics research, and they allow us to learn about the smallest, the hottest, the coldest, the most fundamental constituents of matter.

Schedule

The lectures will be held in INF 227 (KIP), room 3.402 on Mondays, 11:15 - 13:00.

Journal Club

The journal club takes place in INF 226 (PI) in the Glassbox (first floor, room K4) on Fridays, 2:15-4 PM.

Schedule

Literature

H.Kolanoski, N.Wermes: Particle Detectors, Oxford. Link UB (English), Link UB (German)

K.Kleinknecht: Detectors for Particle Radiation, Cambridge

W.R.Leo: Techniques for Nuclear and Particle Physics Experiments, Springer

T.Ferbel, Experimental Techniques in High Energy Physics

F.Sauli, Instrumentation in High Energy Physics, World Scientific

C.W.Fabjan and J.E.Pilcher, Instrumentation in Elementary Particle Physics, World Scientific

R.Wigmans: Calorimetry: Energy Measurement in Particle Physics, Clarendon Press

W.Blum und L.Rolandi, Particle Detection with Drift Chambers, Springer

Lectures on Particle Detectors:

 The Physics of Particle Detectors (SS2023)

 The Physics of Particle Detectors (SS2022)

Further links:

 Review of Particle Physics

 SLAC Online Particle Physics Information

Material

• 01_sma_Introduction.pdf
• 02_sma_InteractionsWithMatter_1.pdf
• 03_sma_InteractionsWithMatter_2.pdf
• 04_sma_GasDetectors_1.pdf
• 05_sma_GasDetExamples_ALICE_TPC.pdf
• 06_sma_Semiconductors_1.pdf
• 07_sma_Semiconductors_2.pdf
• 08_sma_Semiconductors_3.pdf
• 09_sma_Scintillators_PhotonDetectors.pdf
• 05_sma_GasDetectors_2.pdf
• ParticleDetectors_Lecture9.mp4
• 10_sma_MagneticSpetrometers.pdf
• 11_sma_ElectromagneticCalorimeters.pdf
• 12_sma_HadronicCalorimeters.pdf
• 13_ExperimentsAndMore.pdf
• ParticleDetectors_Lecture10.mp4
• 14_sma_GSI_FAIR.pdf

Practice groups

• Group Lecture Group (Silvia Masciocchi)
  26 participants
  INF 227 03.402, Mon 11:15 - 13:00