physics722

Advanced Gaseous Detectors - Theory and Practice (E) - physics722

CourseAdvanced Gaseous Detectors - Theory and Practice (E)
Course No.physics722
CategoryTypeLanguageTeaching hoursCPSemester
ElectiveLecture with laboratoryEnglish3+16ST
Requirements for Participation:

Preparation: Completed B.Sc. in physics, with experience in electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, nuclear and particle physics, physics618 (Physics of Particle Detectors)

Form of Testing and Examination: Requirements for the examination (written or oral): submission of report

Length of Course: 1 semester

Aims of the Course:
  • Design, construction, commissioning and characterization of a modern gaseous particle detector

  • Simulations: GARFIELD, GEANT, FE-Methods, etc.

  • Signals, Readout electronics and Data Acquisition

  • Data analysis: pattern recognition methods, track fitting

  • Scientific writing: report



Contents of the Course:
  • Signal formation in detectors

  • Microscopic processes in gaseous detectors

  • Readout electronics

  • Tools for detector design and simulation

  • Performance criteria

  • Laboratory course: commissioning of detector with sources, beam test at accelerator

  • Track reconstruction



Recommended Literature:

http://root.cern.ch

http://garfieldpp.web.cern.ch/garfieldpp/

Blum, Rolandi, Riegler: Particle Detection with Drift Chambers

Spieler: Semiconductor Detector Systems



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