EXPERIMENTAL METHODS FOR PARTICLE PHYSICS

The course is aimed to introduce the student to the technologies used in particle physics experiments. In particular, the student will learn how is designed a detector to be used in collider physics. In addition, the basic block of analysis strategies and Monte Carlo simulations will be addressed. The student will learn how to use object oriented program and the root package.

- Particle Physics Detector Design
o Tracker detectors for particle momentum determination
o Electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters
o Particle identification and Cherenkov Detectors.

− Semiconductor Tracker detectors: silicon pixel and microstrip detectors
o Tracking
o Alignment
o Radiation hardness

− Hadron and leptonic colliders. Precision and discovery physics: how to design a detector.

− Laboratory measurements
o with microstrip silicon detectors
o with Cherenkov detectors
o SiPM characterization

Glenn F. Knoll Radiation Detection and Measurement John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Claus Grupen, Boris Shwartz Particle Detectors Cambridge University Press