EXPERIMENTAL METHODS FOR PARTICLE PHYSICS
Academic Year 2020/2021 - 1° Year - Curriculum NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICSCredit Value: 6
Scientific field: FIS/01 - Experimental physics
Taught classes: 21 hours
Exercise: 45 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
Learning Objectives
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.
Course Structure
Frontal lessons (3 CFU) and laboratory activities (3 CFU). Students will be addressed to work together and to share their results.
Should the circumstances require online or blended teaching, appropriate modifications to what is hereby stated may be introduced, in order to achieve the main objectives of the course.
Detailed Course Content
- 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
Textbook Information
Glenn F. Knoll Radiation Detection and Measurement John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Claus Grupen, Boris Shwartz Particle Detectors Cambridge University Press