EXPERIMENTAL METHODS FOR PARTICLE PHYSICS
Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: Catia Maria Annunziata PETTAExpected Learning Outcomes
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 particle physics.
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.
Required Prerequisites
Attendance of Lessons
Detailed Course Content
- Particle Physics Detector Design
- Tracker detectors for particle momentum determination
- Electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters
- Particle identification and Cherenkov Detectors.
- Detector design for Neutrino Physics with accelerators
- Liquid Argon TPC’s
- Emulsion detectors
- Particle identification and Cherenkov Detectors.
- Hints about specific Particle Physics and Neutrino Physics experiments
- Laboratory measurements
- measurements with Cherenkov detectors
- SiPM characterization
- Data taking in particle or Neutrino Physics
Textbook Information
Glenn F. Knoll Radiation Detection and Measurement John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Claus Grupen, Boris Shwartz Particle Detectors Cambridge University Press