530219 Radiation Detection Systems in Particle Physics (5 op)

Spring 2007

 

Lecturer:

Francisco García

HIP B312 

191 50513 

 

 

 

 

Assistant:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lectures:

Tue  14-16 

Aud D106 

(Periodi III)

 

 

Aud D106

(Periodi IV)

 

 

 

 

 

Exercises:

 At home 

 

Study and presentation of one type of detector.

 

 

 

Textbooks:

G. Knoll: Radiation Detection and Measurements, 3rd edition, 1999

 

G. Lutz: Semiconductor Radiation Detectors. Device physics, Springer, 1999

 

H. Spieler: Semiconductor Detector Systems. Oxford University Press, 2005

 

W.R. Leo: Techniques for Nuclear and Particle Physics Experiments: A How-to-Approach, 2nd edition, springer- Verlag, 1994

 

Konrad Kleinknecht: Detectors for Particle Radiation, 2nd edition, Cambridge University press, 1998

 

B. G. Streetman: Solid State Electronic Devices. 6th edition, Pearson, 2006

 

A. D. Helfrick: Modern Electronic Instrumentation and Measurement Techniques. Prentice-Hall inc, 1990

 


Course Plan: Radiation Detection Systems in Particle Physics

 

 

Lectures:

1.      Introduction – Radiation Sources

2.      Introduction – Interaction of Radiation in Matter

3.      Scintillators

4.      Scintillators – Study Case: High Efficiency Ion Detector with Low Sensitivity to Background n-g

5.      Semiconductor Detectors – Part I

6.      Semiconductor Detectors – Part II

7.      Semiconductor Detectors – Study Case: Pixel Detectors for Digital Image Applications

8.      Gas Detectors – Part I

9.      Gas Detectors – Part II

10.  Gas Detectors -  Study Case: Micro Pattern Gas Detector for the T2 Tracker of the TOTEM experiment