Lectures & Journal Club (SS2012)
This course is evaluated as follows: 2h lectures/week = 3 credit points 2h exercise/week = 2 credit points
Minimum number of participants: 4
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The course will cover the physics of particle detectors.
It will introduce the experimental techniques used in nuclear, particle physics and photon science, and describe the layout and functionality of modern experiments.
The lecture includes the interaction of particles with matter, scintillators and time-of-flight detectors, the principle of gas chambers, silicon detectors, modern calorimetry and detectors for particle identification.
Large detector systems as used at accelerators like HERA, the LHC and the Tevatron and the future ILC and XFEL will also be discussed.
At the end of the course, students will be familiar with modern detection methods in high energy and photon physics. They will have the basis to perform measurements of ionization, position, energy and momentum of particles, as well as particle identification and timing measurements. Through the journal club they will develop competence in quickly and critically acquiring information from publications other then textbooks. Students will learn how to structure a scientific publication (like a thesis or a scientific paper) and the basic rules of scientific writing. |
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