Unit EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES IN HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
- Course
- Physics
- Study-unit Code
- GP005521
- Location
- PERUGIA
- Curriculum
- Fisica delle particelle elementari
- Teacher
- Elisa Manoni
- Teachers
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- Elisa Manoni
- Hours
- 42 ore - Elisa Manoni
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- FIS/04
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- - Passage of radiation through matter (4 hours).
- Particle sources and particle accelerators (4 hours).
- Detectors (4 hours).
- Particle identification (4 hours).
- Data acquisition (4 hours).
- Read-out chains (4 hours).
- Trigger systems (4 hours)
- Correction to apply to raw data (2 hours).
- Data analysis techniques (4 hours).
- Exercise in the IT classroom (4 hours).
- Data normalization and background evaluation (4 hours). - Reference texts
- slides shown during the lectures
- Educational objectives
- At the end of the course the student must have gained knowledge concerning:
1) Particle Detectors and their calibration
2) Accelerator physics
3) Particle identification techniques
4) Data acquisition and selection (online and offline) methods
5) Data analysis and background evaluation techniques
The student must be able, given a measure to perform in particle physics,
to identify the particle source and the layout of the detector to be used.
The student must also be able to evaluate the type of analysis to perform
and the treatment of the possible sources of systematic errors. - Prerequisites
- Elementary particle physics.
- Teaching methods
- Classroom lectures with projected slides and/or the usage of blackboard (38 hours).
Exercise in the IT classroom (4 hours) - Learning verification modality
- Time to time a problem concerning a measurement is given and is solved by the students all together.
- Extended program
- Passage of radiation through matter: Bethe-Bloch, Bremsstrahlung, radiation length, multiple
Coulomb scattering,Compton, pair production, electromagnetic showers, Cherenkov radiation,
nuclear interaction, nuclear interaction length (4 hours).
Particle sources, particle accelerators, accelerator complexes (4 hours).
Detectors: trackers, spectrometers, electromagnetic and hadron calorimeters, scintillating detectors,
detectors of Cherenkov radiation (4 hours).
Particle identification: time of flight, dE/dx, differences between electromagnetic and hadronic
showers, muon detectors, Threshold Cherenkov detectors, RICH, Transition Radiation Detector (4 hours).
Data acquisition: signal propagation, coaxial cables, digital signals (NIM, LVDS, TTL, ECL),
read-out electronics (ADC, discriminators, TDC, QDC) (4 hours).
Read-out chains: dead time and mitigation of its effects, buffer, bus, networks (4 hours).
Trigger systems (4 hours).
Correction to apply to raw data: calibrations, slewing correction (2 hours).
Data analysis techniques: cut based analysis, multivariate analysis, neural networks (4 hours).
Exercise in the IT classroom on a multivariate analysis (4 ore).
Data normalization and background evaluation: MC simulations, wrong signal analysis, side bands and
control regions (4 hours).