Detector Physics (DET)

Each module has to be completed with 8 credit points.

2nd (summer) semester module

Module 1. Particle Detector Project
ID: PDP
Compulsoriness: Compulsory
ECTS credits: 8
Workload: 240 hours
Duration of Module: 1 semester
Semester: Summer (2nd)
Qualification goals: The students know how to apply techniques of particle detection and reconstruction to particular detector setups. They are able to simulate the response of particle detectors to incident particles. They know how to operate and control detectors, record data in laboratory setups and analyse these data. They are able to use modern software tools, including parallel computing techniques, in performing to above mentioned tasks. The students obtain hands-on experience in state-of-the-art experimental equipment (tunneling microscopy). The students can choose their detector project from the following fields: Implementation of multivariate techniques for track reconstruction in field programmable gate arrays, simulation and optimisation of calorimetric measurements with the GEANT package, simulation of air showers with the CORSIKA package, simulation of the propagation of charged particles and their interactions in the universe, simulation of radio-interferometric measurements in air showers, and operation and calibration of large particle detectors using modern distributed computing techniques and web architectures, scanning probe techniques, x-ray probes.
Assessment Measures: Assessment of folder, contents, time and form of each single achievement will be announced at the beginning of the semester.

Components of the Module

PDP-a. "Project Introduction"
Compulsoriness: Compulsory
Form of Study: Exercises
Weekly Hours: 1
Overall Workload: 60 hours
Contents: The students work through prepared detailed work sheets introducing them to the topic of the project. The introduction to the project provides the necessary knowledge and technical competence to work on the transfer task (PDP-b). They present their results in a short presentation.

PDP-b. "Transfer Task"
Compulsoriness: Compulsory
Form of Study: Exercises
Weekly Hours: 4
Overall Workload: 150 hours
Contents: The students work out the solution to a task which was particularly defined for their project.

PDP-c. "Final Presentation"
Compulsoriness: Compulsory
Form of Study: Seminar
Weekly Hours: 1
Overall Workload: 30 hours
Contents: The students present the results of their project in a 45 minutes long presentation. All students working on a project should attend.

3rd (winter) semester module

Module 2. Detector Physics
ID: DET
Compulsoriness: Compulsory
ECTS credits: 8
Workload: 240 hours
Duration of Module: 1 semester
Semester: Winter (3rd)
Qualification goals: The students master the physical principles and the components of particle accelerators as well as their functions. They can perform simple computations of linear beam optics. The students know how to describe the interaction of different forms of particle radiation with matter and they are able to connect this knowledge to techniques, methods and components of modern detectors and experiments in particle and astro-particle physics. The students will be enabled to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of different detector types. They can explain the use and the interplay of detectors in large experiments. The students know about basic laboratory techniques of detecting particles, perform simple experiments and analyse recorded data.
Assessment Measures: oral module examination (30 minutes), unrestrictedly repeatable. The registration to the final module exam is possible only when ungraded protocols 81023 and ungraded solutions 81024 are successfully completed.

Components of the Module

DET-a. "Lab course on Detector Physics"
Compulsoriness: Compulsory
Form of Study: Practical exercises
Weekly Hours: 1
Overall Workload: 60 hours
Description: Upload of ungraded protocols (81023) of two experiments in sufficient quality
Contents: Choice of two of the following experiments: silicon strip detector, Compton scattering, Rutherford scattering or muon lifetime, reciprocal space probes in condensed matter physics, spectroscopic imaging.

TPDP-a. "Detector Physics"
Compulsoriness: Compulsory
Form of Study: Lectures
Weekly Hours: 3
Overall Workload: 90 hours
Contents: Linear and circular accelerators. Betatron and synchrotron oscillations. Linear beam dynamics. Interaction of particles with matter, shower, momentum- and track- measurement, track detectors (gas chambers), semi-conductor detectors, time measurement, energy measurement (calorimeter), particle identification, experiments of particle and astro-particle physics, instrumentation, data acquisition.

TPDP-b. "Exercises Detector Physics"
Compulsoriness: Compulsory
Form of Study: Exercises
Weekly Hours: 1
Overall Workload: 90 hours 
Description: Upload of at least 10 ungraded solutions (81024) of the exercises corresponding to at least 50% of the points
Contents: Contents of the lecture are practiced in dedicated exercises.