Module 1. Particle Detector Project (PDP) – mandatory
Workload: 8 ECTS (240 hours, 1 semester)
Final assessment: oral or written exam, not restricted in attempts

Components:

• Project Introduction (PDP-a)

• Transfer Task (PDP-b)

• Final Presentation (PDP-c)

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 radiointerferometric 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.

Module 2. Detector Physics (DET) – mandatory
Workload: 8 ECTS (240 hours, 1 semester)
Final assessment: 30-minutes oral exam, not restricted in attempts

Components:

• Lab course on Detector Physics (DET-a)

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.

• Detector Physics (TPDP-a)

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. Upload of protocols of two experiments in sufficient quality is needed to complete.

• Exercises Detector Physics (TPDP-b)

Contents of the lecture are practiced in dedicated exercises. Upload of at least 10 solutions of the exercises corresponding to at least 50% of the points is required to complete.