Particle Detectors
Lecture in the area of “Advanced Experiment” (Particles and Fields) of the Freiburg Physics Master Studies
Starting on Thursday, October 22, 2015
Lecturer
Prof. K. Jakobs Gustav-Mie-Haus, 3rd floor, Room # 03-021
Consultation hours: Friday 11:00 - 12:00 am
Phone: 203-5713
Email: karl.jakobs@uni-freiburg.de
Secretariat:
C. Skorek
Phone: 203-5715
Email: christina.skorek@physik.uni-freiburg.de
Dates
- Thursday, 10:15 - 12:00 am (see also lecture plan), Attention: Lecture takes place in Seminar room, GMH
- Friday, 08:15 - 10:00 am, SR Room, GMH
- Exercises: Monday, 14:15-16:00, HS II, Physics Highrise
General information
- Updated lecture plan (pdf)
- General comments (pdf)
- Exercises will be distributed weekly and have to be returned by Thursday 10:00 am of the following week in the mail box #1 in the foyer of the Gustav-Mie-House.
- Written examination on Friday, February 19th, 2016 from 10.00h - 12:00h (Hörsaal I, Phyiscs Highrise).
(2nd pass on March 21st, 2016 from 10.00h - 12.00h) - Registration for the written exam necessary on the web interface.
Slides
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3 (for further reading: Chapter 3.4 Neutrinos)
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5, Chapter 5b, Chapter 5c
- Chapter 6a, Chapter 6b, Chapter 6c, Chapter 6d
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
Exercises
- Problem set 1 (pdf)
- Problem set 2 (pdf)
- Problem set 3 (pdf)
- Problem set 4 (pdf)
- Problem set 5 (pdf), some useful root objects and functions for the numerical exercise (pdf)
- Problem set 6 (pdf)
- Problem set 7 (pdf)
- Problem set 8 (pdf)
- Problem set 9 (pdf)
- Problem set 10 (pdf) and the basic main program including README (link)
- Problem set 11 (pdf)
- Problem set 12 (pdf)
Literature
- K. Kleinknecht, Detectors for Particle Radiation, Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition (2008)
- W.R. Leo, Techniques for Nuclear and Particle Physics Experiments, Springer Verlag
- C. Grupen, Teilchendetektoren, BI Wissenschaftsverlag (1993) (also translated to C. Grupen, Particle Detectors, Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition (2011) )
- H. Kolanoski and Norbert Wermes, Detektoren für Teilchen, Springer Verlag, to appear in November 2015, 960 pages
- C. Lippmann, Particle identification, arXiv:1101.3276 [hep-ex]