Section outline
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Course goals and organization
The course presents advanced topics in instrumentation for ionizing radiation, with particular focus on applications in nuclear and particle physics, but with examples also from other fields.
The students will acquire knowledge of modern sensor technologies and related electronics and of how they can be organized in a detector system. Examples of how advanced instrumentation is used in physics measurements will also be provided.
The course is organized with classroom lessons and exercise sessions.
The final exam consists of a short presentation (20 min) on a topic chosen among a predefined set followed by a oral examination.
Prerequisites
Advanced electromagnetism, quantum mechanics and special relativity. Electronics laboratory. Basics of interaction of radiation with matter. Attendance of Fundamental Interaction Lab advised.
Organization 2024-25
The course will be held in presence. The Microsoft Teams channel and the Elearning page can be used for communication and material. Please sign up on both platforms.
Calendar:- Mon 10.30-12.30 aula V1
- Thu 10.30-12.30 aula V1
- Fri 9.30-10.30 aula V1
Start date: Monday, February 10, 2025
Slides and study material will be made available on google drive, accessible with UniPisa account.
Instructors
Below you find a list of emails that can be used to contact instructors:
- Francesco.Forti@unipi.it
- Fabrizio.Palla@pi.infn.it
- Fabrizio.Scuri@pi.infn.it
- Giovanni.Signorelli@pi.infn.it
- Franco.Spinella@pi.infn.it
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General news and announcements about the course
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Use your UniPisa account to access Google Drive.
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In the final part of the course some instrumentation seminars are presented by experts in the field, with the purpose of placing the instrumentation technologies in the context of past, present and future experiments. The program is the following:
22-Apr-2024 Monday Aula V1 10:30 11:30 Forward spectrometers (NA62, LHCB) [Pinzino] 9-May-2024 Thursday Aula V1 10:30 11:30 High energy lepton colliders (LEP, ILC, CLIC, FCCee) [Azzurri] 9-May-2024 Thursday Aula V1 11:30 12:30 High energy hadron colliders (CDF, CMS, ATLAS, FCChh) [Bedeschi] 10-May-2024 Friday Aula V1 9:30 10:30 Large area cosmic ray experiments (Magic, CTA, Auger…) [Paoletti] 13-May-2024 Monday Aula V1 10:30 11:30 Space instrumentation (AMS, Fermi/Glast, IXPE, ) [Sgro’] 13-May-2024 Monday Aula V1 11:30 12:30 Large volume rare events detectors(SuperK, HyperK, Dune, Darkside, Icecube, KM3) [Forti] 16-May-2024 Thursday Aula V1 10:30 11:30 Instrumentation for rare decay searches (MEG II, Mu3E) [Papa] 16-May-2024 Thursday Aula V1 11:30 12:30 Instrumentation for rare decay searches (Mu2E, COMET) [Di Falco] 17-May-2024 Friday Aula V1 9:30 10:30 Low energy lepton colliders (KLOE, BES III, Babar, Belle (II)) [Forti] -
For the final exam students have to select a journal paper on a specific topic, on which they have to prepare a short (20 min) presentation that is the starting point of the exam. The presentation will be followed by question on the course program.
The list of proposed papers is here.
Link to exams on Teams.