Topic outline
Introduction to the course
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 written test and an 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
The course will be held on the Microsoft Teams Platform.
Calendar:- Monday 11-13
- Thursday 11-13
- Friday 15-16
Start date: Thursday, February 18, 2021
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
- General news and announcements about the course
Course Material
Use your UniPisa account to access Google Drive.
All lecture recordings are in the linked sharepoint folder, accessible with UNIPI credential. They are also accessible from the "Files" tab of the course Teams page. Please note that some of the links from the cource chat are broken because I renamed the files to keep uniformity, and the links in the chat use the file name.
Instrumentation seminars
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:
7-May-2021 Friday 15:00 16:00 Space instrumentation (AMS, Fermi/Glast, IXPE) [Sgro’] 10-May-2021 Monday 11:00 12:00 Large area cosmic ray experiments (Magic, CTA, Auger) [Paoletti] 10-May-2021 Monday 12:00 13:00 Large volume rare events detectors (SuperK, HyperK, Dune, Darkside, Icecube, KM3) [Stracka] 13-May-2021 Thursday 11:00 12:00 Instrumentation for rare decay searches (MEG, Mu2E, Mu3E) [Papa] 13-May-2021 Thursday 12:00 13:00 Forward spectrometers (NA62, LHCB) [Morello] (CANCELED) 14-May-2021 Friday 15:00 16:00 High energy hadron colliders (CDF, CMS, ATLAS, FCChh) [Bedeschi] 17-May-2021 Monday 11:00 12:00 High energy lepton colliders (LEP, ILC, CLIC, FCCee) [Azzurri] 17-May-2021 Monday 12:00 13:00 Low energy lepton colliders (KLOE, BES III, Babar, Belle (II)) [Forti] Seminar will be held on the usual Microsoft Teams Platform for the Course.
Topics for exam
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.