Topics on Accelerator and Detector Physics:

Below the structure of the lecture is given. Date and PDFs of the lecture are given on the starting point of the sub-topic.

  1. Organization of the lecture/excercises (19.10.2015, pdf)
  2. Accelerator
    1. Introduction (23.10.2015, pdf)
    2. Particle beam
    3. Acceleration by a Force
    4. Simple Accelerator
    5. High Voltage
    6. Van de Graaff Accelerator (26.10.2015, pdf)
    7. Tandem Accelerator
    8. Linear Accelerator
    9. Cyclotron
    10. Microtron (30.10.2015, pdf)
    11. Betatron (06.11.2015, pdf)
    12. Syncrotron
    13. Collider
    14. Example: COSY with cooling technics (13.11.2015, slides)
  3. Syncrotron Radiation
    1. General formalism (16.11.2015)
    2. Longitudinal acceleration
    3. Radial acceleration
    4. Angular distribution (20.11.2015, pdf)
    5. Spectrum
    6. Accelerators for Syncrotron and Apllications (slides)
  4. Linear Beam Optics
    1. Electric charge in comoving coordinate system (23.11.2015, pdf)
    2. Beam-optics coordinates
    3. Solving the equation of motion (27.11.2015, pdf)
    4. Dispersion (30.11.2015, pdf)
    5. Hill's equation (04.12.2015, pdf)
    6. Phase-ellipse
    7. Beam cross-section
    8. Transformation of beta-function (07.12.2015, pdf)
    9. Transformationmatrix from beta-function
    10. Beta-optimization
    11. Betatron Wavenumber (11.12.2015, pdf)
    12. Stability of ring accelerator
    13. Periodic solution
    14. Floquet' transformation
    15. Optical resonances
    16. Qx-Qy diagram
  5. Physics for detectors
    1. Introduction to relevance of detectors (14.12.2015, pdf)
    2. Interaction of charged particles with matter
    3. Ionistation
    4. Bohr's energy-loss calculation
    5. Bethe Bloch equation (19.12.2015, pdf)
    6. Ionisation Yield (04.01.2016, pdf)
    7. Bremsstrahlung
    8. Critical energy
    9. Direct pair-production
    10. Photonuclear interactions
    11. Total energy-loss
    12. Multiple scattering
    13. Interaction of Photons (11.01.2016, pdf)
  6. Detectors for particle physics
    1. Gas ionisation detectors (18.01.2016, pdf)
    2. Multi-wire proportional chambers (22.01.2016, pdf)
    3. Drift Chamber
    4. Cylindrical chambers
    5. Transition Radiation
    6. Time Projection Chamber (25.01.2016, pdf)
    7. Micro-Strip Gas Chamber
    8. MicroMegas
    9. GEM
    10. RPC
    11. Semiconductor
    12. Scintillator (29.01.2016, pdf)
    13. EM-Calorimeter
    14. Cherenkov Radiation (01.02.2016, pdf)
    15. RICH Detetor (pdf)
    16. Hadronic Calorimeter (05.02.2016, pdf)
    17. Photomultiplier Tube
    18. Silicon Photomultiplier
  7. Trigger and DAQ
    1. Triggered event measurement (12.02.2016, pdf)
    2. Readout Chain
    3. Analog signal processing
    4. Digital signal processing
    5. FPGA
    6. ASIC
    7. Multi level trigger

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