Lecture schedule

Lectures

• Slides: Introduction
• Slides: General principles of detectors and the accelerator
  • Condensed Slides
• Slides: Particle interaction with matter
  • Student presentations discussing each of the LHC detectors
• Slides: Particle interaction with matter continued
  • Quiz 1
• Slides: Bethe-Bloch
• Slides: Energy loss by ionization and bremsstrahlung
• Slides: Revision and truncated means and introduction to semiconductor detectors
  • Quiz 2
• Slides: Code setup and fitting and continuing with semiconductor detectors
• Slides: Code setup for muon collider
• Slides: Tracking Detectors
• Slides: Tracking Detectors and Calorimetry
• Student discussions
• Slides: Calorimetry
• Slides: Hadronic showers
• Slides: Calorimetery condensed
• Slides: Shower fluctuations and installing GEANT4
• Slides: Reading the CLD paper
• Slides: Reading the CLD paper (calorimetry) and revisiting accelerator basics
• Slides: Additional material on detectors (CLD-like)
• Discussion on content of midterm
• Slides: Cherenkov detectors
• Midterm
• GEANT Installation
• Slides: Scintillators
• Slides: Scintillators continued
• Midterm discussion and paper discussion
• Slides: Scintillators continued
  • Homework 3 (homework requiring canvas submission)
• Discussion on scintillators and Slides: Particle Identification
  • Some material about likelihood
• Slides: Particle identification
• Slides: Gas filled detectors
• Slides: Gas filled detectors
• Slides: Gas filled detectors continued
• Slides: Triggers and readout
  • In-class exercise
• No slides: discussion on STAR detector and final projects
• Slides: LHC machine
  • Homework 4 (homework requiring canvas submission)
• Slides: Back to accelerator basics
• Slides: Back to accelerator basics and future colliders