September 2010
Here you will find some generic information on the organization of the School. It
spans over two full weeks (31 Jan-10 Feb 2011). Students are divided in 8 small
groups of about 10 people. Every day, each group follows, for the whole day,
lectures and laboratories on the same subject. There are 8 subjects: Silicon,
Pixels, Electronics 1, Electronics 2, Photo-detectors, Light detection, Gaseous
detectors, Calorimetry. The scheme is below:
Each day has the following organization for the Calo block:
9:00-10:00: Lecture 1 “ Principles of calorimetry and main techniques in
present-future HEP experiments: part 1” Lecturers : R. Wigmans , D.Fournier , M.
Diemoz
10:00-13:00: Laboratory 1 (students choose 1A or 1B).
Lab. 1.A “Calibration of an ATLAS Tile calorimeter barrel wedge using a
moveable 137 Cs g source”. Labo 1A Professors of excellence and Tutors: M.Nessi,
A.Henriques, O. Solovyanov, S. Solodkov, J. Starchenko, H. Wilkens +…....
Lab. 1.B “Characterisation of the optics properties of PbWO4 CMS crystals”
Labo 1B 1A Professors of excellence and Tutors: F. Tedaldi-Nessi,C. Casella
13:00-14:30 Lunch break
14:30:-15:30 Lecture 2“ Principles of calorimetry and main techniques in
present-future HEP experiments: part 2” ” Lecturers : R. Wigmans , D.Fournier ,
M. Diemoz
15:30-18:30 Laboratory 2 (students choose 2A or 2B).
Lab. 2A “A MC exercise with Particle flow method using the CALICE
calorimeter set-up” …adjust title - with Lecturers Lab. 2A Professors of excellence
and Tutors: F. Sefkow, Angela Lucaci
Lab. 2B “Characterisation of the optics properties of a scintillating plastic Tile
using a 90Sr b source”. Lab. 2B 1A Professors of excellence and Tutors: M.Nessi,
A.Henriques, O. Solovyanov, S. Solodkov, J. Starchenko, +…+…
The basic elements of Calorimetry will be given to the students in two hours of
theory. A preliminary content of the theoretical lectures is posted in the web and
looks like below:
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Signal generating mechanisms
The signal from sampling and longitudinally segmented calorimeters
Composition of a shower and its evolution as it develops
Linearity and calibration for sampling and longitudinally segmented calorimeters
e/h and its impact on hadronic energy resolution, response function, signal
linearity
Factors determining e/h
Calorimeter clusters and noise suppression
Particle reconstruction and identification in a calorimeter
The jet energy scale
The particle flow and the use of tracking to improve the calorimeter calibration
R&D projects aimed at improving the quality of calorimetric measurements in
future experiments
We will arrange and finalize the content of the theoretical lectures with the
professors that will give the course and with each of the professors of the lab. In
this way we will optimize the sharing between what they will present and what
you will present.
Each lab session will start with ~1/2h introduction of quite high level where the
tutors give description of the laboratory
There are two “anomalous” day in the program The Monday 31/1 and the
Saturday 5/2. The draft programs are below:
Monday 31/1 preliminary program
9:00
9:15
welcome & opening
follows morning session dedicated to the future
9:15
10:15
High Energy Physics: the future, the challenges - S. Bertolucci
10:45
coffee
10:45
11:45
The challenges in astroparticles – G. Smoot (TBC)
11:45
12:45
Extremes in electronics – Bernie Meyerson
Director of IBM Systems & Technology Group
lunch
14:00
15:00
15:00
16:00
16:30
16:30
17:30
17:30
18:30
follows an afternoon session dedicated to detectors
conception, techniques, history and vision
Key detectors for Particle Identification 40 years of achievements and failures with gaseous detectors F. Sauli (TERA fundation)
coffee
18:30
Integrated semiconductor detectors for tracking and energy
measurement: how to use new technologies – H. Heijne
A critical analysis from past to future techniques in Calorimetry
- tbd
closing
19:00
welcome cocktail
Saturday 5/2 preliminary program
9:00
9:50
these lectures point to be the "trait d'union" between
detector response and data-analysis
Finding vertexes and tracks - D. Bortolotto
9:50
10:40
The energy flow concept: from LEP to LHC - P. Janot
coffee
11:00
11:50
Effect of material budget on track and energy reconstruction
11:50
12:40
Si read-out: where the bug can hide 1 – H. Spieler
lunch
14:00
15:00
14:50
15:50
Si read-out: where the bug can hide 2 – H. Spieler
From raw data to physics: where the bug can hide – A. Hoeker
follows an OPTIONAL visit to the test beam or to ATLAS underground