1998-99 SLUO Lectures on Detector Techniques
(Organizer: Jerry Va'vra)
Lectures will be Fridays at 11:00 AM in the SLAC Auditorium,
with exceptions as noted below.
1
Fri., Sept. 11 Gaseous detectors - basic concepts I.
J. Va'vra
(Electrostatics, stability, electron drift, gases)
* Fri., Sept. 18 No lecture
2 Fri., Sept. 25 Gaseous detectors
- basic concepts II. J. Va'vra
(Diffusion, gain, resolution limits, etc.)
3 Fri., Oct.2. Gaseous detectors - Photon detectors
J. Va'vra
(Single electron detection, different geometries)
4 Fri., Oct. 9 Gaseous detectors - Central tracking
L. Rochester
("Catch 22's" in central tracking)
5 Fri., Oct. 16
Gaseous detectors - Novel tracking detectors J. Kadyk
(GEM, MICROMEGA, PIXEL detectors)
6 Fri., Oct. 23 Silicon detectors - basic concepts I.
H. Spieler
(Principles, signal detection)
7 Fri., Oct. 30 Silicon detectors - basic concepts II.
H. Spieler
(Noise, S/N, shaping, role of capacitance)
8 Mon., Nov. 2*
Silicon detectors - CCD vertex detectors C. Damerell
(SLD, NLC vertex detectors based on CCDs)
9 Fri., Nov. 6 Silicon detectors - Novel detectors
S. Parker
(3D concepts,introduction to manufacturing techniques)
* Fri., Nov. 13 No lecture this week
* Fri., Nov. 20 No lecture this week
* Fri., Nov. 27 No lecture this week
10 Fri., Dec. 4 Electronics - basic concepts I.
H.Spieler
(Bipolar, Field effect transistor)
11 Fri., Dec. 11 Electronics - basic concepts II.
H.Spieler (Timing meas.,Pulse height...)
12 Fri., Dec. 18 Electronics - basic concepts III.
H.Spieler (Why things do not work)
* Fri., Dec. 25 Christmas break
* Fri., Jan. 1 Christmas break
13 Th., Jan. 7** Calorimetry - basic concepts I.
J.Brau
(Historical review, basic physics)
14 Th., Jan. 14** Calorimetry - basic concepts II.
J.Brau
(Examples: Lead glass, liquid argon,
uranium-scintillator)
15 Fri., Jan. 22 Calorimetry - Crystal detectors
H.Marsiske
(BaBar, etc.)
16 Fri., Jan. 29 New Particle I.D. concepts
B.Ratcliff
(DIRC, etc.)
17 Fri., Feb. 5 Astrophysics detectors
H. Sadrozinski
18 Fri., Feb. 12 Neutrino detectors
D. Nygren
19 Fri., Feb. 19 Cryogenic detectors
B. Cabrera
(IR, optical, UV and X-ray cryogenic)
20 Fri., Feb. 26 Cryogenic detectors
B. Cabrera
(The CDMS (cryogenic dark matter search))
Note: * Moved from Friday to Monday due to scheduling conflicts.
** Moved from Friday to Thursday due to scheduling conflicts.