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High Energy Experimental Physics I

Lecture Register

Academic year 2021/2022
Lecturer Michael Joseph Morello

Lecture

  • 03 May 2022 (2h 00m)

    Michael Joseph Morello - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    The cross section. The mean free path. Surface density units. Energy loss of heavy charged particles by atomic collisions. The Bethe-Bloch formula. The mean excitation potential and the shell and density corrections.

  • 06 May 2022 (2h 00m)

    Michael Joseph Morello - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    dE/dx vs kinetic energy. Minimum ionizing particles. dE/dx for slow particles. Energy loss distribution (Landau distribution). dE/dx for electrons. Range.

  • 10 May 2022 (2h 00m)

    Michael Joseph Morello - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    Exercises on energy loss of heavy particles and range. Derivation of the energy loss distribution using Bohr formula (classical case).

  • 17 May 2022 (2h 00m)

    Michael Joseph Morello - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    Cherenkov Radiation. Energy Loss of Electrons and Positrons. Energy Loss by Radiation: Bremsstrahlung. Critical Energy and Radiation Length. Range of electrons. Multiple scattering.

  • 24 May 2022 (2h 00m)

    Michael Joseph Morello - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    The interaction of photons in matter: photoelectric effect, Compton scattering, pair production. Strong interactions of hadrons. Drift and diffusion in gases and Lorentz angle.

  • 30 May 2022 (2h 00m)

    Michael Joseph Morello - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    Particle Identification. Time-of-flight counters. Identification by ionisation. Identification using Cherenkov radiation. Ring Imaging Cherenkov detectors (RICH). Use case: LHCb RICH detectors.

  • 31 May 2022 (2h 00m)

    Michael Joseph Morello - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    The Central Outer Tracker (COT) of the CDFII experiment and the measurement of the dE/dx. Hit level corrections and track-based calibration of the dE/dx response. Determination of universal curves. Determination of the statistical separation power between two or more classes of events. Modeling of dE/dx correlations from common-mode fluctuations. Modeling of the dE/dx response.

  • 07 Jun 2022 (2h 00m)

    Michael Joseph Morello - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    Part I - An introduction on ROOT: an open-source data analysis framework used in high energy physics.

  • 09 Jun 2022 (2h 00m)

    Michael Joseph Morello - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    Part II - An introduction on ROOT: an open-source data analysis framework used in high energy physics.

  • 10 Jun 2022 (2h 00m)

    Michael Joseph Morello - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    Presentation of the exam exercise: Particle Identification with Ring-Imaging Cherenkov detector (V1.0).

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