Time Table

1. Material:
   • Introduction
   • Particle detector "shell" model
   • Particle accelerators
   exercises, answers (1, 2, 3)
2. Material:
   • Betatron motion
   Presentation: luminosity measurement at lepton and hadron colliders (L3 publication; CDF publication)
   exercises, answers (1, 2)
3. Material:
   • Betatron motion (cont'd)
   • Acceleration
   exercises, answers
4. Material:
   • Beam cooling
   • Resonances
   Presentation: measurement of the LEP beam energy (publication; seminar; LEP Energy Working Group web page)
   exercises, answers
5. Material:
   • Interactions of charged particles
   • Gaseous tracking detectors
   Lab course: simulation work
   Presentation: stochastic cooling (Nobel lecture, van der Meer; CERN Accelerator School lectures; FNAL antiproton department website; CERN Antiproton Decelerator website)
   exercises, answers (1, 2)
6. Material:
   • Solid state tracking detectors
   • Scintillation
   Lab course: silicon diode characterization.
   Presentation: the ATLAS Muon Chamber system (Technical Design Report; photographs; muon spectrometer homepage)
   exercises, answers (1, 2)
7. Material:
   • Cherenkov radiation and detectors
   • Electromagnetic calorimetry
   Presentation: detailed treatment of Delphi Vertex detector (Delphi publication; Delphi experiment's web page)
   exercises, answers, supplement
8. Material:
   • Electromagnetic calorimetry (cont'd)
   • Hadronic calorimetry
   Presentation: none
   exercises, answers (1, 2)
9. Material:
   • Triggering and data acquisition
   Presentation: cosmic ray events and the atmosphere as a calorimeter (review article; Auger experiment's web page)
   exercises, answers
10. Material:
    • Weak Interactions
    Presentation: measurement of g-2(muon) by the Muon g-2 Collaboration (review article; g-2 experiment's web page)
    exercises, answers (1, 2, 3)
11. Material:
    • Weak Interactions (cont'd)
    Presentation: discovery of the tau lepton (Nobel lecture, Perl; Goldhaber & Cahn)
    exercises, answers (1, 2)
12. Material:
    • The Strong Interaction
    Lab course: extraction of sin²theta_W from LEP data
    Presentation: discovery of the top quark (review article; CDF experiment's web page)
    exercises, answers
13. Material:
    • The Strong Interaction (cont'd)
    Presentation: determination(s) of the number of neutrino species (prospects; L3 publication (method 2); L3 publication (method 1); L3 experiment's web page)
    exercises, answers
14. Material:
    • Mixing and CP Violation
    Presentation: measurement of CP violation in B_d -> J/psi K_S (BaBar Physics Book; BaBar publication; BaBar detector paper; BaBar experiment's web page)
    exercises, answers
15. Material:
    • Mixing and CP Violation (cont'd)
    exercises, answers

Notes:

• Presentations should be roughly 20 minutes long and should be understandable by fellow students
• Lab courses & exercises: results should be handed in 4 weeks after the final lecture (latest)
• Literature references not pointing to Web resources refer to hardcopies (which will be provided)