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School 2020

Exploration Series

  • Overview: pdf

June 4

June 18

July 9

July 23

  • Paper: Characterization and performance of germanium detectors with sub- keV sensitivities for neutrino and dark matter experiments
  • Facilitators: Lakhwinder Singh, B. Vivek Sharma and C. Shin-Ted Li
  • Papers/Points to Ponder
  • Session Recording

August 6

School 2020

Concepts of detector electronics

Outline

This course will provide a survey of analog electronic concepts relevant for physics students working with detectors in particle and nuclear physics.

Useful resources

Modules

Module 1: Principles of Circuit Theory and Passive Components

  • Watch the lecture
  • Read the lecture notes and work through exercises here
  • Post questions and comments to the Slack channel.

Module 2: Transmission Lines, Characteristic Impedance, and Noise

  • Watch the lecture
  • Read the lecture notes and work through exercises here.
  • Post questions and comments to the Slack channel.
  • Send an email to the instructor rhenning@unc.edu when you have read the notes and watched the lecture so that we can track how many students participated.

Module 3: Diodes, Transistors, Amplifiers, and Feedback

  • Watch the lecture
  • Read the lecture notes and work through exercises here.
  • Post questions and comments to the Slack channel.
  • Send an email to the instructor rhenning@unc.edu when you have read the notes and watched the lecture so that we can track how many students participated.

Module 4: Transfer Functions, Filters

  • Watch the lecture
  • Read the lecture notes and work through exercises here.
  • Post questions and comments to the Slack channel.
  • Send an email to the instructor rhenning@unc.edu when you have read the notes and watched the lecture so that we can track how many students participated.

Module 5: Detector Electronics, Grounding

  • Watch the lecture
  • Read the lecture notes and work through exercises here.
  • Post questions and comments to the Slack channel.
  • Send an email to the instructor rhenning@unc.edu when you have read the notes and watched the lecture so that we can track how many students participated.

School 2020

Hands-on Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation

Notice: Based on the entrance survey result, the instruction will be at the graduate level. If You have not used command line and/or compiled C++ before, please try to learn them by yourself before the course. Here are some resources to start with:

Week 1, What we can achieve after 10 weeks

Week 2, Install Geant4

Week 3, Compile a Geant4 application

Week 4, Visualize detector geometry

Week 5, Construct your detector

Week 6, Generate primary particles

Week 7, Understand the physics

Week 8, Analyze the output

Week 9, Simulate radioactive decays

Week 10, Simulate optical photons