School 2020
Exploration Series
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