ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 9 Interactive Classroom: 12 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Particle Physics
Areas: Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics
Center Faculty of Physics
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
Achieve basic knowledge of the students on particle accelerators and detection systems of ionizing radiation.
Students will understant the particle acceleration mechanisms.
Students will be introduced to the methods of detection of ionizing radiation.
Students should be able to design and evaluate the fundamental characteristics of a radiation detector.
I-Accelerators:
Particle accelerators. Electrostatic and cyclic accelerators. Maxwell's equations and principles of acceleration of charged particles.
Electrostatic Accelerators:
X-ray generators. Neutron generators. Van der Graaff accelerators. Cocroft-Waltom accelerator. Tandem accelerator.
Cyclic accelerators:
Cherenkov radiation and synchrotron radiation.
Radio frequency acceleration. Magnetron.
Wideroe accelerator.
Linac. Waveguide. Dispersion equations. Accelerator cavity. Transit time and capture condition.
Klystron.
Cyclotron. Synchro-cyclotron. Iso-cyclotron. Betatron. Microtron. Rhodotron.
Synchrotron. Beam stability conditions. Linear beam optics. Dipole and quadrupole. Hill equations. Linear algebra for beam optics. FODO structure.
II-Detectors
Principles of detection of ionizing radiation. Direct and indirect detectors. Passive and active detectors. Counter detectors and integrators.
Ionizing and non-ionizing modes of energy loss. Fano's theorem. Intrinsic and extrinsic energy resolution of a detector.
Gas detectors. Drift and diffusion of charge carriers in gases. Operating modes of gas detectors. Ionization, recombination and attachment. Shockley-Ramo theorem. Proportional mode. Townsend coefficients. Streamer mode. Position and time sensitive detectors.
Solid state detectors. Semiconductors and dielectrics. The p-n junction. Fundamental characteristics.
Scintillators. Organic and inorganic scintillating materials. Properties. Photodetectors.
Electronics. Voltage amplifier. Current amplifier. Charge sensitive amplifier. Signal shaping. Analog and digital signal processing. Modular electronics. Common buses: RS232, GPIB, USB, Ethernet (LXI), PCI (PXI), etc. latency and bandwidth.
Experiments in Nuclear and High Energy Physics.
III. Laboratory. Construction of a detector from basic materials.
The Physics of Particle Accelerators Klaus Wille, Oxford University Press 2001
Particle Accelerator Physics Helmut Wiedemann, 3 ed Springer 2007
Radiation Detection and Measurement Glenn F. Knoll, 4 ed John Wiley & Sons
Measurement and Detection of Radiation Nicholas Tsoulfanidis, 2 ed Taylor & Francis
The student will acquire basic skills in:
a) use of particle accelerators
b) development and characterization of ionizing radiation detectors
Seminars and interactive classes 22 h: Exposition of the fundamentals of particle acceleration equipment and generation of ionizing radiation, together with the principles of radiation detection.
Each week there will be a seminar session of problems that students must solve previously.
Experimental practices 8 h: According to the availability of material and time, the construction/evaluation of a detector in the laboratory will be proposed.
The qualification be obtained as:
60% of the grade from the continuous evaluation of the activity and interest shown by the student throughout the course and weekly exercises.
40% of the grade from the evaluation of the work done by the student in the experimental practice.
Activity in class: 20h
Laboratory activity 10h.
Individual Tutoring: 1h.
Personal activity of work, study and data analysis at home: 44h
The study of the basic bibliography and scientific-technical publications on the subject is recommended. Likewise, carrying out the exercises and laboratory work will allow the student to understand and follow up the lessons
Diego Gonzalez Diaz
Coordinador/a- Department
- Particle Physics
- Area
- Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics
- diego.gonzalez.diaz [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
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