029:225 Techniques for Nuclear
and Particle Physics Experiments
Spring Semester 2008
10:30A - 11:20A MWF
618
VAN
Instructor: Yasar Onel
Phone: (319) 335-1853,
Fax: (319)
335-1753
Email: yasar-onel@uiowa.edu
Office Hours: Wednesday
1:30-3:30 PM
Text : W.R. Leo,
Techniques for Nuclear and Particle Physics Experiments, Springer-Verlag
1. Introduction
2. Basic Nuclear Processes in Radioactive Sources
2.1
Nuclear level diagrams
2.2
Alpha decay
2.3
Beta decay
2.4
Electron capture
2.5
Annihilation Radiation
2.6
Neutron Sources
2.7
Source Activity Units
2.8 The radiactive
decay law
3.
Passage of Radiation Through Matter
3.1 The cross section
3.2 Interaction probability in a distance x Mean Free Path
3.3 The interaction of charge particles and
radiation
with matter
3.4 The Bethe Bloch Formula
3.5 Energy dependence
3.6 Scaling laws for dE/dX
3.7 Mass stopping power
3.8 Range
3.10
Energy loss of electrons and positrons
3.11
Radiation length
3.12
The interaction of photons
3.13
The photoelectric effect
3.14
Compton scattering
3.15
Pair production
4.
Radiation Protection, Biological Effects of Radiation
6. Accelerators and beams
7. Detectors
7.1
General detectors
7.2
Proportional counters
7.3
Drift counters
7.4
Cerenkov Counters
7.5
Scintillating detectors
8.
Calorimetry
8.1
Electron-photon calorimeters
8.2
Hadron calorimeters
9.
Momentum measurement
10.
Electronics
11.
Pulse Signals in Nuclear Electronics
12.The NIM Standard
13.
Pulse Height Selection and Coincidence Technique
14.Electronic Logic for Experiments
15.
Timing Methods and systems
16.
Computer Controlled Electronics ( CAMAC)
17.
Spin Physics
17.1
Spin phenomenology
17.2
Polarization Observables
17.3
Polarized beam and targets
18.
SU(3) and the Quark Model, Classification
and dynamic
probes
19.
Nucleon Structure from scattering experiments
20.
Quark and Gluon Interaction
21.
Evidence for Partons : Neutrino-Nucleon and e+e-
annihilation cross sections at high energy.
22.
Hadron Colliders
22.1
The physics of the Large Hadron Collider
(LHC)
22.2
CMS Experiment at LHC
22.3
The US contribution to the CMS at LHC
22.4
Experimental challenge at LHC
23.
Projects
23.1
Project A : Detectors and physics results
from a
fixed target experiment
23.2
Project B : Detectors of physics results
from a
colliding beam experiment.
23.3
Project C : Detectors for a medical
research project