Sumários

Root tutorials

25 Outubro 2019, 08:30 • Valentina Lozza

Root tutorials: fit, TH2D histograms, analysis macro

Scintillator detectors

22 Outubro 2019, 14:00 • Valentina Lozza

- General characteristics

- Setup with PMTs
- Organic and Inorganic scintillator: mechanism of scintillation, response time, light yield and quenching, temperature dependence, pros and cons
- Light detectors: PMTs, APD, SiPM, MicroChannel Plates
- Light guides and wavelength shifters

Solved exercises

18 Outubro 2019, 08:30 • Valentina Lozza

Solved exercises on ionisation, geiger counters, proportional chambers

Gaseous detectors - part II

15 Outubro 2019, 14:00 • Valentina Lozza

Proportional counters

- Formation of avalanche in gases
- Townsend coefficient and gain
- Plain vs cylindrical gaseous detectors: advantages and disadvantages
- Signal formation
- Choice of gas and detector aging
- Geiger counters
- Detector for position resolution: MWPCs, GEM, 
- Drift Chambers
- TPC

Introduction to Root

11 Outubro 2019, 08:30 • Valentina Lozza

Some basic exercises with Root:

- open a root file
- structure
- simple macro and plots of variables