Sumários

Ionization chambers

7 Outubro 2020, 14:00 Valentina Lozza

Detector based on ionising radiation:
  • Introduction
  • Operation modes
  • Historical detectors: could chamber, bubble chamber, emulsion based detectors
  • Mechanism of gas ionisation: drift and diffusion velocities
  • Ion mobility
  • Diffusion with electric and magnetic field
  • Operation regime for gaseous detectors
  • Ion chamber and proportional mede
  • Signal formation and shape


Tutorial: Root

2 Outubro 2020, 08:00 Valentina Lozza

Small Root tutorial:

  • macros
  • define variables
  • 1D -2D plots


Strong and weak interactions

30 Setembro 2020, 14:00 Valentina Lozza

Energy loss by strong and weak interactions.

Strong interaction:
  • cross section and interaction length 
  • electromagnetic and hadronic showers
  • Spallation reaction and their importance for rare event searches
  • photonuclear reactions
  • neutron interaction with matter
  • thermal neutron capture cross section
Weak interaction:
  • Sources of neutrinos
  • First experiment for neutrino detection
  • neutrino interaction with matter
  • charge and neutral currents
  • Signal identification


Interaction of particles with matter: electrons and photons

25 Setembro 2020, 08:00 Valentina Lozza

Solve exercise: Bethe-Bloch for alpha particles

Energy loss by electrons, positrons: 

  • ionisation effects 
  • bremstrahlung radiation: dependance on Z, screening effect and critical energy 
  • radiation length X0 
  • Other types of scattering: Moller, Bhabha, annihilation 

Energy loss by gammas:  

  • photoelectric effect 
  • Compton scattering 
  • Pair creation 
Electromagnetic shower 


Energy loss in matter: heavy charged particles

23 Setembro 2020, 14:00 Valentina Lozza

  • Cross section
  • Mean free path
  • Process of interaction of radiation with matter: energy loss of heavy particles (alpha, protons,...), formula of Bohr
  • Bethe-Bloch formula
  • Cherenkov radiation + application
Introducing the energy loss of electrons in matter
  • bremsstrahlung and ionisation