1 section: 627001 Spring 2012 January 11, 2012 Methods and tools used in experimental particle and nuclear physics. Instructor: Yuri Kamyshkov e-mail: kamyshkov@utk.edu tel. office 974-6777 Office Nielsen 505 Class website: http://web.utk.edu/~kamyshko/p627/p627_spring_2012.html Lectures handouts: http://web.utk.edu/~kamyshko/p627/l01.pdf Home Works 1-11 : http://web.utk.edu/~kamyshko/p627/hw01.pdf
Prereqs: (P626 is NOT a prerequisite for P627) Class attendance is a requirement! Please, ask questions, suggest discussion items. Home Work: few problems every week (total 11 HWs) Grades: 55 %-homework (11 x 5%) + Test 1 x 10% + Test 2 x 10% all tests are in class with any open books and calculator (no computer or internet access) + research project : 25% (should result in ~20 min presentation) If more than 4 classes not attended ==> oral exam A > 90%; B> 80%; C>70%; D>60% Please, be exact and show in class on time! Class time: M-W-F from 9:05 pm to 9:55 pm (50 min) or 2 times per week for 75 min? Class room: Nielsen 512
Syllabus HWs Links and Resources; 1-2 Kinematics Natural Units; 3-4 Interactions with Particle Kinematics; matter & GEANT tool Particle Interactions with matter; 5-6 MC and Statistics Monte Carlo methods; 7-10 Detectors Free software tools: PAW, ROOT, GEANT; 11 Electronics Probability and Statistics; Particle Detectors: Ionization, proportional, drift, TPC gas chambers, spark, streamer etc. gas chambers; bubble chambers; scintillation detectors, WLSF; photodetectors, PMT, Cherenkov detectors, TRD, particle ID; vertex reconstruction; momentum measurement in mag. field; semiconductor detectors, Si-, Ge-, Diamond-detectors, bolometers; calorimeters: EM calorimeters, muon detectors, hadron calorimeters, neutrino detectors; electronics, trigger, DAQ, data analysis; Collaborations: proposals, funding, scientific politics.
Books: Important Resource: PDG Particle Data Group http://pdg.lbl.gov C.Grupen "Particle Detectors", Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-55216-8 T.FERBEL "Experimental Techniques in High-Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics", World Scientific, ISBN 981-02-0867-5(pbk) -7(hbk) Glenn F. Knoll Radiation Detection and Measurement, 3 rd ed., ISBN 0-471-07338-5 ISBN-10: 0470131489 ISBN-13: 978-0470131480 Publication Date: August 16, 2010 Edition: 4 Dan Green, The Physics of Particle Detectors, ISBN 0-521-66226-5 Glen Cowan Statistical Data Analysis, ISBN 0-19-850155-2 (pbk) -0(hbk) Byron P. Roe Probability and Statistics in Experimental Physics, ISBN 0-387-97849-6 or ISBN 3-540-97849-6 Louis Lyons Statistics for Nuclear and Particle Physicists ISBN 0-521-37934-2 See also links to other resources at class webpage: http://web.utk.edu/~kamyshko/p627/p627_spring_2012.html
We will need standard computational particle physics tools (FREE): Compiler: C++ or Fortran http://paw.web.cern.ch/paw/ http://paw.web.cern.ch/paw/tutorial/ http://paw.web.cern.ch/paw/reference_manual/ http://root.cern.ch/ (I also have a copy of video ROOT tutorial on 2 CD)
Standard simulation tools (FREE): GEANT (large MC simulation program of particle interactions) As the scale and complexity of High Energy Physics experiments increase, simulation studies require more and more care and become essential for design and optimization of the detectors, for development and test of the reconstruction and analysis programs, and for interpretation of the experimental data. GEANT3 (Fortran) and GEANT 4 (C++). is a system of detector description and simulation tools that helps in detector or method studies GEANT 3: http://wwwasdoc.web.cern.ch/wwwasdoc/geantold/geantmain.html GEANT 4: http://geant4.cern.ch/ FLUKA: (Some optional part of GEANT) a general purpose tool for calculations of particle transport and interactions with matter, covering an extended range of applications spanning from proton and electron accelerator shielding to target design, calorimetry, activation, dosimetry, detector design, Accelerator Driven Systems, cosmic rays, neutrino physics, lab. prototypes, radiotherapy etc. All are parts of CERNLIB (FREE, including various mathematical tools) CERNLIB documentation: http://wwwasdoc.web.cern.ch/wwwasdoc/ http://www.fluka.org/fluka.php Some of CERNLIB programs are installed e.g. at the central UT UNIX /usr/cern2000/2000/bin/ and /usr/cern2000/2000/lib
Computing in P627 Linux (UNIX) platform: all PP tools should be directly available or installable Scientific LINUX http://www.scientificlinux.org/ MAC platform: see http://web.utk.edu/~kamyshko/p627/workingwithamac.pdf One can also use X-windows software included in MAC to access UT UNIX machine for use of compilers, GEANT3, PAW etc. (? ROOT, GEANT4) In LINUX OS X-window client is available as: > ssh your_unix_id@unix.cas.utk.edu On PC platform: most convenient environment is Virtual Machine (VM) Free VM player can be installed from http://www.vmware.com/ : http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_player/4_0 Under VM Player free Scientific Linux patch can be installed (I have one easily configurable for installation on PC requires 15 GB of disk space)
PC Windows OS Windows OS Disk Space Virtual Machine Player E.g. Windows XP E.g. Ubuntu LINUX Scientific LINUX OS Common disk space shared by Windows and Linux OS Sci. Linux reserved