Tracking in High Energy Physics
Lecture notes
Part I (Carsten Niebuhr) (PDF - 6.6 MB)
Part II (Carsten Niebuhr) (PDF - 11.1 MB)
Part III (Carsten Niebuhr) (PDF - 17.7 MB)
Part IV (Guillaume Leibenguth) (PDF - 2.1 MB)
Part V (Guillaume Leibenguth) (PDF - 1.9 MB)
Part VI (Guillaume Leibenguth) (PDF - 1.7 MB)
Part VII (Guillaume Leibenguth) (PDF - 1.1 MB)
Abstract
The development of tracking devices has played a decisive role for the progress of experimental particle physics. Since the invention of Mutli Wire Proportional Counters in 1968 by George Charpak, who later was awarded the Nobel prize in 1992, gas detectors have been steadily developed further. As a result a large variety of gas detector types is in use in most modern particle physics experiments and in other areas of science.
The fine segmentation of solid state (silicon) detectors makes them particularly suited for high precision tracking and vertexing. A rapid development has started around 1980 aiming at an increase of active detector area, on rate capability and on radiation hardness of solid state detectors.
The lecture will introduce the basic concepts of track measurement and vertexing and discuss the basic physics processes which are relevant for the detection of charged particles and which govern the detector design. Examples of various detector types with some emphasis on those being built for the LHC will be discussed in some detail. The audience is expected to have some basic knowledge of quantum mechanics and solid state physics.
Carsten Niebuhr
Guillaume Leibenguth