2022-10-10 - 2022-10-14
Norbert Wermes
University of Bonn
Semiconductor detectors, most notably silicon micro-pattern detectors, constitute today’s detector type of choice for particle tracking and vertexing in high energy physics experiments. The lecture series will give a tour through the physics, technology and applications of such detectors and will contain the following content:
- Fundamentals of semiconductor detectors and their response to particles and radiation
- Charge transport and signal generation in semiconductors (incl. Ramo theorem and weighting field)
- Strip and pixel detector technology
- Signal processing and noise in semiconductor readout
- Monolithic pixel detectors
- Radiation damage: physics and measures for mitigation
- Precision timing with silicon detectors
The focus will be on silicon as semiconductor material. Differences and particularities of other semiconductors will be pointed out. Spin-off applications are touched in passing.
