EDIT-2012 Detector School at Fermilab

In 2011, Adam Para and Ariel Cattai surveyed young researchers as to their desire for training in particle detectors.

First school at CERN was a response to the strong desire for such, shown in this ICFA survey.

EDIT 2011 was a big success, with 88 students participating.

Fermilab committed to having next school in February, 2012

For graduate students/early Ph.D.’s

10 days of hands-on detector experience, including two days in the test beam. (We wanted this school to emphasize hands-on activities.)

Applications were accepted starting late Summer. 205 applicants for 64 slots!

Local Organizing Committee:Dave Christian, Dmitri Denisov, Patty McBride, Elaine Phillips, Erik Ramberg (chair), Luciano Ristori, Aria Soha, Andrew Sonnenschein

“Excellence in Detector and Instrumentation Technology”

Logistics• 64 students, split into 8 groups of 8

• 4 comprehensive ‘tracks’, of 2 days each: Fundamentals of radiation detection Silicon tracking detectors Photodetection Test Beam

• Stagger groups - only 1 group covers one day’s topic at a time

• Day started with a single plenary lecture at 8:30, followed by transportation to field locations

• In-depth tours of FNAL Facilities and Detector Halls on staggered tour day

• No charge for the school. Students had to pay their own travel and their own lodging.

• School hotel was at Pheasant Run – good choice

(Each color is a different track)

Particle Physics and Fermilab Young-Kee Kim (FNAL)

History of Particle Detection David Nygren (LBL)

Hadron Collider Detectors Dan Green (FNAL)

Silicon Tracking Detectors Dave Christian (FNAL)

Cosmic-Ray and Gamma-Ray Experiments Frank Krennrich (Iowa State)

Neutrino Detectors Karsten Heeger (U. Wisconsin)

Data Acquisition and Signal Processing Wesley H. Smith (U. Wisconsin)

Medical Applications of Detectors Stan Majewski (U. West Virginia)

Astronomical Imaging Juan Estrada (FNAL)

High Intensity and Rare Decay Detectors Augusto Ceccucci (CERN)

Cryogenic Detectors Sunil Golwala (Cal Tech)

Lepton Collider Detectors Jim Brau (U. Oregon)

Outstanding Lecture Series

Accelerator Source and Main Control: Dan Dwyer, Kyle Hazelwood; Dan Johnson

Fermilab Overview:

Herman White.

Application Specific Integrated Circuits Lab:

Al Baumbaugh, Albert Dyer.

Remote Operations Center

Aron Soha

Minos Underground Areas

Luke Corwin, Brian Tice, Hedi Schellman, Brian Rebel, Aria Soha

NOVA Surface

Andrew Norman, Matt Muether, and Martin Frank.

Mini BooNE Detector

Denis Perevalov and Chris Polly.

Super Conducting RF R&D

Kermit Carlson, Elvin Harms, Jerry Leibfritz.

Magnet Factory

Lance Cooley, Dave Harding, Mike Lamm Rodger Bossert and Marie Herman.

CDF

Kevin Burkett, Jonathan Lewis, Silvia Amerio, Steve Hahn, Eric James,

Sergo Jindariani, Ben Kilminster, and Michelle Stancari, Dee Hahn.

D0

George Ginther, and Bill Lee.

Extremely well coordinated day and a half tours

The students

LIST OF INSTITUTIONS:

Mich. State

Florida

Texas

Bologna

Toronto

Miss. State

Heidelberg

Florida State

Zurich

Northwestern

William & Mary

CERN

Boston

Kansas U.

Jozef Stefan Inst.

Santiago

Wisconsin

Yale

Weizmann

Cornell

Fermilab

ANL

Harvard

Chicago

Virginia

LBNL

CIEMAT

Case Western

Nurnberg

Indiana

Alberta

INFN, Pisa

JLAB

Sao Paolo

Tokyo

Baylor

Darmstadt

Delhi

CBPF

Glasgow

Purdue

Peking

Utah

Kansas State

Connectictu

Syracuse

UCLA

DESY

IPNP

Physikzentrum

Fundamentals of Radiation Track

Detectors Studied:• Germanium & background radiation• Liquid Scintillator & lifetime of muon• NaI crystals & speed of light• Fluorescent Argon TPC

Instructors• Andrew Sonnenschein• James White (Texas)• Hugh Lippincott• Fritz DeJongh• Lauren Hsu• Ben Loer• Chris Stoughton

Electroluminescent Ar TPC designed and built for the schoo!

Detectors Studied:• Metrology• Wire-bonding• Probe Station• IV and CV curves• Laser stations• Radioactive source stations

Instructors• Luciano Ristori• Gino Bolla (Purdue)• Marco Battaglia (LBNL)• Piero Giubilato (Padova)• Simon Kwan• SungWoo Youn• Kirk Arndt (Purdue)• Ron Lipton• Dave Christian• Enver Alagoz• Greg Derylo• Benedetto Di Ruzza• Selcuk Cihangir

Silicon Detectors Track

Detectors Studied:• PMT studies:

Plateauing Light leaks Absolute quantum efficiency Gain Shielding

• Fiber tracker• Microchannel Plate Phototube• Silicon Photomultipliers• CCD studies

Instructors:

• Dmitri Denisov• Gaston Guttierez• Leah Welty-Rieger (Northwestern)• Mandy Rominsky• Andreas Jung• Bjoern Penning• Nork Khalatyan• Mike Cooke• Juan Estrada• Donna Kubik

Photodetectors Track

Test Beam Track

Detectors Studied:

• Cerenkov detector• Multi-Wire Proportional Counter• GEM detector• GridPIX (micromegas with Time-Pix)• Cosmic ray telescope triggering• Lead Glass calorimeter• Time-of-Flight• 2nd day consisted of lining up these detectors,

timing them in, and reading out with real beam

Instructors:

• Erik Ramberg• Carsten Hast (SLAC)• Doug Jensen• Ewa Skup• Aria Soha• Geoff Savage• Kondo Gnanvo (U. Va.)• Wilco Koppert & Francesco Zappon (NIKHEF)

Results

• We are still evaluating surveys, but on a scale of 1 to 5, we seem to have a lot of 4’s and 5’s

• Anecdotal evidence says that this school achieved its aims of introducing detailed detector knowledge to a group of young researchers who had not had that experience

• Several students indicated that this was a career transforming event

• Many of the instructors (including myself) were saddened that they could not take the course themselves.

• However, it was an exhausting experience, not to be undertaken lightly.

• Junji Haba, detector research head at KEK, came to the last two days and announced that KEK would host the 2013 school.

My deep appreciation goes to the Accelerator Division heroes who kept the beam running, Mike Roman for accommodating 40 students every day at SiDet and to the real powerhouse behind the school:

Aria Soha