| Course Name | Detector Physics |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| PHYS 406 | Fall/Spring | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | English | |||||
| Course Type | Elective | |||||
| Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Online | |||||
| Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course | Problem SolvingQ&ALecture / Presentation | |||||
| Course Coordinator | - | |||||
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| Course Objectives | This course will give an introduction to radiation and particle detectors, and their use in experimental physics and in different application areas. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | This course covers the topics of basic physical processes for the detection of radiation and particles, the principle and characteristics of different detector types, detection systems in atomic, nuclear and particle physics, quantum optics as well as in medicine, accelerator physics and other fields, signal processing, measurement methodology and performance metrics. |
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| Core Courses | |
| Major Area Courses | X | |
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| Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses |
| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Interactions of particles with matter | Claus Grupen and Boris Shwartz, Particle Detectors, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Chapter 1, 1-31. ISBN: 9780511534966 |
| 2 | Interactions of radiation with matter | Claus Grupen and Boris Shwartz, Particle Detectors, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Chapter 1, 31-51. ISBN: 9780511534966 |
| 3 | Characteristic properties of detectors | Claus Grupen and Boris Shwartz, Particle Detectors, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Chapter 2, 56-69. ISBN: 9780511534966 |
| 4 | Main physical phenomena used for particle detection and basic counter types | Claus Grupen and Boris Shwartz, Particle Detectors, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Chapter 5, 90-122. ISBN: 9780511534966 |
| 5 | Main physical phenomena used for particle detection and basic counter types | Claus Grupen and Boris Shwartz, Particle Detectors, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Chapter 5, 122-151. ISBN: 9780511534966 |
| 6 | Track detectors | Claus Grupen and Boris Shwartz, Particle Detectors, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Chapter 7, 186-223. ISBN: 9780511534966 |
| 7 | Calorimetry, Midterm exam 1 | Claus Grupen and Boris Shwartz, Particle Detectors, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Chapter 8, 230-267. ISBN: 9780511534966 |
| 8 | Particle identification | Claus Grupen and Boris Shwartz, Particle Detectors, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Chapter 9, 273-302. ISBN: 9780511534966 |
| 9 | Neutrino detectors | Claus Grupen and Boris Shwartz, Particle Detectors, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Chapter 10, 307-324. ISBN: 9780511534966 |
| 10 | Momentum measurement and muon detection | Claus Grupen and Boris Shwartz, Particle Detectors, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Chapter 11, 327-344. ISBN: 9780511534966 |
| 11 | Example of a general-purpose detector: ATLAS | ATLAS web sitesi: https://atlas.cern/ |
| 12 | Data analysis, Midterm exam 2 | Claus Grupen and Boris Shwartz, Particle Detectors, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Chapter 15, 436-452. ISBN: 9780511534966 |
| 13 | Data analysis | Claus Grupen and Boris Shwartz, Particle Detectors, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Chapter 15, 452-462. ISBN: 9780511534966 |
| 14 | Applications of particle detectors outside particle physics | Claus Grupen and Boris Shwartz, Particle Detectors, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Chapter 16, 466-503. ISBN: 9780511534966 |
| 15 | Semester Review | |
| 16 | Final Exam |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | Claus Grupen and Boris Shwartz, Particle Detectors, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2008). ISBN: 9780511534966 |
| Suggested Readings/Materials | Christian W.Fabjan and James E.Pilcher, Instrumentation in Elementary Particle Physics (World Scientific,1988). ISBN: 9789971505851 |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | 1 | 10 |
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | ||
| Presentation / Jury | ||
| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | 2 | 40 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 50 |
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 3 | 50 |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 50 |
| Total |
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 2 | 32 |
| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 2 | |
| Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 2 | 28 |
| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
| Portfolio | |||
| Homework / Assignments | |||
| Presentation / Jury | |||
| Project | |||
| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | 2 | 17 | |
| Final Exams | 1 | 24 | |
| Total | 150 |
| # | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | To be able master and use fundamental phenomenological and applied physical laws and applications, | X | ||||
| 2 | To be able to identify the problems, analyze them and produce solutions based on scientific method, | X | ||||
| 3 | To be able to collect necessary knowledge, able to model and self-improve in almost any area where physics is applicable and able to criticize and reestablish his/her developed models and solutions, | X | ||||
| 4 | To be able to communicate his/her theoretical and technical knowledge both in detail to the experts and in a simple and understandable manner to the non-experts comfortably, | |||||
| 5 | To be familiar with software used in area of physics extensively and able to actively use at least one of the advanced level programs in European Computer Usage License, | |||||
| 6 | To be able to develop and apply projects in accordance with sensitivities of society and behave according to societies, scientific and ethical values in every stage of the project that he/she is part in, | |||||
| 7 | To be able to evaluate every all stages effectively bestowed with universal knowledge and consciousness and has the necessary consciousness in the subject of quality governance, | |||||
| 8 | To be able to master abstract ideas, to be able to connect with concreate events and carry out solutions, devising experiments and collecting data, to be able to analyze and comment the results, | X | ||||
| 9 | To be able to refresh his/her gained knowledge and capabilities lifelong, have the consciousness to learn in his/her whole life, | |||||
| 10 | To be able to conduct a study both solo and in a group, to be effective actively in every all stages of independent study, join in decision making stage, able to plan and conduct using time effectively. | |||||
| 11 | To be able to collect data in the areas of Physics and communicate with colleagues in a foreign language ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1). | |||||
| 12 | To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently | |||||
| 13 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. | |||||
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