ELEC-2005: Electronics in High Energy Physics

ELEC-2005 is a new course series on modern electronics, given by CERN physicists and engineers in the format of the successful ELEC-2002 course series, and within the framework of the 2005 Technical Training Programme.

This comprehensive course series is designed for people who are not electronics specialists, for example physicists, engineers and technicians working at or visiting the laboratory, who use or will use electronics in their present or future activities, in particular in the context of the LHC accelerator and experiments. ELEC-2005 will composed of four Terms throughout the year:

Winter Term: Introduction to electronics in HEP (January-February, 6 lectures)

Spring Term: Integrated circuits and VLSI technology for physics (March, 6 lectures)

Summer Term: System electronics for physics: Issues (May, 7 lectures)

Winter Term: Electronics applications in HEP experiments (November-December, 10 lectures)

Lectures within each Term will take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 10:00 to 12:30. The course will be in English, with questions and answers also possible in French, at a cost of 10.- CHF per person per lecture. Participation to any of the ELEC-2005 Terms is open: attendance to each Term is not a prerequisite to attend subsequent Terms. If you are interested in attending, please discuss with your supervisor and/or your DTO, and apply electronically via EDH. Participation to all sessions in a Term is strongly encouraged, to allow people profit at most from the course. Attendance will be recorded in the personal training records.

The Winter Term will start on January 18: lectures will cover an introduction to the basics of electronics, analogue signal processing of particle detector signals, analogue to digital conversion, time to digital conversion and data transmission, optical data links, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), printed circuit boards (PCBs) and hybrids.

More information, online registration to the Winter Term and detailed programme are available on the Technical Training web pages, accessible from http://www.cern.ch/TechnicalTraining. The complete programme of the Winter Term will be published on a next Weekly Bulletin.

Organiser: Davide Vitè / HR-PMD-ATT / 75141 Davide.Vite@cern.ch

ENSEIGNEMENT TECHNIQUE
TECHNICAL TRAINING
Monique Duval 74924
technical.training@cern.ch

by Monique Duval