The lecture series presents an overview of the physical principles and basic techniques of particle detection, applied to current and future high energy physics experiments. Illustrating examples, chosen mainly from the field of collider experiments, demonstrate the performance and limitations of the various techniques.

Main topics of the series are: interaction of particles and photons with matter; particle tracking with gaseous and solid state devices, including a discussion of radiation damage and strategies for improved radiation hardness; scintillation and photon detection; electromagnetic and hadronic calorimetry; particle identification using specific energy loss dE/dx, time of flight, Cherenkov light and transition radiation.

Lecture 1. Introduction - C. Joram and L. Ropelewski
Lecture 2. Tracking - L. Ropelewski and M. Moll
Lecture 3. Scintillation and Photodetection - C. D'Ambrosio and T. Gys
Lecture 4. Calorimetry - C. Joram
Lecture 5. Particle identification and Detector Systems - C. Joram and C. D'Ambrosio

Lecture notes are available at: http://cern.ch/ph-dep-dt2/lectures_PD_2005.htm