2007 2008 ACADEMIC TRAINING PROGRAMME

LECTURE SERIES

21, 22, 23, 24, 25 April 2008

11:00 -12:00 – TH Auditorium – Bldg. 4-3-006

Fundamentals of Particle Detectors and Developments in Detector Technologies for future Experiments

Dr. Werner RIEGLER, CERN, Geneva

This lecture series will first review the elementary processes and techniques on which particle detectors are based. These must always be kept in mind when discussing the limits of existing technologies and motivations for novel developments. Using the examples of LHC detectors, the limits of state of the art detectors will be outlined and the current detector R&D trends for the LHC upgrade and other future experiments will be discussed. This discussion will include micropattern gas detectors, novel solid state detector technologies and trends in microelectronics.