Name: EDIT 2015
Start: 2015-10-19T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2015-10-29T23:00:00+01:00
Location: INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati

EDIT 2015

from Monday, 19 October 2015 (15:00) to Thursday, 29 October 2015 (23:00)

Monday, 19 October 2015

15:00

15:00 - 19:00
Room: T75 bldg n. 36 - INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati
Tuesday, 20 October 2015

08:30

08:30 - 09:00
Room: T75 - bldg. n.36
09:00 The discovery of Higgs Boson - Marumi Kado (LAL)
The discovery of Higgs Boson
- Marumi Kado (LAL)
09:00 - 10:00
abstract
10:00 High Energy Physics: the future, the challenges - michelangelo mangano (cern)
High Energy Physics: the future, the challenges
- michelangelo mangano (cern)
10:00 - 11:00
abstract
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 Calorimeters (lecture 1 and lecture 2) - Erika Garutti (DESY)
Calorimeters (lecture 1 and lecture 2)
- Erika Garutti (DESY)
11:30 - 12:30
The theoretical lectures on calorimeters will review the principle of Calorimetry and the main techniques used in present and future HEP experiments. A special emphasis will be given to highly granular calorimeters, which are the technology of choice for particle flow applications in HEP, but are also representative of the current R&D in the field of positron emission tomography. The following points will be addressed in the lectures: • Signal generating mechanisms • Signal detection options (with emphasis to the solutions presented in the laboratory courses, i.e. scintillator material coupled to a Si-based photodetector) • Sampling vs homogeneous calorimeters • The signal from sampling and longitudinally segmented calorimeters • Composition of a shower and its space/time evolution • Linearity and calibration for sampling and longitudinally segmented calorimeters • e/h and its impact on hadronic energy resolution, response function, signal linearity • Particle reconstruction and identification in a calorimeter • The particle flow concept • Calorimeters for medicine (a glimpse… )
12:30 Gas Detectors: detection and localisation of Photons with Gas Devices - Fabio Sauli (TERA)
Gas Detectors: detection and localisation of Photons with Gas Devices
- Fabio Sauli (TERA)
12:30 - 13:30
Covering the photon wavelength range from infrared to hard X-rays, the lecture will describe the basic processes leading to detection and localisation of single photons, providing selected examples of the gaseous devices developed and used for this purpose.
13:30 Lunch
Lunch
13:30 - 14:30

14:30

14:30 - 15:00
15:00
15:00 - 19:00
Contributions

15:00 Solid State Detectors Laboratory 1.1 - Catalina Oana Curceanu (LNF) Pasquale Di Nezza (LNF)

15:00 Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory 1.1 - Antonella Balerna (LNF)

15:00 Space characterization of satellite laser ranging payloads 1.1 - Alessandro Boni (LNF)

15:00 SiPMs readout and control with FPGA/SoC 1.1 - Giulietto Felici (LNF)

15:00 Detectors for Calorimetry Laboratory 1.1 - Ivano Sarra (LNF) Stefano Miscetti (LNF)

15:00 Accelerator Laboratory 1.1 - Alessandro Gallo (LNF) Enrica Chiadroni (LNF)

15:00 Gaseous Detectors Laboratory 1.1 - Giovanni Bencivenni (LNF)

15:00 Trigger and Data Acquisition Laboratory 1.1 - Enrico Pasqualucci (ROMA1) Giovanni Mazzitelli (LNF)
19:00

19:00 - 20:00
Wednesday, 21 October 2015
09:00 Gas Detectors: problems and solutions with Gas Detectors - Fabio Sauli (TERA)
Gas Detectors: problems and solutions with Gas Detectors
- Fabio Sauli (TERA)
09:00 - 10:00
The lecture describes several problems (and some solutions) encountered with the use of gaseous devices in experimental physics and other fields, namely: multi-track separation, rate limitations and discharges, positive ions backflow and track distortions.
10:00 Trigger and DAQ: introduction to Data Acquisition - Niko Neufeld (CERN)
Trigger and DAQ: introduction to Data Acquisition
- Niko Neufeld (CERN)
10:00 - 11:00
Data Acquisition gets the data from the front-end detector electronics to mass-storage. In this lecture we will cover the most basic concepts of data acquisition and triggering. We will talk about concepts like buffering, dead-time, scalability. We will also introduce some important programming paradigms for DAQ and discuss some aspects of network-ed data acquisition systems.
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 Trigger and DAQ: introduction to Trigger Systems - Francesca Pastore (CERN)
Trigger and DAQ: introduction to Trigger Systems
- Francesca Pastore (CERN)
11:30 - 12:30
This lecture is mainly devoted to introduce the students to the main key concepts one may know to understand how the trigger systems in HEP experiments work. First we will describe the strong connections with the DAQ and the computing resources of an experiment, motivating the design of a trigger selection and providing the list of design parameters. The students will learn how to ensure good efficiency and effectively measure and monitor it. Many examples will be given, linked to current HEP experiments. In the second part of the lecture, the students will review different trigger architectures and learn how to build a trigger system and scale it with the increased requirements. We will understand the separation in levels, and the different advantages of synchronous and asynchronous systems. An overview will be given of the helpful technologies, more or less available on the market, together with examples of hardware and software selections of present or future experiments.
12:30 Lepton and Hadron Colliders - FRANK ZIMMERMANN (CERN)
Lepton and Hadron Colliders
- FRANK ZIMMERMANN (CERN)
12:30 - 13:30
Circular lepton and hadron colliders have been the mainstay of particle and much of nuclear physics research at both the energy and precision frontiers for a few decades. They look set to play this role for a few decades more. This lecture will look at the physics of how they work from the point of view of an experimental physicist (as imagined by an accelerator physicist Ö), working outwards from the collision point. The key differences between lepton and hadron colliders will be explained together with an introduction to key concepts and language from accelerator physics. Some of the physical phenomena limiting the energy and luminosity that can be delivered will be illustrated with examples from the LHC and other colliders.
13:30 Lunch
Lunch
13:30 - 15:00
15:00
15:00 - 19:00
Contributions

15:00 Gaseous Detectors Laboratory 1.2

15:00 Space characterization of satellite laser ranging payloads 1.2

15:00 Accelerator Laboratory 1.2

15:00 Detectors for Calorimetry Laboratory 1.2

15:00 Solid State Detectors Laboratory 1.2

15:00 SiPMs readout and control with FPGA/SoC 1.2

15:00 Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory 1.2 - Antonella Balerna (LNF)

15:00 Trigger and Data Acquisition Laboratory 1.2
Thursday, 22 October 2015
09:00 Neutrino Physics and Detectors - Ken Long (Imperial College London)
Neutrino Physics and Detectors
- Ken Long (Imperial College London)
09:00 - 10:00
The study of the neutrino is the study of physics beyond the Standard Model. We now know that the neutrinos have mass and that neutrino mixing occurs causing neutrino flavour to oscillate as neutrinos propagate through space and time. Further, some measurements can be interpreted as hints for new particles known as sterile neutrinos. The measured values of the mixing parameters make it possible that the matter-antimatter (CP) symmetry may be violated through the mixing process. The consequences of observing CP-invariance violation in neutrinos would be profound. To discover CP-invariance violation will require measurements of exquisite precision. After a brief historical introduction I will give an overview of the phenomenology of neutrino oscillations and summarise our present understanding of the phenomenon. The race is on to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy, to find evidence for CP-invariance violation and to understand whether there are undiscovered neutrino species, or forces, beyond those of the Standard Model. I will describe the experimental programme that is underway and that which is planned. To understand the physics that gives rise to the neutrino’s unique properties requires measurements of exquisite precision. I will describe the novel detectors that are being developed and the developments in accelerator technique that are required to allow an understanding of the neutrino—and of the physics of flavour—to be developed.
10:00 Laser Ranging Space Characterization: an introduction to Satellite Laser Ranging - John J. Degnan (Sigma Space Corporation)
Laser Ranging Space Characterization: an introduction to Satellite Laser Ranging
- John J. Degnan (Sigma Space Corporation)
10:00 - 11:00
In Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR), a short laser pulse is transmitted from a ground station to an orbiting satellite and reflected back to the station, which measures the roundtrip time of flight and hence the station-to-satellite range. The first laser returns from an artificial satellite were recorded by a NASA team at Goddard Space Flight Center on 29 October 1964.The satellite, Beacon Explorer 22B, was equipped with a Laser Retroreflector Array (LRA), designed to return a sufficient number of laser photons to their point of origin. In July 1969, the Apollo 11 astronauts placed the first LRA on the surface of the Moon; the number of lunar LRAs was later increased to 5 by Apollo 14 and 15 and two unmanned Soviet Lunakhod missions. Over the intervening decades, the ranging precision has improved from a few meters to a few mm and the number of stations in the global network has increased to about 40. Today, the International Laser Ranging Service (ILRS), formed in 1998, coordinates the tracking operations and data analysis activities of approximately 30 participating countries. SLR is one of four techniques currently in wide use by the space geodetic community; the others are Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), Global Navigation Satellite Systems (e.g. GPS) , and Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning by Satellite (DORIS). Since the Millennium, a few SLR stations have developed the ability to track satellites in daylight using low energy kHz lasers and single photon returns. This demonstrated capability to extract very low level signals from the solar background has opened the door to precise interplanetary ranging and time transfer through the use of laser transponders, with the promise of further contributions to lunar and solar system science, more precise relativity experiments, and improved lunar and planetary mission operations. A second spinoff of single photon SLR technology has been the development of airborne and spaceborne single photon laser altimeters and 3D imaging lidars, which have demonstrated unprecedented surface measurement rates up to 3.2 million pixels per second.
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 Calorimeters - Erika Garutti (DESY)
Calorimeters
- Erika Garutti (DESY)
11:30 - 12:30
12:30 Novel acceleration techniques for High Brightness Electron Beams - James Rosenzweig (UCLA)
Novel acceleration techniques for High Brightness Electron Beams
- James Rosenzweig (UCLA)
12:30 - 13:30
abstract
13:30 Lunch
Lunch
13:30 - 15:00
15:00
15:00 - 19:00
Contributions

15:00 Detectors for Calorimetry Laboratory 1.3

15:00 Accelerator Laboratory 1.3

15:00 Gaseous Detectors Laboratory 1.3

15:00 Trigger and Data Acquisition Laboratory 1.3

15:00 SiPMs readout and control with FPGA/SoC 1.3

15:00 Space characterization of satellite laser ranging payloads 1.3

15:00 Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory 1.3 - Antonella Balerna (LNF)

15:00 Solid State Detectors Laboratory 1.3
Friday, 23 October 2015
09:00 Electronics and Signal Processing: Front-End Electronics - Christophe de LA TAILLE (OMEGA CNRS/IN2P3 Ecole Polytechnique)
Electronics and Signal Processing: Front-End Electronics
- Christophe de LA TAILLE (OMEGA CNRS/IN2P3 Ecole Polytechnique)
09:00 - 11:00
The course will describe detector signal amplification and processing in particle physics detectors. Characteristics and performance of charge sensitive preamplifiers, speed and noise performance and pulse shaping for charge measurement. High speed and current sensitive architectures, discrimination and timing accuracy for time measurement.
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 Nuclear Physics: Nuclear Physics in the era of Radioactive Ion Beams - Nasser Kalantar (KVI)
Nuclear Physics: Nuclear Physics in the era of Radioactive Ion Beams
- Nasser Kalantar (KVI)
11:30 - 12:30
With the advent of radioactive ion beams, the study of nuclei has received a lot of renewed attention in the past two decades. Several facilities have been built or are being built for the investigation of various characteristics of nuclei under extreme neutron-to-proton ratios. Substantial progress has been made in the last decades in the understanding of stable nuclei and those close to the line of stability. However, the limits of nuclear stability should still be discovered as one moves towards the medium and heavy nuclei, and the underlying forces governing these complicated many-body systems need to be better understood. Some of the nuclear characteristics are well described by the single-particle picture of nuclei and some others by the collective motions of nucleons inside the nuclei. In this lecture, a short overview of some open questions in nuclear physics will be given along with long-range plans of the community on how to move forward.
12:30 Laser Ranging Space Characterization: contributions of Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) to modern science - John J. Degnan (Sigma Space Corporation)
Laser Ranging Space Characterization: contributions of Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) to modern science
- John J. Degnan (Sigma Space Corporation)
12:30 - 13:30
SLR currently defines the Earth Scale Factor (GM) and the origin of the International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF), i.e. the Earth’s center of mass. Following the launch of the first geodetic satellites in the 1970s, SLR contributed heavily to our early modeling of the Earth’s gravity field, global tectonic plate motion, and regional crustal deformation near plate boundaries. Between VLBI sessions, SLR was also used to interpolate measurements of the Earth Orientation Parameters (EOP), which define the spin axis of the Earth and its time-dependent orientation and speed of rotation within the Celestial Reference Frame. More recently, SLR has been used to transfer time between atomic clocks, located on different continents, at the 50 picosecond level . The Precise Orbit Determination (POD) capability of SLR has also supported a diverse array of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), such as GPS, and international remote sensing satellites. For example, the combination of SLR with spaceborne microwave altimetry has provided spatially resolved maps of: global ocean currents and their velocities, mean sea level (MSL) rise, and even deep sea floor topography. With the advent of spaceborne laser altimeters, which derive much of their technology from the SLR program, high resolution topographic maps of the Earth, Moon, Mars, Mercury, and several asteroids have been obtained. In parallel, Lunar Laser Ranging has made important contributions to Lunar Physics, the Solar System Reference Frame, and General Relativity/Fundamental Physics.
13:30 Lunch
Lunch
13:30 - 15:00
15:00
15:00 - 19:00
Contributions

15:00 Solid State Detectors Laboratory 1.4

15:00 Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory 1.4 - Antonella Balerna (LNF)

15:00 Space characterization of satellite laser ranging payloads 1.4

15:00 SiPMs readout and control with FPGA/SoC 1.4

15:00 Trigger and Data Acquisition Laboratory 1.4

15:00 Gaseous Detectors Laboratory 1.4

15:00 Accelerator Laboratory 1.4

15:00 Detectors for Calorimetry Laboratory 1.4
19:00

19:00 - 22:00
Saturday, 24 October 2015

09:00

09:00 - 11:30
11:30 Welcome - Stefano Ragazzi (MIB) Alba Formicola (LNGS)
Welcome
- Stefano Ragazzi (MIB)
- Alba Formicola (LNGS)
11:30 - 11:45
11:45 Neutrino experiments at LNGS - Izabela Anna Kochanek (LNGS)
Neutrino experiments at LNGS
- Izabela Anna Kochanek (LNGS)
11:45 - 12:15
The study of neutrino properties is one of the main topics of the researches carried out at the LNGS. Borexino, OPERA and ICARUS experiments significantly contributed to the study of neutrinos exploiting different sources both natural or artificial. Beyond the standard model several anomalies could be interpreted as an indication of existence of sterile neutrino oscillations. In this talk an overview about present and future LNGS experimental activities, will be presented. An outlook of the world wide facilities will be introduced.
12:15 Neutrinoless double beta decay searches at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory - Lucia Canonica (LNGS)
Neutrinoless double beta decay searches at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory
- Lucia Canonica (LNGS)
12:15 - 12:45
One of the fundamental open questions in elementary particle physics is the value of the neutrino mass and its nature of Dirac or Majorana particle. Neutrinoless double beta decay is a key tool for investigating these neutrino properties and for finding answers to the open questions concerning mass hierarchy and mass scale ordering. In this contribution, an overview of the different experimental approaches to search for neutrinoless double beta decay will be given. Particular attention will be devoted to the current experiments that are being operated or under construction at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory. The next generation experiments, which aim to further improve the sensitivity on the neutrinoless double beta decay half life, will be also presented
12:45 Direct search for dark matter at Gran Sasso National Laboratories - Andrea MOLINARIO (LNGS)
Direct search for dark matter at Gran Sasso National Laboratories
- Andrea MOLINARIO (LNGS)
12:45 - 13:15
Astronomical and cosmological observations indicate that a large amount of the energy content of the Universe is made of dark matter, whose nature is still unknown. A worldwide experimental effort is ongoing to directly detect the interactions of the particles composing dark matter, so to be able to study their properties. Gran Sasso National Laboratories host a few experiments which make use of different detection techniques in order to search for dark matter particles. A review will be given of the various detectors and of their main results.
13:15 Lunch
Lunch
13:15 - 15:00

15:00

15:00 - 19:00
Sunday, 25 October 2015