Lecture: Astroparticle Physics and Detectors 2008

Mon Feb 18 Ereditato

Mon Feb 25 Ereditato

Mon March 3 Ereditato

Mon March 10 Ereditato

Mon March 17 res

Mon March 31 res

Mon April 7 Moser Introduction Astroparticle Physics experiments

Mon April 14 Manuel Weber KASKADE

Mon April 21 Marcel Zeller AUGER

Mon April 28 Simone Studer ICE CUBE - AMANDA

Mon May 5 Weber

Mon May 12 frei(Pfingsten)

Mon May 19 Weber

Mon May 26 Weber

Big Detectors for Neutrinos and Astroparticle Physics

• Super Kamiokande water tank cerenkov (atm )

• SNO water tank cerenkov (solar )

• ANTARES sea water cerenkov (upw )

• AMANDA, ICE CUBE ice cerenkov

• MAGIC ( HEGRA ) air cerenkov

• AUGER water cerenkov, fluorescence telescopes

• PAMELA space mission

• KASKADE plastic scint, streamer tubes

KASKADE • links– http://www-ik.fzk.de/KASCADE_home_g.html

ICE CUBE - AMANDA

• links– http://icecube.umd.edu/– http://amanda.uci.edu/

AUGER • links– http://www.auger.de/– http://www.auger.org/features/shower_simulations.html

ANTARES • links– http://antares.in2p3.fr/– http://antares.in2p3.fr/Overview/detector.html– http://antares.in2p3.fr/Overview/performance.html

MAGIC (HEGRA)

• links– http://wwwmagic.mppmu.mpg.de/

elements needed to understand APP detectors

• interaction of particles with air and water (ice)– scintillation– cerenkov radiation

• photomultipliers– time measurement– energy measurement

• position sensitive chambers– MWPC– streamer tubes

• em and hadronic showers– radiation length, interaction length

• Lorentz transformation• EAS

– direction measurement– energy measurement– primary particle

books: W. R. Leo, Techniques for Particle Physics Experiments, Springer-Verlag, 1994

C. Grupen: Astroparticle Physics, Springer 2005

see also: Antonio‘s slides of APP lecture