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1st phone meeting on EDIT photodetection
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166-R-014 (CERN)
166-R-014
CERN
Description
Participants: Veronique Puill, Jerry Va'vra, Thierry Gys, Ariella Cattai, Christian Joram
Excused (holidays or sick): Nicoleta Dinu, Dieter Renker, Iouri Mousienko,
Rough Agenda
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- EDIT. Concept and foreseen implementation
- Photodetectors. Goals, methodology, scope (detector types), measurements
- Equipment: Available, contributed, needed
- First iteration on sharing of tasks (lectures, lab exercises, discussion sessions)
- Space (m2, equipment)
- next meeting(s)
- AOB
Short summary (CJ)
* Ariella summarized the essential features of the somewhat unconventional EDIT School.
The school will run over 2 full weeks, of which 8 days (9 - 18:30) are devoted to the topical courses (Si 1+2, gas, photo, scint, calo, elec 1 + 2). Days 1 and 10 are reserved for introductory lectures and a School wrap-up. The typical student will be on advanced PhD level, involved in physics analysis, with little experience in instrumentation. The students will be divided in subgroups of <10 students which will attend the 8 courses. --> We have to run the same photodetctor course on 8 days.
Given the partly marginal background of the students in instrumentation, references to books, lectures, scintific articles should be made available before the start of the School.
* Scope
There was agreement about the scope of the photodetection course, as it is currently sketched on the scintific programme page of the school (see link on indico page). Gaseous photodetectors are currently not covered. Possibly this could be covered by gas detector course (e.g. CsI coated GEM).
* Equipment list
The preliminary lists of equipment which could be provided by CERN, LAL and SLAC was discussed. (MA)PMT, HPD, MCP-PMT and SiPM are already relatively well covered. APD not yet covered at all. Thierry suggested that the use of a single channel HPD would be didacticllay interesting. Either to be purchased or possibly to be borrrowed from Bari (R. de Leo). Not to be forgotten: equipment from SLAC needs to run on 115 V.
* Lectures
Splitting the course in 1/3 theory and 2/3 practical exercises appears as a reasonable approach. The 2-3 hours of lectures could be further divided in shorter units and distributed over the day (e.g. introduction/overview, vacuum based detectors, solid state detectors). The various lectures will be shared among us. The same lecture could be given by different people on different days. Sharing and attribution of topics will be discussed in one of the next meetings.
* Space
An appropriate lab space (about 100m2) has been identified (17-1-025), which is located next to a meeting room (17-1-017). See 'Photos Rooms'. There is also a little coffee corner (rather ugly and dirty), equiped with a coffee automate. The lab needs to be cleaned up and some remainig machine tools to be removed. Ariella will check whether there is a possibility to repaint the coffee corner.
To 'decorate' the lab, scientific posters related to photodetectors (measurements, applications, etc.) are very welcome. They will also serve as illustrations for discussions with the students.
* Action list
- Jerry to provide details of his MCP-PMT set-up in order to see whether part of the equipment is available at CERN (minimize logistics effort).
- Dieter and Youri will be contacted by Christian and asked for equipment lists
- All: prepare concrete proposals for set-ups. A short description should include the goals, methods, an estimate of t he time needed to run it, how many students can participate. At a later stage, a more detailed description will be needed which can be handed out to the students.
* Next phone meeting
- Tuesday, 14 September, 17:00 (CEST). Alternative: Monday 13 September, same time.
* AOB -/-
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