13th Beam Telescopes and Test Beams Workshop

Session

Beamlines for Schools

21 May 2025, 12:10

Conveners

Beamlines for Schools

• Jan-Hendrik Arling (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))

53. The Beamline for Schools Competition (BL4S)

Dr Jorge Andres Villa Velez

21/05/2025, 12:10

Talk

Beamline for Schools (BL4S) is a physics competition for high school students from all around the world organised at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, in Geneva, Switzerland, and DESY, the German Electron Synchrotron, in Hamburg, Germany. Teams of high school students can propose an experiment that they want to perform at a beamline, that is, a part of a particle accelerator....

56. Team SAKURA particles - Development and Evaluation of a Two-Dimensional Detector

Team Sakura Particles

21/05/2025, 12:20

Talk

Conventional muography detectors are often expensive and not accessible for use by high school students. In this study, we developed a low-cost two-dimensional detector, “SAKURA,” for muography applications, with a total cost of approximately 100,000 JPY. A performance evaluation was conducted at CERN, where we quantitatively assessed the spatial resolution of SAKURA by comparing its output...

54. Team MAVERICKS - Calibration of a SiPM-on-Tile muon calorimeter for high-altitude ballooning applications

Team MAVERICKS

21/05/2025, 12:40

Talk

This presentation explores the feasibility of muon calorimetry using scintillation detectors based on experiments conducted in September 2024 at CERN’s T10 beamline. As one of the winning teams of the 2024 Beamline for Schools competition, we investigated how organic scintillators of varying thicknesses and different readout configurations respond to muons of various energies. Our setup also...

55. Team SPEEDers - Smith-Purcell Effect Emission Determination (SPEED)

Team SPEEDers

21/05/2025, 13:00

Talk

Smith-Purcell radiation (SPR) is a type of radiation emitted by electrons passing closely parallel to a conductive periodic surface, with potential applications in non-invasive longitudinal beam diagnostics. Selected as part of the 2025 Beamline For Schools competition, our team conducted an experiment at the DESY-II test beam facility to measure SPR in the near IR to visible electromagnetic...