Description
Semiconductor detectors for particle tracking and vertex
finding have started to play an important role in High
Energy Physics roughly since the LEP era. Present
experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) or Tevatron
would be impossible with Silicon detectors around the
interaction point.
This lecture gives an introduction to the topic, starting
from the fundamental operating principles of semiconductor
detectors, and leading up to the detectors used in the
tracking systems of the LHC experiments. Applications of
detectors from particle physics in other fields are shown,
using the Medipix chip as an example.
Author
Ulrich Parzefall
(Fakultaet fuer Physik)
