Presentation of the instrument development activities at the particle physics group, SU

by Kerstin Jon-And (SU Fysikum), Per Olof Hulth (Particle Physics, SU)

Thursday 6 Mar 2003, 10:00 → 11:00 Europe/Stockholm

The Experimental Particle Physics group is involved in several large-scale experiments within the areas of accelerator-based research and astroparticle physics.

The research group participates in huge accelerator experiments at the high-energy frontier: both D0 at the Tevatron accelerator outside Chicago and ATLAS at the Large Hadron Collider, which is being built at CERN. The instrumentation of these experiments, driven by physics demands, will be briefly described. Emphasis will be given to those parts of the detectors, the silicon tracker of D0 and the hadron calorimeter and the first level trigger of ATLAS, to which the group has contributed.

The neutrino telescope AMANDA is running since year 2000 at the South Pole. It detects the emitted Chernkov light from neutrino induced interactions deep in the ice sheet. In total 677 photo multipliers have been deployed between 1200 and 2400 meters depth. A new telescope, IceCube, which will have an active volume of about 1 km**3 is expected to start construction in 04/05. The special demands of electronics etc. for this kind of detectors will be discussed.