Physics for Particle Detectors and Particle Detectors for Physics

Timing Performance of Semiconductor Detectors with Internal Gain and Constraints on High-Scale Interactions of the Higgs Boson

Philipp Windischhofer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XIV, 235 Seiten

2024 | 2023
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-39057-9 (ISBN)

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Experimental particle physics is a science of many scales. A large number of physical processes spanning energies from meV to TeV must be understood for modern collider experiments to be designed, built, and conducted successfully. This thesis contributes to the understanding of phenomena across this entire dynamic range. The first half of this document studies aspects of low-energy physics that govern the operation of particle detectors, limit their performance, and guide the development of novel instrumentation. To formalise these aspects, classical electrodynamics is used to derive a general description of the formation of electrical signals in detectors, and ideas from quantum mechanics are applied to the study of charge avalanche amplification in semiconductors. These results lead to a comprehensive analytical characterisation of the time resolution and the efficiency of single-photon avalanche diodes, and isolate the most important design variables. They also reveal the applicability of these devices in precision timing detectors for charged particles, which is experimentally verified in a high-energy hadron beam. Large detector systems at hadron colliders probe fundamental physics at the energy frontier. In the second half, data collected with the ATLAS detector during Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider are used to measure the cross-section for the production of a Higgs boson together with an electroweak boson as a function of the kinematic scale of the process. This measurement provides the finest granularity available to date for this process. It is highly informative of the structure of interactions beyond the direct kinematic reach of the experiment, and new limits are set on the couplings of such interactions within an effective field theory.

Philipp Windischhofer is a particle physicist and member of the ATLAS Collaboration at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland. A main focus of his work concerns the experimental investigation of the Higgs boson, the only spin-zero particle thus far observed in nature. He contributes to this program through the analysis of collider data and the development of new data analysis techniques. He is also heavily involved in the study and development of particle detectors. Together with his collaborators, he derives first-principles descriptions of the mechanisms underlying these instruments, thereby pinning down their ultimate performance limits and leading the way towards novel applications of existing technologies. Currently, Philipp is developing a fast numerical code for the simulation of radio-wave emissions from ultra-high energy particles reaching Earth from outer space. He completed his doctoral research at the University of Oxford in 2022, and is now working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago (USA).

Introduction.- The Formation of Electrical Signals in Particle Detectors.- The Statistics of Electron-hole Avalanches in Semiconductors.- Time Resolution and Efficiency of Single-photon Avalanche Diodes.- In-beam Performance of Single-photon Avalanche Diodes.

Erscheinungsdatum	06.09.2024
Reihe/Serie	Springer Theses
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 235 p. 121 illus., 87 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	388 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Hochenergiephysik / Teilchenphysik
Schlagworte	ATLAS Experiment • differential cross-section • effective field theory • Higgs plus electroweak boson • physics of particle detection • precision timing detectors • Ramo Shockley theorem • silicon detectors • single-photon avalanche diode • SPAD
ISBN-10	3-031-39057-1 / 3031390571
ISBN-13	978-3-031-39057-9 / 9783031390579
Zustand	Neuware