COURSES

Goals

Objectives: - understanding the evolution of signal and noise in scintillation and solid-state detectors as well as cutting-edge approaches to related signal analysis, - analysis of detector signals in various real-life cases, - recognising analysis functional building blocks and their inter-dependencies, - rearranging analysis functional building blocks in a new functional manner, - predicting performance of new detection architectures and evaluate advantages and shortcomings. Competencies: - selecting signal acquisition and analysis method for a specific given problem and detector type, - constructing a working detector system from hardware and software components, - application of project-given technological, systemic, temporal and financial constraints in method development and detector system construction, - prediction of key quantitative performance metrics (resolutions, efficiency, etc.), - performing a demonstration data run on the fully assembled system, - evaluation of predicted performance metrics on basis of experimental data.

Curriculum

- Microscopic model of signal formation and evolution of noise in state-of-the-art scintillation and solid-state detectors, as well as future detection concepts. - Technology trends in scintillation and solid-state detector applications in life- and material-science applications of detectors. - The era of transition to direct digital sampling: opportunities and pitfalls. New strategies in managing the serial and parallel noise. Specifics of high count rate work. - Placement of current technology limitations in the scope of fundamental final limitations due to laws of nature. - Advanced individual study into a select real case from the student's research work, by comparison of several signal analysis approaches and proposal of new ones, prediction of behaviour, experimental evaluation.