Specialized laboratories 2

Lecturer:

Jan Čepila (gar.)

Tutor:

Jan Čepila (gar.)

Supervisor:

Department of Physics

Synopsis:

Physics measurement focused on instrumental techniques that are mainly used in physics and technical professions. Topics of each parts are chosen so that students can familiarize with advanced pats of experimental physics and metrology.

Requirements:

Experimental physics 1,2,3, Experimental laboratory 1,2

Syllabus of lectures:

Syllabus of tutorials:

1.Amplifiers, timing discriminators

2. Signal shaping, logical discriminators

3. Coincidence measurement, triggering

4. Data acquisition systems, multichannel analyzers, calibration

5. alfa-spectroscopy, semiconductor detectors

6. gama-spectroscopy, scintillation detectors

Study Objective:

Knowledge:

Experimental and analytic methods, different experimental procedures

Abilities:

Application of the mentioned methods on specific physical experiments, processing and evaluation of results

Study materials:

Key references:

[1] T. Ferbel: Experimental Techniques in High-Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics, World Scientific Pub, 1992

Recommended references:

[2] J. H. Moore et al.: Building Scientific Apparatus , Cambridge press 2009

Media and tools:

department laboratory

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

The course is a part of the following study plans: