2017 CMS-Caltech-CERN Summer Students

Projects

Instrumentation

Silviu-Marian Udrescu, CERN, "Detailed simulation of planar semiconductor sensors for precision timing" with Adi, Si and Cristian

Planar semiconductor sensors are used for precision timing detectors in high energy physics. In calorimetric applications the sensors are exposed to a shower of ionizing radiation induced by a high energetic primary particle. The goal of the project is to perform simulation studies of the shower interactic with the sensor to get a precise understanding of the energy deposited in the sensor material. Different sensor materials such as Silicon, Silicon-Germanium and Cadmium-Tellurid will be studied as well as different sensor geometries exposed to different parts of the particle shower. The simulations are performed with the GEANT simulation package either in an embedded application derived from CMS software or in a standalone application.

Vitória Barim Pacela, CERN, LCD particle ID and regression with Amir, Maurizio and JR