HEP Outreach, upd. 2017, RM
RICH and PIXEL Detectors for the BTEV Experiment
HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
undergraduate research projects
current project
Levon Vogelsang
Syracuse University
Levon
worked
on
electronics
R&D
during
the
Summer
of
2005.
He
worked
on
the
high-sensitivity
readout
electronics
for
MAPMT
photon
detectors,
originally
designed
for
the
RICH
Detector
of
the
BTEV
Experiment
at
Fermi
National
Accelerator
Laboratory.
He
studied
the
factors
that
influence
the
performance
of
this
new
readout,
including
the
changes
in
the
timing
and
gain
properties
of
the
analog
component
induced
by
changes in bias currents and voltages, as well as the factors that produce a maximum linearity range for the discriminator response.
Levon
got
practical
experience
using
the
kind
of
electronics
he
studied
in
his
undergraduate
Modern
Instrumentation
Course.
You
can
read
about
his work in his Summer Report. He worked in our lab under the supervision of Marina Artuso.
Levon
graduated
from
the
SU
Physics
Program,
and
has
gone
on
to
graduate
school
in
Physics
at
Syracuse
University,
studying
reconstruction
methods of SPECT images.
The
BTeV
experiment
was
designed
to
study
beauty
and
charm
physics
at
the
Fermilab
Tevatron
collider.
Its
goals
were
to
make
an
exhaustive
search
for
new
physics
to
challenge
the
Standard
Model
and
make
precise
measurements of the SM parameters.
The
BTeV
collaboration
was
a
group
of
nearly
200
physicists
drawn
from
more
than
30
universities
and
physics
institutes
around
the
world.
By
one
estimate,
It
spent
about
100
man-years
on
research,
design
and
development
of
the
techniques
and
detector
components
for
the
experiment.
The
BTeV
experiment
was
terminated
prior
to
construction.
Read on…
Gustavo Kertzscher
Syracuse University
Gustavo
worked
on
the
BTEV
Pixel
Detector
during
the
Summers
of
2003
through
2005.
This
detector
was
to
be
a
major
part
of
the
BTEV
Experiment
at
Fermi
National
Accelerator
Laboratory.
He
characterized
the
behavior
of
several
test
structures
embedded
in
a
new
Silicon
wafer
with
the
p-spray
pixel
prototypes
that
will
be
used
in
the
upcoming
Fermilab
beam
test.
He
measured
I-V
curves
for
a
variety
of
test
diodes
and
for
a
gate-controlled
diode.
This
was
tricky,
since
there
were
a
number
of
noise
studies
needed
to
figure
out
exactly
how
to
to
measure
currents
at the level of a few pA. He also constructed a dark box for use in laser calibration of these wafers.
Gustavo
got
exposed
to
a
large
number
of
different
aspects
of
research,
and
got
a
lot
of
hands-on
experience.
He
helped
to
build
a
Cosmic
Ray
Telescope,
using
scintillation
counters
and
fast-pulse
instrumentation.
He
built
a
single
photon
light
source
as
a
part
of
his
Honors
Thesis
at
Syracuse
University.
This
work
was
partially
funded
by
the
Renee
Crown
Honors
Program
of
Syracuse
University.
He
worked
in
our
lab
under
the
supervision of Marina Artuso.
Gustavo
graduated
with
Honors
from
the
Engineering
Physics
Program
at
SU,
and
has
gone
on
to
graduate
school
in
Physics
at
McGill
University.
His 2009 thesis was on the search for charged Higgs bosons at the DØ experiment at Fermilab.
Jairo Velasco
Syracuse University
Jairo
worked
on
the
BTEV
RICH
Detector
during
the
Summer
of
2003.
This
detector
was
intended
to
be
a
major
component
of
the
BTEV
Experiment
at
the
Fermi
National
Accelerator
Laboratory,
and
will
be
built
by
the
Syracuse
University
HEP
Group.
He
worked
on
the
R&D
for
the
novel
photon
detectors
that
we
plan
to
employ
in
the
RICH,
and
he
made
very
sensitive
measurements
detecting
single
photons
(single
quanta
of
light) emitted from a LED (light-emitting diode).
Jairo
got
a
lot
of
hardware
experience
this
summer,
learning
about
how
detectors
work
and
how
to
read
them
out
using
sophisticated
electronics,
digital
oscilloscopes,
and
other
advanced
laboratory
equipment.
You
can
read
about
his
work
in
the
presentation
of
his
work
made
at
the
end
of
the summer.
Jairo was a sophomore in the SU Physics Department when he worked in our lab under the supervision of Steve Blusk.
Brian Gantz
Syracuse University
Brian
spent
Summer
2003
completing
work
on
his
Engineering
Physics
Thesis.
His
final
project
involved
calibration
and
monitoring
of
the
performance
of
the
FPIX0
chip,
the
first
iteration
of
the
readout
for
BTEV
Pixel
Detector,
which
includes
an
analog
output.
This
was
to
be
used
in
the
upcoming
beam
test
to
study
charge
sharing
properties
of
different
pixel
sensors.
You
can
ask
him
about
his
experience
working
with
our
group. Brian has just received his B.S. in the Engineering Physics Program at SU, and worked in our lab under the supervision of Marina Artuso.
Previously,
Brian
worked
on
the
BTEV
Pixel
Project
during
the
Summers
of
2000
and
2001.
He
studied
the
effect
of
the
saturation
at
high
fields
of
the
electron
mobility
and
its
temperature
dependence
on
the
properties
of
the
silicon
pixel
sensors
that
were
to
be
used
in
the
BTEV
Experiment
at
Fermilab.
He
refined
the
simulation
program
developed
by
the
Syracuse
group
(hep-ex/0007054).
In
addition,
he
helped
in
setting
up
the
pixel
sensor
laboratory
that
will
perform
some
key
studies
on
the
basic
properties
of
the
pixel
detectors
being
developed
for
BTeV.
Brian
very
enthusiastically
learned
a
lot
of
interesting
and
practical
things
about
the
physics
of
semiconductors,
which
is
very
good
experience
for
electrical
engineers. You can read about his work in his REU Report. He worked in our lab at SU under the supervision of Marina Artuso.
Brian has gone on to graduate school in Physics at Syracuse University.
Narupon "Tor" Chattrapiban
Syracuse University
Tor
worked
on
the
BTEV
Experiment
during
the
Spring
and
Summer
of
2000.
He
made
very
interesting
measurements
of
the
optical
transmission
of
a
new
kind
of
material
called
"silica
aerogel".
This
is
a
material
that
we
planned
to
use
as
a
Cherenkov
radiator
in
the
BTEV
RICH
Detector
at
Fermilab.
His
work
was
very
valuable
in
ascertaining
the
bulk
and
surface
optical
properties
of
aerogel,
information
which
is
critical
for
us
to
understand.
Tor
gained
experience
in
programming
in
the
widely-used
graphical
language
LabVIEW,
and
investigated
phenomena
which
were
complementary
to
classes
he
had
taken
and
so
was
very
interesting
for
him.
(He
also
learned
a
useful
lesson
not
to
trust
everything
on
the
Web.)
From
this
work,
he
produced
a
very
nice
Undergraduate
Thesis.
You
can
read
all
about
his
work
in
excerpts
from
his
Undergraduate
Thesis,
as
well as from his Project Presentation. Tor worked in our lab at SU under the supervision of Ray Mountain and Sheldon Stone.
Previously,
Tor
also
worked
during
the
Summer
of
1999,
characterizing
some
properties
of
the
readout
electronics
used
in
the
CLEO-III
RICH
Detector
with
Marina
Artuso.
He
presented
this
work
during
the
conference
"A
Celebration
of
Undergraduate
Discovery"
that
took
place
at
Syracuse on April 29, 2000.
Tor went on to graduate school in Physics at the University of Maryland.
Gregory Brons
Syracuse University
Greg
worked
on
the
BTEV
Pixel
Project
during
the
Spring
of
2000,
helping
to
set
up
the
laboratory
system
to
perform
precision
I-V
measurements
in
semiconductor
detectors.
He
studied
several
test
structures
to
determine
the
breakdown
and
punch-through
properties
of
different
silicon
pixel
detector
and
guard
ring
geometries.
His
work
is
documented
in
his
Research
Thesis.
Greg
worked
in
our
lab
as
an
Independent
Study
Course under the supervision of Marina Artuso.
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HEP Outreach, upd. 2017, RM
RICH Detector for the BTEV Experiment
HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
undergraduate research projects
current project
The
BTeV
experiment
was
designed
to
study
beauty
and
charm
physics
at
the
Fermilab
Tevatron
collider.
Its
goals
were
to
make
an
exhaustive
search
for
new
physics
to
challenge
the
Standard
Model
and
make
precise measurements of the SM parameters.
The
BTeV
collaboration
was
a
group
of
nearly
200
physicists
drawn
from
more
than
30
universities
and
physics
institutes
around
the
world.
By
one
estimate,
It
spent
about
100
man-years
on
research,
design
and
development
of
the
techniques
and
detector
components
for
the
experiment.
The
BTeV
experiment
was terminated prior to construction.
Read on…
Gustavo Kertzscher
Syracuse University
Gustavo
worked
on
the
BTEV
Pixel
Detector
during
the
Summers
of
2003
through
2005.
This
detector
was
to
be
a
major
part
of
the
BTEV
Experiment
at
Fermi
National
Accelerator
Laboratory.
He
characterized
the
behavior
of
several
test
structures
embedded
in
a
new
Silicon
wafer
with
the
p-spray
pixel
prototypes
that
will
be
used
in
the
upcoming
Fermilab
beam
test.
He
measured
I-V
curves
for
a
variety
of
test
diodes
and
for
a
gate-controlled
diode.
This
was
tricky,
since
there
were
a
number
of
noise
studies
needed
to
figure
out
exactly
how
to
to
measure
currents
at
the
level
of
a
few
pA.
He
also
constructed
a
dark
box
for
use
in
laser
calibration
of these wafers.
Gustavo
got
exposed
to
a
large
number
of
different
aspects
of
research,
and
got
a
lot
of
hands-on
experience.
He
helped
to
build
a
Cosmic
Ray
Telescope,
using
scintillation
counters
and
fast-pulse
instrumentation.
He
built
a
single
photon
light
source
as
a
part
of
his
Honors
Thesis
at
Syracuse
University.
This
work
was
partially
funded
by
the
Renee
Crown
Honors
Program
of
Syracuse
University.
He
worked
in
our
lab
under
the supervision of Marina Artuso.
Gustavo
graduated
with
Honors
from
the
Engineering
Physics
Program
at
SU,
and
has
gone
on
to
graduate
school
in
Physics
at
McGill
University.
His
2009
thesis
was
on
the
search
for
charged
Higgs
bosons
at
the
DØ
experiment
at
Fermilab.
Brian Gantz
Syracuse University
Brian
spent
Summer
2003
completing
work
on
his
Engineering
Physics
Thesis.
His
final
project
involved
calibration
and
monitoring
of
the
performance
of
the
FPIX0
chip,
the
first
iteration
of
the
readout
for
BTEV
Pixel
Detector,
which
includes
an
analog
output.
This
was
to
be
used
in
the
upcoming
beam
test
to
study
charge
sharing
properties
of
different
pixel
sensors.
You
can
ask
him
about
his
experience
working
with
our
group.
Brian
has
just
received
his
B.S.
in
the
Engineering
Physics
Program
at
SU,
and
worked
in
our
lab
under
the
supervision
of
Marina
Artuso.
Previously,
Brian
worked
on
the
BTEV
Pixel
Project
during
the
Summers
of
2000
and
2001.
He
studied
the
effect
of
the
saturation
at
high
fields
of
the
electron
mobility
and
its
temperature
dependence
on
the
properties
of
the
silicon
pixel
sensors
that
were
to
be
used
in
the
BTEV
Experiment
at
Fermilab.
He
refined
the
simulation
program
developed
by
the
Syracuse
group
(hep-ex/0007054).
In
addition,
he
helped
in
setting
up
the
pixel
sensor
laboratory
that
will
perform
some
key
studies
on
the
basic
properties
of
the
pixel
detectors
being
developed
for
BTeV.
Brian
very
enthusiastically
learned
a
lot
of
interesting
and
practical
things
about
the
physics
of
semiconductors,
which
is
very
good
experience
for
electrical
engineers.
You
can
read
about
his
work
in
his
REU
Report.
He
worked
in
our
lab
at
SU
under
the
supervision
of
Marina
Artuso.
Brian
has
gone
on
to
graduate
school
in
Physics
at Syracuse University.
Levon Vogelsang
Syracuse University
Levon
worked
on
electronics
R&D
during
the
Summer
of
2005.
He
worked
on
the
high-
sensitivity
readout
electronics
for
MAPMT
photon
detectors,
originally
designed
for
the
RICH
Detector
of
the
BTEV
Experiment
at
Fermi
National
Accelerator
Laboratory.
He
studied
the
factors
that
influence
the
performance
of
this
new
readout,
including
the
changes
in
the
timing
and
gain
properties
of
the
analog
component
induced
by
changes
in
bias
currents
and
voltages,
as
well
as
the
factors
that
produce
a
maximum
linearity range for the discriminator response.
Levon
got
practical
experience
using
the
kind
of
electronics
he
studied
in
his
undergraduate
Modern
Instrumentation
Course.
You
can
read
about
his
work
in
his
Summer
Report.
He
worked
in
our
lab
under
the
supervision
of
Marina
Artuso.
Levon
graduated
from
the
SU
Physics
Program,
and
has
gone
on
to
graduate
school
in
Physics
at
Syracuse
University,
studying
reconstruction
methods of SPECT images.
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