How do wire-based detectors compare to resistive-plate chambers? How well do micropattern gaseous detectors perform? Which gas mixtures optimise operation? How will detectors face the challenges of future more powerful accelerators?
Thirty-two students attended the first DRD1 Gaseous Detectors School at CERN last November. The EP-DT Gas Detectors Development (GDD) lab hosted academic lectures and varied hands-on laboratory exercises. Students assembled their own detectors, learnt about their operating characteristics and explored radiation-imaging methods with state-of-the-art readout approaches – all under the instruction of more than 40 distinguished lecturers and tutors, including renowned scientists, pioneers of innovative technologies and emerging experts.
DRD1 is a new worldwide collaborative framework of more than 170 institutes focused on R&D for gaseous detectors. The collaboration focuses on knowledge sharing and scientific exchange, in addition to the development of novel gaseous detector technologies to address the needs of future experiments. This instrumentation school, initiated in DRD1’s first year, marks the start of a series of regular training events for young researchers that will also serve to exchange ideas between research groups and encourage collaboration.
The school will take place annually, with future editions hosted at different DRD1 member institutes to reach students from a number of regions and communities.
