Instrumentation Physics Group

Our Mission: To optimise detector choices and design for Science Technology department projects.

Team:

Group Leader: Nigel Hessey

Deputy: Beatrice Franke

Analogue electronics: Leonid Kurchaninov

Calculations and simulation: Aleksey Sher

Tools for detector optimisation

We have available GEANT4 for simulating particle trajectories in magnetic fields and through detectors; Garfield++ for studying gaseous detectors; and finite element modelling codes available for electromagnetic field studies.