Fyzikální ústav Akademie věd ČR

Department of Detector Development and Data Processing

Activities


  • Investigation of basic properties of matter in the framework of international particle physics experiments
  • Development of new detectors
  • Data processing

Investigation of basic properties of matter in the framework of international particle physics experiments

The ATLAS experiment at the LHC collider at CERN – we have been collaborating for a long time on the development and operation of the TILECAL hadron calorimeter and the processing of experiment results.

The experiment at the TEVATRON proton-antiproton collider in the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, IL, USA. We have contributed to the experiment design and participate in data processing.

The H1 experiment at the HERA electron-proton collider in the DESY laboratory in Hamburg, Germany. The data taking has been finished, data processing continues. We study the structure of protons and photons, jet physics and diffraction physics.

The DIRAC experiment at CERN studies the space-time development of interactions through the correlations of pion pairs.

Development of new detectors

We participate in the CALICE project, which aims at developing calorimeters for the future ILC accelerator, in the area of calibration and monitoring systems.

We cooperate with other departments of the Division in the development of detectors and electronic circuitry for new projects.

We develop detector components, such as space-efficient radiation-resistant low-voltage power supplies.

Data processing

We have founded the Regional Computing Center for Particle Physics, which is located in the Institute of Physics. The Center is run by a specialized Department of Networking and Communication Systems of our Institute. We participate in the LCG project, run by CERN, whose goal is to integrate computing resources for the LHCproject. We also collaborate with the Czech academic network operator CESNET on expanding the Center and integrating it into the international grid. We are operating and developing the computing infrastructure of the Division.

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