This tour is reserved for students working on particle physics or accelerator projects (B projects).
A tour is provided of the DESY Test Beam area. We will meet at Building 27 for a 30-45 min tour of this area where prototypes of particle physics detectors are tested with electron beams, see also the information at the bottom.
Please wear appropriate footwear.
The tour is limited to 16 participants. Please register by Thursday 24 August. If there are free places left by the end of thursday then also students working on A projects can register from August 25 on and take them.
The DESY test beam offers a wide range of possibilities to users. By means of electrons and positrons with energies ranging from one to six gigaelectronvolts, the users can test properties of their detector prototypes, such as response behaviour and accuracy – this is decisive for their future function in the experiment. The beam for the three measuring stations is not decoupled directly from the accelerator. It is generated by introducing a hair-thin wire into the DESY beam. This creates photons that, through another target, are converted into electron–positron pairs. A magnet behind the target gives the test beam users the possibility to select the energy of the electrons individually. This process does not disturb the filling of PETRA III and consequently the photon science user run. The test beam setup offers a pixel telescope and a superconducting magnet, which are both available to the experimenters. The accelerator, which has been in operation since 1964, is a coveted facility for technology development.
