DOE-INFN Summer Exchange Program - 2023 Edition

Activities: During the two months of the internship, the student will participate in the design of the calorimeter prototype using the Geant4, an Object Oriented toolkit for the simulation of the passage of particles through matter (see https://geant4.web.cern.ch/). Furthermore, the student will be involved in the assembly of the first prototype made of a matrix of 3x3 PWO crystals and may participate to the foreseen test beam at CERN PS&SPS extracted lines.

Tutor: Dr. Laura Bandiera (bandiera@fe.infn.it), Dr. Gianfranco Paternò (paterno@fe.infn.it)

Activity period: June-July or September-October

Housing: Camplus Darsena city, (400 m from the university campus) Canteen open at lunch-time in Campus Polo Scientifico e Tecnologico

Activities: The student, joining the Ferrara group in Summer 2023, will have the opportunity to participate to the different R&D activities: test and characterization of novel fast-timing single-photon detectors; test and characterization of front-end electronics; detector simulations.

Tutor: Massimiliano Fiorini (fiorini@fe.infn.it), Marco Guarise (guarise@fe.infn.it)

Activity period: June-July 2023

Activities: The student, joining the Ferrara group in Summer 2023, will have the opportunity to participate to the different R&D activities: test and characterization of novel pixel detectors based on the Timepix4 ASIC bump-bonded to Silicon sensors; test and characterization of front-end electronics and data acquisition system; imaging for medical physics applications and outreach activities

Tutors: Massimiliano Fiorini (fiorini@fe.infn.it), Paolo Cardarelli (cardarelli@fe.infn.it), Nicolò Biesuz (biesuz@fe.infn.it), Riccardo Bolzonella (rbolzonella@fe.infn.it)

Activity period: June-July 2023

Cryogenic characterization of the Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) sensors for the DUNE Far Detector experiment

Activities: The student, joining the Ferrara group in Summer 2023, will have the opportunity to collaborate with the group and participate to the laboratory activities aimed to perform the quality assurance tests of SiPMs.

Tutor: Luca Tomassetti (tomassetti@fe.infn.it), Marco Guarise (marco.guarise@fe.infn.it)

Activity period: June-July 2023

Activities: The activities will be focus on the development of the analysis code, the study of the selection efficiencies and the background rejection. Study of the resolution will be performed, as well as check on the inclusive MC. Given the remaining time, possibility to look at few percent of data will be investigated. All the work will be performed inside the BESIII official software releases.

Tutor: Gianluigi Cibinetto, Marco Scodeggio, Isabella Garzia, Giulio Mezzadri

Activity period: Both periods (June-July or September-October) are available.

The department is closed in August, usually in the week of August 15. Ferrara has a large tradition of touristic city, so plenty of apartments are available, as well as some rooms from university dorm shall be available.

Study of benchmark channels of BESIII CGEM-IT

Activities: The activities will be focus on the development of the analysis code, and the comparison with the present drift chamber performance with the official BESIII software release. The candidate will work with C++ and will increase their knowledge on how the detector performance influences the physics analyses.

Tutor: Gianluigi Cibinetto, Riccardo Farinelli, Isabella Garzia

Activity period: Both periods (June-July or September-October) are available.

The department is closed in August, usually in the week of August 15. Ferrara has a large tradition of touristic city, so plenty of apartments are available, as well as some rooms from university dorm shall be available.

uRWELL for muon detector development for muon detector of the IDEA spectrometer

Activities: The activities will be discussed with the candidate based on the time of their arrival. Some hardware (test with planar uRWELL prototypes) and software (data analysis of test beam or cosmic data) are available. The candidate will work in C++, with ROOT software and/or with GEANT4.

Tutor: Gianluigi Cibinetto, Riccardo Farinelli, Isabella Garzia

Activity period: Both periods (June-July or September-October) are available.

The department is closed in August, usually in the week of August 15. Ferrara has a large tradition of touristic city, so plenty of apartments are available, as well as some rooms from university dorm shall be available.