Lectures on Active Targets

ECT summer school on Machine Learning and Data Analysis for Nuclear Physics

Day 8: July 1^st, 2020

• Why active targets?

General introduction to active targets

Link: https://mediaspace.msu.edu/media/t/1_oknxp3a2

• Inverse kinematics

This video covers the issues associated with using reactions in inverse kinematics in low energy nuclear physics.

Link: https://mediaspace.msu.edu/media/t/1_wrivccrk

• Time projection chambers

This lecture presents general concepts and technologies used in time projection chamber detectors, with an emphasis on using them as active targets. 

Link: https://mediaspace.msu.edu/media/t/1_22gwszv0

• The Active Target Time Projection Chamber at NSCL

This video describes in more details the Active Target Time Projection Chamber (AT-TPC).

Link: https://mediaspace.msu.edu/media/t/1_vvuz6srp

• Data analysis

This video describes the data analysis process and prospects for the type of data taken by the AT-TPC. 

Link: https://mediaspace.msu.edu/media/t/1_1uit6nvx

• Applications of active targets

This lecture showcases some of the physics results obtained with active targets of different designs and purposes.

Link (part 1): https://mediaspace.msu.edu/media/t/1_f7hau3j9

Link (part 2): https://mediaspace.msu.edu/media/t/1_z9kd1y51