Instrumentation for high-energy physics

The rst part of this summary contains a description of the passage of particles through matter. The basic physics processes for charged particles, photons, neutrons and neutrinos are mostly electromagnetic (collision losses described by Bethe-Bloch, bremsstrahlung, photo-electric effect, Compton scattering and pair production) for charged particles and photons; additional strong interactions for hadrons; neutrinos interacting weakly with matter. Concepts like radiation length, electromagnetic showers, nuclear interaction/absorption length and showers are covered. Important processes like multiple scattering, Cherenkov radiation, transition radiation, and dE=dx for particle identi cation are described next. This is followed by a short discussion of momentum measurement in magnetic elds. The last part of the summary covers particle detection by means of ionization detectors, scintillation detectors and semiconductor detectors. Signal processing is brie y discussed at the end.