Example 1

The summer student(s) would work on acceptance testing of TRT End-cap
wheels arriving to CERN after assembly in Russia. This work includes
diverse measurements on mass production wheels in order to evaluate
their quality, such as wire tension, HV behavior and wire position,
according to well determined specifications. Systematic studies with
some acceptance stations are also foreseen aiming at improving their
functionality and understanding towards a final acceptance system that
will run for about 2 years. The work includes both hardware and software
activities. The contribution of the students will be extremely helpful
for the TRT project and we believe of high interest for young physicists
as they will get in close contact with one of the most complex tracking
detector for the LHC experiments. 


Example 2

The student will be involved in the activity related to the detector
RICH-1 in the COMPASS experiment. She/he will take part in data taking
and detector maintenance during the 2003 run period. He should also get
some understanding of the operation and control of such a complex
detector. He can participate in the development and upgrade of the
on-line monitoring software. 


Example 3

The LHC superconducting cables require low magnetisation at low field.
Production follow-up at CERN has demonstrated that extremely high values
of magnetisation found in some strands are related to exceptional large
deformation of filaments during extrusion. Numerical description of the
shape of a filament and a statistical approach for the great number of
filaments in a strand are required to allow quantitative correlation of
filament morphology and magnetization. We propose to the student to
establish an analysis protocol for precise, reproducible and automatic
measurement of superconducting filaments morphology and statistical
treatment for the set of filaments with in a strand. That will mainly
consist of definition of convenient shape factors and application of
image analysis routines, but also includes optimization of specimen
preparation and observation conditions. Several tools and skills present
in EST/SM group will be involved: metallographic preparation, optical
microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and quantitative image
analysis. 


Example 4

ISOLDE target and ion source development ISOLDE at CERN is the
world-leading production facility for short-lived radioactive isotopes.
The heart of every ISOL (isotope separation on-line) facility is the
target and ion source unit. To develop new (not yet existing) ISOL beams
it is necessary to collect off-line data on diffusion and effusion to
design an optimized target and ion source unit. These data are obtained
by activating prospective materials briefly in the proton beam or by
implanting a radioactive tracer beam into them. The activity is measured
by gamma-ray spectroscopy before and after a heating cycle. Repeating
the latter several times at different temperatures allows the diffusion
coefficients to be extracted. The desorption is studied with a
thermochromatography set-up. The students are expected to participate in
these tests and to evaluate the obtained data which will then allow to
discover new isotopes at ISOLDE. 


Example 5

AliRoot is an object oriented framework based on the ROOT framework,
which integrates the simulation, reconstruction and analysis software of
the ALICE experiment. For simulation, the ALICE Software Project has
developed the concept of Virtual Monte Carlo, which allows to run
different transport Monte Carlo without changing the user code. The
interfacing of the FLUKA transport code is ongoing. An intensive testing
phase will follow the implementation. The summer student will perform
simulations of the ALICE detector using the FLUKA interface and hereby
participate in its testing.