Solenoidal Spectrometer Workshop 2025

Scientific program

• Physics with solenoidal spectrometers
  Key physics goals driving experiments using solenoidal spectrometers, with an emphasis on low-energy nuclear physics phenomena. Studies of nuclear structure, reaction mechanisms, and the behavior of rare isotopes in reactions such as transfer and inelastic scattering.  Role of solenoidal spectrometers in enabling precise momentum and particle identification measurements.
• Technology and operation of solenoidal spectrometers: active targets, silicon detectors, and others
  Detailed overview of the technological components of solenoidal spectrometers, focusing on the use of active targets like time projection chambers (TPCs) that serve as both target and detector to increase luminosity and provide 3D tracking. Silicon detector systems, including their design and applications in charged particle detection and energy resolution.  Auxiliary detector technologies.
• Data acquisition systems: design and integration
  Architecture and functioning of data acquisition systems (DAQ) tailored for complex nuclear physics experiments. Integration of front-end electronics, digitization hardware, trigger logic, synchronization, and data storage. Management of  high channel counts and real-time data processing are addressed. Modern digital DAQ systems employing FPGA and embedded processing to handle large data throughput.
• Data analysis techniques and software tools
  Strategies and tools used to process, reduce, and interpret data gathered from experiments. Event building methods to correlate multi-detector signals into coherent physical events, calibration procedures, noise and background reduction, and leveraging software frameworks and programming languages for interactive data analysis. Emerging uses of machine learning for event classification and pattern recognition.
• Theoretical aspects in low-energy nuclear physics
  Nuclear physics theory underpinning the interpretation of experimental data. Models relevant to low-energy nuclear reactions, nuclear structure, and reaction dynamics. Computational methods supporting this theory-experiment interplay.