Workshop on Timing Detectors: from particle physics to medical applications

from Wednesday, 15 October 2008 at 08:30 to Thursday, 16 October 2008 at 18:00 (Europe/Zurich)
at IPN Lyon

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Wednesday, 15 October 2008

08:30 - 09:00 Registration

09:00 - 09:15 Welcome 15'

Material:

Slides

09:15 - 10:30 Fast timing and TOF session

09:15 Fast timing and TOF in physics 30'

Speaker:	Henry Frisch
Material:	Slides

09:45 Fast timing and TOF in PET medical imaging 30'

Speaker:	Bill Moses
Material:	Slides

10:15 Discussion 15'

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30 News from photodetectors

11:00 Pixellated Picosecond Detectors (Photek) 30'

Speaker:	Jon Howorth
Material:	Slides

11:30 News from Photonis 30'

Speaker: Emile Schyns
12:00 Hammamatsu MCP update 30'

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 - 16:00 Electronics and read-out (I)

14:00 Update of the SAM chip performances measured on a USB powered board 30'

Speaker:	Eric Delagnes / Dominique Breton
Material:	Slides

14:30 10ps Timing with the BLAB series ASICs 30'

Speaker:	Gary Varner
Material:	Slides

15:00 First results from the DRS4 fast sampling chip 30'

Speaker:	Stefan Ritt (PSI)
Material:	Slides

15:30 First results from the CERN TDC chip 30'

Speaker: Christian Mester

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 - 19:00 Electronics and read-out (II)

16:30 Picosecond timing using microchannel plates 30'

Speaker:	Jean-Francois Genat
Material:	Slides

17:00 Filter transmission line read out of MCP 30'

Speaker:	Fukun Tang
Material:	Slides

17:30 Electronics simulation 30'

Speaker:	David Salek
Material:	Slides

18:00 Discussion 30'

19:30 - 22:30 Workshop dinner

Thursday, 16 October 2008

09:00 - 10:30 Test results and readout (I)

09:00 Progress on the development of TOF concept using MCP-PMT detectors at SLAC 30'

Speaker:	Jerry Va'Vra
Material:	Slides

09:30 Tests of MCP-PMT for the TOP counter 30'

Speaker:	Kenji Inami
Material:	Slides

10:00 FNAL Test beam and Future MCP developments at ANL 30'

Speaker:	Karen Byrun / Gary Drake
Material:	Slides

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30 Test results and readout (II)

11:00 Results from the CERN test beam 30'

Speaker:	Andrew Brandt
Material:	Slides

11:30 Gastof and picosecond resolution ToF detectors at the LHC 30'

Speaker:	Krzysztof Piotrzkowski
Material:	Slides

12:00 GASTOF: C++ simulation and comparison with TB data 30'

Speaker:	Nicolas Schul
Material:	Slides

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 - 15:30 Applications in Physics and medicine (I)

13:30 The ATLAS Forward Physics project 30'

Speaker:	Christophe Royon
Material:	Slides

14:00 Use of fast timing for positron beam 30'

Speaker: Patrick Nedelec

14:30 Chicago PET Development and Recent Progress in Digital TOFPET 30'

Speaker:	Chin-Tu Chen
Material:	Slides

15:00 Timing resolution of scintillation detectors: A Monte Carlo analysis 30'

Speaker:	Woon-Seng Choong
Material:	Slides

15:30 - 15:50 Coffee break

15:50 - 16:50 Applications in Physics and Medicine (II)

15:50 INNOTEP project 30'

Speaker:	Gerard Montarou
Material:	Slides

16:20 Front electronics read out for MCP - ABC 30'

Speaker:	Julien Lollierou / Yves Lemoigne
Material:	Slides

16:50 - 17:20 Conclusion - Final Discussion 30'