Speaker
Description
Hybrid pixel detectors have been the mainstay of vertex detection at the LHC because of their ability to provide clean images of particle events at extremely high rates. The Medipix and Timepix ASICs have demonstrated that the same technology can be applied to multiple other applications. These applications extend from the detection of background radiation in the classroom, to dosimetry in space, to the authentication of priceless art and to spectroscopic medical X-ray imaging and Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography. It was the combined efforts of a large community from different backgrounds which enabled the development of these very flexible ASICs leading to a myriad of new applications. This talk will try to demonstrate how from its origins in detector R and D for the LHC, hybrid pixel detector technology has reached and impacted on many other fields of science.
