Yoshinobu Unno
(High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))
05/12/2011, 08:50
Mr
Kai-Yi Kao
(National Taiwan University (TW))
05/12/2011, 09:10
The Preshower detector, as part of the CMS endcap electromagnetic calorimeter, is designed to have good spatial resolution to identify the position of incoming photons/electrons in the endcaps. It is based on 4288 silicon sensors, each with active area 61x61 mm^2 segmented into 32 strips with 1.9mm pitch. Its spatial resolution relies upon excellent alignment with the neighbouring detectors,...
Dr
Andrej Gorisek
(Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))
05/12/2011, 09:10
Beam conditions and the potential detector damage resulting from
their anomalies have pushed the LHC experiments to build their own
beam monitoring devices. The ATLAS Experiment decided to build two
independent systems based on Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD)
diamond material.
The ATLAS Beam Conditions Monitor (BCM) consists of two stations
(forward and backward) of detectors each...
Dr
Adrian Perieanu
(Rheinisch-Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))
05/12/2011, 09:10
The alignment of the CMS Silicon Strips detector can be monitored using its built in Laser Alignment System. The 32 Laser beams in each endcap and the 8 Laser beams connecting the barrel and the endcap regions make it possible to monitor the alignment changes to a precision better than 10 $\mu$m and the measurement of the absolute alignment parameters better than 100 $\mu$m.
For this, 434...
Dr
Yosuke Takubo
(High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))
05/12/2011, 09:10
The inner tracker of the ATLAS detector will be replaced at the future upgrade to keep the performance at high luminosity operation. We have been developing super-module concept for the upgrade, based on double-sided silicon strip modules. In the super-module concept, one super-module consists of 12 double-sided modules and one double-sided module has 80 readout ASICs which read 128 strips per...
Dr
Yusaku Katayose
(Yokohama National university)
05/12/2011, 09:10
A front-end application specified integrated circuit (ASIC) is developed with a wide dynamic range to read out the signals from a photo-sensor like a photodiode.
The ASIC consists of a charge sensitive preamplifier, four wave-shaping circuits with different amplification
factors and an analog to digital converter(ADC) of Wilkinson-type.
To realize a wider range, the beed back capacitor of...
Christian Barth
(KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))
05/12/2011, 09:10
The CMS silicon strip tracker is the largest detector of its kind. It is expected to operate at the LHC for more than 10 years.
In order to quantify aging effects, it is important to keep track of the evolution of fundamental detector properties under radiation and thermal fluctuations. In the this talk we present our methods measuring the evolution of our sensors full depletion voltage and...
Alexandra junkes
(universität hamburg)
05/12/2011, 09:10
It is foreseen to significantly increase the luminosity of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by upgrading the LHC towards the HL-LHC (High Luminosity LHC) in order to harvest the maximum physics potential of the machine. Especially the final upgrade (Phase-II Upgrade) foreseen for 2021 will mean unprecedented radiation levels, exceeding the LHC fluences by roughly an order of magnitude. Due...
Dr
Cristobal Cuenca Almenar
(Yale University (US))
05/12/2011, 09:10
Hadronic tau decays play a crucial role in taking Standard Model measurements as well as in the search for physics beyond the Standard Model. However, hadronic tau decays are difficult to identify and trigger on due to their resemblance to QCD jets. Given the large production cross section of QCD processes, designing and operating a trigger system with the capability to efficiently select...
Dr
Gianluigi Casse
(University of Liverpool (GB))
05/12/2011, 10:00
The charge multiplication in severely irradiated silicon detectors is now a well proven effect that enhances the charge collection of silicon sensors making them able to operate up to at the doses anticipated for future super-colliders (like the high luminosity LHC at CERN). The effect is well documented but not completely understood. The multiplication is caused by impact ionisation due to...
Marc Christophersen
(US Naval Research Laboratory)
05/12/2011, 10:20
We report on a low-cost and flexible implementation of so-called "slim-edges" useful in many applications in high-radiation instrumentation with possible extension into large-scale application of semiconductor sensors in other fields. Post-production treatment affords flexibility and optimization in the sensor application. Future industrialization will be easy since these methods have been...
Dr
Cinzia Da Via
(School of Physics and Astronomy,The University of Manchester UK)
05/12/2011, 11:10
3D silicon sensors with double side etched electrodes and dimensions compatible to the ~4cm2 FE-I4 ATLAS pixel front-end chips, started their production for one of the LHC experiment’s upgrades in 2013. The Insertable b-Layer (IBL) is a single additional pixel layer which will be inserted within the existing pixel detectors in the ATLAS experiment. This paper will describe the strategy which...
Mr
Marco Povoli
(University of Trento and INFN Trento, Italy)
05/12/2011, 11:30
In the past few years important progress has been made in the development of 3D silicon radiation detectors due to the anticipated installation schedule of the ATLAS Insertable B Layer during the first long shut down of the LHC in 2013-2014. Three competing technologies have been evaluated for the IBL sensor production, namely silicon planar and 3D sensors, and diamond sensors. Within the...
Dr
Giulio Pellegrini
(IMB-CNM-CSIC Barcelona)
05/12/2011, 11:50
Silicon detectors cylindrical electrodes (so called 3D detectors) offer advantages over standard planar photodiodes as more radiation hard radiation sensors. 3D detectors with the double sided geometry have been fabricated at CNM clean room facilities. Different geometries including pixel detectors for high energy physics experiment and synchrotron imaging , short strip detectors with the...
Dr
Lodovico Ratti
(INFN Pavia)
05/12/2011, 12:10
Experiments at the future high luminosity colliders (like ILC, SuperB and SLHC) will set severe requirements on each of the parts making up the silicon vertex tracker (SVT), including the detector (i.e., the sensitive silicon volume) and the readout electronics. In order to separate the very dense particle jets emerging from the interaction region, the first detector layer will be placed very...
Prof.
Yasuo Arai
(High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))
05/12/2011, 14:00
Silicon-On-Insulator(SOI) technology was developed in semiconductor industry to realize high-performance and low-power devices, and now it is widely used in many companies. We have been collaborating with Lapis Semiconductor Co. Ltd. (former OKI Semiconductor) to apply this technology for radiation imaging sensor.
The SOI chip has a layer of integrated-circuit which is separated from...
Dr
Filippo Giorgi
(INFN Bologna and Physics Department (IT))
05/12/2011, 14:30
The Young-Feynman two-slit experiment for single electrons has been carried out by inserting in a conventional transmission electron microscope (TEM) two nanometric slits and a fast recording system able to measure the electron arrival-time. The detector, designed for experiments in future colliders such as those foreseen for the SuperB project, is based on a custom CMOS chip of 4096...
Dr
Stefan Rummel
(LMU Munich)
05/12/2011, 14:50
The upgrade of the KEKB accelerator towards a luminosity of 8*10^35 1/cm2s poses several challenges for the BELLE II detector. Especially detectors close to the interaction point will be faced with a significant radiation of several Mrad per year as well with a high hit density. To cope with this a silicon pixel detector will be used for the innermost layers of the silicon tracker.
The...
Reiner Klingenberg
(Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))
05/12/2011, 15:10
To extend the physics reach of the LHC, upgrades to the accelerator are planned which will increase the peak luminosity by a factor 5 to 10. To cope with the increased occupancy and radiation damage, the ATLAS experiment plans to introduce an all-silicon inner tracker with the HL-LHC upgrade. For radiation damage reasons, only electron-collecting sensor designs are considered (n-in-p and...
Taka Kondo
(High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))
05/12/2011, 16:15
The early years-SSC
Dr
Ronaldo Bellazzini
(INFN Pisa)
05/12/2011, 17:15
The Fermi Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (previously known as GLAST) is an international and multi-agency space mission that is studying the cosmos in the energy range 20 MeV - 1 TeV. Fermi is a gamma-ray observatory much more capable than instruments flown previously. The main instrument on board of the spacecraft is the Large Area Telescope (LAT), a high energy pair conversion...
Peter Weilhammer
(High Energy Physics Group-Smith Laboratory-Department of Physic)
05/12/2011, 17:45
Applications in Medical and Material Sciences
Ping-Kun Teng
(Academia Sinica)
06/12/2011, 09:00
The Versatile Link project is launched to develop a physical layer general purpose optical link with high bandwidth; radiation and magnetic resistance that meets the requirements of LHC upgrade experiments. On behalf of the Versatile Link collaboration we will present the latest results on system specifications, front-end transceiver prototypes, passive components studies and commercial...
Prof.
Hartmut Sadrozinski
(SCIPP, UC santa Cruz)
06/12/2011, 09:00
The punch-through effect is being developed as a way to safeguard against damage to silicon detectors, when a beam loss collapses the field in the sensors and brings the readout implants close to the bias voltage.
We evaluate the efficiency of the punch-through protection (PTP) by flooding the sensors with IR radiation, and measure the voltages on the strips on the readout side, which are...
Dr
Rong-Shyang Lu
(National Taiwan University)
06/12/2011, 09:00
Along the line of successful operation of LHC, it is expected to have the performance surpassing the design luminosity of 10^34 cm-1s-1 before 2020. CMS has planed the so-called phase I upgrade between the two LHC long shutdowns to replace the current silicon pixel detector. The upgrade detector will be capable to fully exploit the luminosity.
The upgrade detector will decrease the material...
Ryo Nagai
(Tokyo Institute of Technology (JP))
06/12/2011, 09:00
A new type of pixel sensors, n-in-p type, is being developed in order to cope with the particle fluence of 1-3x10^16 1-MeV neutron-equivalent particles/cm^2 in the LHC upgrade (HL-LHC). The n-in-p pixel sensors are ones for the present front-end chip (FE-I3) of the ATLAS detector and the others for the new front-end chip (FE-I4) for the higher occupancy in the HL-LHC. They are made in a p-bulk...
Mr
Shingo Mitsui
(Sokendai/KEK (JP))
06/12/2011, 09:00
The silicon pixel and strip sensors are required to work up to
the fluences of $¥geq$1$¥times$10$^{16}$ n/cm2 and
$¥geq$1$¥times$10$^{15}$n/cm2, respectively, for the high luminosity
upgrade of the LHC (HL-LHC). This requires a high sensor bias voltage of
1000 V applicable to cope with the radiation damage in the silicon bulk.
For planar sensors, the distance to the edge and multiple...
Prof.
Toshinobu Miyoshi
(Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK))
06/12/2011, 09:00
We are developing monolithic pixel detectors
with a 0.2 um Fully-Depleted (FD) silicon-on-insulator
(SOI) CMOS technology. The substrate layer
is high-resistivity silicon, and works
as a radiation sensor having p-n junctions.
The SOI layer is 40-nm silicon, where
readout electronics is implemented.
There is a buried oxide layer between these silicon layers.
This structure is ideal for...
Sebastian Grinstein
(Inst. de Fisica de Altas Energias (IFAE)-Universidad Autonoma de)
06/12/2011, 09:20
The upgrades for the ATLAS Pixel Detector will be staged in preparation for high luminosity LHC. The first upgrade for the Pixel Detector will be the construction of a new pixel layer which will be installed during the first shutdown of the LHC machine, foreseen in 2013-14. The new detector, called the Insertable B-layer (IBL), will be installed between the existing Pixel Detector and a new,...
Igor Rubinskiy
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
06/12/2011, 09:40
The upgrade for the ATLAS detector will undergo different phases towards HL-LHC. The first upgrade for the Pixel Detector will consist in the construction of a new pixel layer which will be installed during the first shutdown of the LHC machine (foreseen for 2013-14). The new detector, called Insertable B-Layer (IBL), will be inserted between the existing pixel detector and a new (smaller...
Yoshinobu Unno
(High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))
06/12/2011, 10:00
We have been developing silicon planar pixel sensors for very high radiation environments, based on n$^{+}$ pixels in p silicon-bulk, the n$^{+}$-in-p technology.
Recent development of the n$^{+}$-in-p silicon strip sensor has shown potentiality being radiation tolerant and low cost in fabrication.
An application of the n$^{+}$-in-p technology to the pixel sensor in the inner-most tracking...
Sally Seidel
(University of New Mexico (US))
06/12/2011, 10:20
We describe the implementation of radiation damage monitoring using
measurement of leakage current in the silicon pixel sensors provided by the circuits of the ATLAS Pixel Detector high voltage delivery system. The dependence of the leakage current upon the integrated luminosity for several temperature scenarios is presented. Based on the analysis we have determined the sensitivity...
Maria Bernard-Schwarz
(Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
06/12/2011, 11:10
For the high-luminosity phase of LHC a campaign within CMS started to investigate different technologies. Therefore 6'' silicon wafers were ordered at HPK to answer question e.g. radiation tolerance and annealing behavior of different sensor material. The testing variety concern sensor versions n-in-p and p-in-n in thicknesses from 50µm to 300µm. In terms of sensor material the difference...
Dr
Sergio Diez Cornell
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
06/12/2011, 11:30
While the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is continuing to deliver an ever-increasing luminosity to the experiments, plans for an upgraded machine called High-Luminosity-LHC (HL-LHC) are progressing. The upgrade is foreseen to increase the LHC design luminosity by a factor ten. The ATLAS experiment will need to build a new tracker for HL-LHC operation, which needs to be suited to the harsh...
Allan Clark
(University of Geneva)
06/12/2011, 11:50
The current ATLAS Inner Detector (ID) was designed to survive a luminosity of 2x1034 cm-2s-1 at the CERN LHC. Following the phase 2 of the LHC machine upgrade, called High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), the peak luminosity will reach 5x1034 cm-2s-1 and the delivered integrated luminosity will increase by a factor of 10. To maintain the tracking performance in a severe radiation environment (up to...
Sergio Gonzalez Sevilla
(Universite de Geneve (CH))
06/12/2011, 12:10
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is currently providing proton-proton collisions with continous increase in the luminosity delivered to the experiments. ATLAS is a general purpose detector designed to fully exploit the physics potential of the LHC at a nominal luminosity of 1034 cm-2 s-1. It is planned to extend the LHC physics programme by increasing the instantaneous peak luminosity...
Yu Takahashi
(University of Tsukuba (JP))
06/12/2011, 14:00
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is planned to be upgraded to High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) in ten years. The upgrade aims at increasing the luminosity up to 5.0 × 10^34 cm^-2 s^-1 where the strip sensors will receive about 20 Gy/h of radiation. We are designing n-strip on p-bulk microstrip sensors for the ATLAS experiment at the HL-LHC. The sensors have been shown to be radiation tolerant up to...
Harris Kagan
(Ohio State University (US))
06/12/2011, 14:20
Progress in experimental particle physics in the coming decade depends
crucially upon the ability to carry out experiments at high energies and high luminosities. These two conditions imply that future experiments will take place in very high radiation areas. In order to perform these complex and perhaps expensive experiments new radiation hard technologies will have to be developed. ...
Jieh-Wen Tsung
(Universitaet Bonn (DE))
06/12/2011, 14:40
The performance of diamond pixel detectors (single- and poly-crystalline) in high radiation environments is compared to silicon. Estimation of Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) and measurements on real devices with the ATLAS FE-I4 pixel readout chips are presented.
Diamond is an attractive sensor material for vertex detectors because of its strong radiation-resistance. Also, its tiny leakage...
Dr
Andrej Gorisek
(Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))
06/12/2011, 15:00
Luminosity monitors, beam monitors and tracking detectors of the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider and their upgrades must be able to operate in radiation environments several orders of magnitude harsher than those of any current detector. We have observed in ATLAS that as the environment becomes harsher detectors not segmented, either spatially or in time, have difficulty handling the...
Dr
Masanori Ohno
(Hiroshima University)
06/12/2011, 15:50
Astro-H is 6th Japanese X-ray space observatory which will be launched in 2014. Two of onboard instruments of Astro-H, Hard X-ray Imager and Soft Gamma-ray Detector are surrounded by many number of large Bithmuth Germanate (Bi4Ge3O12; BGO) scintillators. Optimum readout system of scintillation lights from these BGOs are essential to reduce the background signals and achieve high performance...
Dr
Yunpeng Lu
(Institute of High Energy Physics , Beijing, China)
06/12/2011, 16:10
FE-I4 is a 130nm feature size CMOS readout IC designed for the next-generation of hybrid pixel detectors. The first version FE-I4A contains multiple powering options in order to evaluate the performance for future applications. The first optimization is being done for the ATLAS Insertable B-Layer (IBL) upgrade. FE-I4A contains two stand-alone linear-shunt voltage regulators(ShuLDO) and a...
19.
ASIC development for high speed serial data transmission from detector front-end to the back-end
Prof.
Jingbo Ye
(Southern Methodist University (US))
06/12/2011, 16:30
A 5 Gb/s 16:1 serializer ASIC has been developed using a commercial 0.25 um thin-film silicon-on-sapphire CMOS technology. This prototype has been evaluated against operational conditions in detector front-end environments of the proposed HL-LHC upgrade. A novel two channel array serializer ASIC is being designed to meet challenges in ultra-high data transmission in the range of 100 Gb/s for...
Chia-Ming Kuo
(National Central University (TW))
06/12/2011, 17:20
The Preshower detector, part of the CMS Endcap Electromagnetic Calorimeter, is designed to have good spatial
resolution to distinguish between different types of incoming particles. The Preshower is a sampling detector
with two layers of lead absorber, each followed by 1.9mm pitch silicon strip sensors. Each of the 4288 DC-coupled sensors
has an active area of 61x61mm^2, making a total...
Dave Robinson
(University of Cambridge (GB))
07/12/2011, 09:30
The Semi-Conductor Tracker (SCT), is a silicon strip detector and one of the key precision tracking devices in the Inner Detector of the ATLAS experiment at CERN LHC.
The SCT is constructed of 4088 silicon detector modules for a total of 6.3 million strips. Each module is designed, constructed and tested to operate as a stand-alone unit, mechanically, electrically, optically and thermally....
Francesco Palmonari
(Sezione di Pisa (IT))
07/12/2011, 09:50
The CMS tracker is the largest of its kind built to date. It has an
active area in excess of 200m2 of silicon, which provides high precision
measurement points for track reconstruction. In order to use the data
from the silicon strip and pixel systems to reconstruct charged
particle trajectories as well as primary and secondary vertices,
multi-step calibration procedures including module...
Cecile Lapoire
(Universitaet Bonn (DE))
07/12/2011, 10:10
The ATLAS Pixel Detector is the innermost detector of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, providing high-resolution measurements of charged particle tracks in the high radiation environment close to the collision region. This capability is vital for the identification and measurement of proper decay times of long-lived particles such as b-hadrons, and thus vital for the...
Greig Cowan
(Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))
07/12/2011, 11:00
The LHCb detector has been optimized for the search for New Physics in
CP violating observables and rare heavy-quark decays at the Large
Hadron Collider (LHC). The detector is a single arm forward
spectrometer with excellent tracking and particle identification
capabilities. The LHCb Silicon Tracker is constructed from silicon
micro-strip detectors with long readout strips. It consists of...
Vito Manzari
(Universita e INFN (IT))
07/12/2011, 11:40
The ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is general purpose experiment optimized for the study of heavy-ion collisions at the CERN LHC. The physics programme includes proton-proton collisions for reference data and also for genuine physics topics for which ALICE is complementary to the other LHC experiments.
The ALICE Inner Tracking System (ITS) is the innermost tracking detector of ALICE...
Minglee Chu
(Academia Sinica)
08/12/2011, 09:00
In characterizing a serial data transmission link, Bit Error Rate (BER) test provides the most stringent measurement. We will present a BER tester implementation using the Altera Stratix GX/GT signal integrity development kits. The Stratix II GX tester operates up to 6.5 Gbps and the Stratix IV GT tester operates up to 10Gbps, both in 4 duplex channels, with information of each single bit...
Mr
Ondrej Sik
(postgradual student)
08/12/2011, 09:00
Because direct band gap and high atom number, Cadmium Telluride based detectors are promissing for next generation of radiodiagnostic devices. In present manufacturing technology, the compensation of deep levels is not satisfactory solid. Presence of deep levels leeds to charge tramping in detectors bulk. The effect of charge tramping is inferior charge collection in contacts area and...
Michael Alexander
(Univ. of Glasgow)
08/12/2011, 09:00
Matthew Michael Reid
(University of Warwick)
08/12/2011, 09:00
Erik Heijne
(Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics (IEAP)-Czech Tec)
08/12/2011, 09:00
Applications in Space, Medical, Biology, Material Sciences
ORAL
Measuring the radiation environment in ATLAS or elsewhere: see it on your PC with Medipix
Dr
Chang-Woo Seo
(Advanced Medical Device Research Center, KERI)
08/12/2011, 09:00
Recently X-ray based Computed Tomography (CT) technology has a revolution impact on medical diagnosis and also has been successfully used in industrial non-destructive testing of advanced materials. Such a technique takes advantage of the cone-beam CT (CBCT) geometry, to increase the resolution and reduce the acquisition time. CBCT system relies extremely on geometric precision and measurement...
Prof.
Hartmut Sadrozinski
(SCIPP, UC Santa Cruz)
08/12/2011, 09:30
Applications in Space, Medical, Biology, Material Sciences
ORAL
The UC Santa Cruz-Loma Linda U. pCT Collaboration is developing a new head scanner for proton CT, based on the experience of the existing prototype being used in the beam to optimize data reduction and reconstruction algorithms.
The system consists of s two silicon telescopes which track the proton before and after the phantom/patient, and an energy detector which measures the residual...
Hidenori Matsuda
(Waseda University)
08/12/2011, 09:50
Applications in Space, Medical, Biology, Material Sciences
ORAL
We developed a front-end ASIC for future PET scanners with time-of-flight (TOF) capability to be coupled with Multi Pixel Photon Counter (MPPC) arrays. The ASIC is designed based on the open-IP project proposed by JAXA and realized in TSMC 0.35 $\mu$m CMOS technology. The circuit comprises 32-channel, low impedance current conveyers to effectively acquire fast MPPC signals. For precise...
Marko Mikuz
(Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))
08/12/2011, 10:10
Applications in Space, Medical, Biology, Material Sciences
ORAL
studying small animal models of human disease. In the conventional approach, the 511 keV
annihilation photons emitted from a patient or small animal are detected by a ring of scintillators
such as LYSO read out by arrays of photodetectors. Although this has been successful in
achieving ~5mm FWHM spatial resolution in human studies and ~1mm resolution in dedicated
small animal instruments,...
Prof.
Bill Atwood
(SCIPP, UCSC)
08/12/2011, 11:00
Applications in Space, Medical, Biology, Material Sciences
ORAL
GLAST (now Fermi-LAT) was conceived in 1992 and first presented at the 3rd Hiroshima Conference in 1993. The LAT was launched in 2008 and is now beginning its 4th year on orbit. The silicon strip technology was immediately identified as the technology of choice for a space-based detector: stability, no consumables, radiation hard, and high precision. What was not immediately realized were...
Dr
Luca Baldini
(INFN Pisa)
08/12/2011, 11:30
Applications in Space, Medical, Biology, Material Sciences
ORAL
Title: The Silicon Strip Tracker of the Fermi Large Area Telescope: performance after three years of operation in space
Author: L.Baldini, INFN Pisa
The Large Area Telescope (LAT) is the main instrument onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, an orbital observatory launched in low-Earth orbit on June 11 2008 to survey the high-energy gamma-ray sky. The LAT tracker/converter serves the...
Dr
Sadakazu Haino
(Universita e INFN (IT))
08/12/2011, 11:50
Applications in Space, Medical, Biology, Material Sciences
ORAL
Since the successful launch of space shuttle, STS-134 on 16/May/2011,
the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) has been continuously taking cosmic
data for several months.
As well as the other AMS detector components, the AMS silicon Tracker is working as expected. The tracker is composed of 2264 double sided silicon microstrip sensors with
total active area of 6.75 m^2. In this paper...
Mr
Katsuhiro Hayashi
(Hiroshima University)
08/12/2011, 12:10
Applications in Space, Medical, Biology, Material Sciences
ORAL
Hard X-ray Imager (HXI) and Soft Gamma-ray Detector (SGD) onboard the 6th Japanese X-ray satellite, ASTRO-H, which is scheduled to be launched in 2014, utilize the double-sided silicon strip detector (DSSD) and the pixel array type silicon sensor (Si-pad), respectively. DSSD with a strip pitch of 250 um in a 3.4 cm x 3.4 cm area has imaging capability in 5-30 keV with an energy resolution of...
Tatsuhiko Saito
(Waseda University)
08/12/2011, 14:00
Applications in Space, Medical, Biology, Material Sciences
ORAL
Hard X-ray Imager and Soft Gamma-ray Detector are being developed as on-board instruments for the Astro-H mission, which is scheduled for launch in 2014. In both detectors, BGO scintillators play key roles in achieving high sensitivity in low earth orbit, by generating active veto signals to reject cosmic-ray events and gamma-ray backgrounds from the radio-activated detector materials....
Dr
Ronaldo Bellazzini
(INFN Pisa)
08/12/2011, 14:20
Applications in Space, Medical, Biology, Material Sciences
ORAL
The Gas Pixel Detector, recently developed and continuously improved by Pisa INFN in collaboration with IASF-Roma of INAF, can visualize the tracks produced within a low Z gas by photoelectrons of few keV. By reconstructing the impact point and the original direction of the photoelectrons, the GPD can measure the linear polarization of X-rays, while preserving the information on the absorption...
Takuya Kato
(Waseda University)
08/12/2011, 14:40
Applications in Space, Medical, Biology, Material Sciences
ORAL
We have developed a large-area monolithic Multi-Pixel Photon Counter (MPPC) array consisting of 4×4 channels and flexible printed circuit (FPC) cables. Each channel has a photosensitive area of 3×3mm^2 and 3600 Geiger mode avalanche photodiodes (APDs). For a typical operational gain of 7.5×10^5 at +20 deg, gain fluctuation is only ±5.8% (RSD) over the MPPC device, and dark count rates (as...
Jer Ling
(NARL)
08/12/2011, 15:00
Applications in Space, Medical, Biology, Material Sciences
ORAL
FORMOSAT-5 is the first space program that National Space Organization (NSPO) takes full responsibility for the complete satellite systems engineering designs including payload(s). FORMOSAT-5 will operate in a sun synchronous orbit at 720-km altitude. The satellite has the optical Remote Sensing Instrument (RSI), which provides 2-m resolution panchromatic (PAN) and 4-m resolution...
Prof.
Takaki Hatsui
(RIKEN, SPring-8 Center)
08/12/2011, 15:20
Applications in Space, Medical, Biology, Material Sciences
ORAL
The SPring-8 Angstrom Compact Free Electron Laser (SACLA) facility has
observed the X-ray lasing on June 7th, 2011. SACLA is the second laser
of its type in operation, following LCLS at the U.S. Department of
Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. It has produced X-ray
laser with 0.08 nm wavelength, which is the world's shortest X-ray laser
light. SACLA offers scientists a...
Hartmut Sadrozinski
(University of California,Santa Cruz (US))
08/12/2011, 15:40
