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- Manfred Krammer (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
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- Zheng Li (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
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- Yasuo Arai (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))
Erik Heijne
(Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics (IEAP)-Czech Tec)
08/12/2011, 09:00
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Measuring the radiation environment in ATLAS or elsewhere: see it on your PC with Medipix
Prof.
Hartmut Sadrozinski
(SCIPP, UC Santa Cruz)
08/12/2011, 09:30
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
