International Workshop on New Photon-detectors 2012

Session

SiPM applications

14 Jun 2012, 09:45

Amphithéâtre Pierre Lehmann (LAL Orsay)

Conveners

SiPM applications

• Toru Takeshita (Shinshu University (JP))

SiPM applications

• Toru Takeshita (Shinshu University (JP))

46. Initial Experience with Digital SiPMs in Detectors for Time-of-Flight PET

Dr Dennis Schaart (Delft University of Technology)

14/06/2012, 09:45

Oral presentation

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) have recently been shown to enable better timing resolution than photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) when used as light sensors in scintillation detectors. This makes them interesting for use in time-of-flight (TOF) positron emission tomography (PET). Additional features for this application are their compactness and magnetic field compatibility, enabling...

78. The AX-PET experiment: A demonstrator for an axial Positron Emission Tomography

Matthieu Heller (CERN)

14/06/2012, 10:05

Oral presentation

The AX-PET (AXial Positron Emission Tomography) experiment proposes a novel geometrical approach for a PET scanner, in which long LYSO scintillator crystals are placed axially in the tomograph. Arrays of WLS strips, placed behind each layer of crystals, provide the measurement of the axial coordinate. Both the crystals and the WLS strips are individually read out by G-APDs (Geiger-mode...

23. SiPM Photodetectors for Highest Time Resolution in PET

Stefan Gundacker (Vienna University of Technology (AT))

14/06/2012, 11:00

Oral presentation

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) have a wide range of applications in high energy and medical detector physics. Their excellent timing properties and compactness make them particularly interesting for time of flight positron emission tomography (TOF-PET). This study aims at determining the optimum detector conditions for highest time resolution in a TOF-PET system. The measurements are based on...

36. Test beam experiment with FARICH prototype

Mr Mikhail Barnyakov (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)

14/06/2012, 11:20

Oral presentation

The FARICH ('Focusing' Aerogel RICH) system is suggested for particle identification at Super Charm-Tau Factory project currently being developed at Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (Novosibirsk, Russia). The only candidate for the photon detectors of the FARICH are SiPMs. The FARICH prototype was tested with 1 GeV electrons on the test beam line at VEPP-4M collider. Multilayer focusing...

38. Development of a scintillation counter with MPPC readout for the internal tagging system

Prof. Hiroki Kanda (Tohoku University)

14/06/2012, 11:40

Oral presentation

We have been developing an array of electron counters for the photon tagging spectrometer at the Research Center for Electron Photon Science, Tohoku University (ELPH). Since it is installed in the limited space of the bending magnet of the accelerator, compact size and insensitivity to the magnetic field are required. We chose the multi-pixel photon counter (MPPC) HAMAMATSU S10362-33-100C as...

52. COMPET a high-resolution, high-sensitivity pre-clinical PET scanner

Kim-Eigard Hines (University of Oslo)

14/06/2012, 12:00

Oral presentation

COMPET is aiming for high-resolution with a high sensitivity by the use of a novel detector geometry. In classical PET detectors where detector elements are mounted radially the number of photo detectors to be read out scales with the square of the detector resolution. The lack of depth of interaction information contributes to a position dependent parallax error. The COMPET detector...

53. First experience with the FACT camera

Thomas Krähenbühl (ETH Zurich)

14/06/2012, 12:20

Oral presentation

The application of Geiger-mode multi pixel photon devices in the field of ground-based Cherenkov astronomy is currently being evaluated in the FACT (First G-APD Cherenkov Telescope) project. The FACT collaboration built a camera with 1440 pixels for the use in Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes, each pixel consisting of a Hamamatsu MPPC with a solid light collecting cone glued to it. The...