Hartmut Sadrozinski
(SCIPP, UC santa Cruz)
2/11/13, 10:30 AM
Invited Talk
Particle detectors find increasing applications in medicine. The broad spectrum of particles used in medicine requires a variety of instruments, which are mostly based on concepts originally developed within HEP, Nuclear Physics or Astro-physics. The optimization of these instruments for clinical use will be shown on examples in dosimetry, beam diagnostics and in the wide field of imaging.
Laura Baudis
(University of Zurich)
2/11/13, 11:20 AM
Invited Talk
Astroparticle physics is an exciting new field of research at the interface between particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology. After briefly addressing some of the fundamental questions it is trying to answer, I will review the newest experimental developments in this varied field, with emphasis on present and future detector technologies for dark matter searches.
Manfred Krammer
(Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
2/11/13, 12:10 PM
Dr
Thomas Schreiner
(MedAustron)
2/11/13, 2:00 PM
Talk
MedAustron is a synchrotron based light-ion beam therapy centre for cancer treatment as well as for clinical and non-clinical research, currently in the construction phase. The accelerator design is based on the CERN-PIMMS study and its technical implementation by the Italian CNAO Foundation. Whilst the choice of basic machine parameters was driven by medical requirements, the accelerator...
Mr
Hartmut Abele
(ATI)
2/11/13, 2:25 PM
Invited Talk
We present new neutron detector concepts for ultra-cold, cold and fast neutrons. The developments are driven by the experimental needs: the next generation of neutron lifetime experiments require high rate capacities of 100 x 10^6 s^{-1}, gravity tests at short distances need a detector with a spatial resolution of a micron at low background, time of flight experiments require a time...
Bernhard Ketzer
(Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE))
2/11/13, 3:15 PM
Talk
A Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is a powerful detector for 3-dimensional tracking and particle identification for ultra-high multiplicity events. It is the central tracking device of many experiments, e.g. the ALICE experiment at CERN. The necessity of a switching electrostatic gate, which prevents ions produced in the amplification region of MWPCs from entering the drift volume, however,...
Gianluigi Casse
(University of Liverpool (GB))
2/11/13, 4:15 PM
Invited Talk
I will present a very brief history of silicon detectors in physics experiments culminating in the spectacular systems now delivering great physics in the CERN/LHC. An overview of the status of the present R&D towards future applications will follow.
Prof.
Lutz Feld
(Rheinisch-Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))
2/11/13, 5:05 PM
Talk
The CMS experiment plans to replace the silicon pixel detector by a new one with improved rate capability and an additional detection layer at the end of 2016. In order to cope with the increased number of detector modules the new pixel detector will be powered via DC-DC converters close to the sensitive detector volume. This talk will review the DC-DC powering scheme and report on the ongoing...
Dr
Piero Giubilato
(Università e INFN Padova)
2/11/13, 5:30 PM
Talk
The LePix project explores monolithic pixel sensors fabricated in a 90nm CMOS technology for which more lightly doped substrates are available. This maintains the advantages usually offered by Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS), like a low input capacitance, having a single piece detector and using a standard CMOS production line, but offers charge collection by drift from a depleted...
George Mikenberg
(Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))
2/12/13, 9:00 AM
Invited Talk
By showing comparisons between the achieved performance and the expected one from the various sub-detectors of the large LHC Experiments at conditions that exceed the original design, it will be shown that the first answer is yes, BUT. The BUT will be dedicated to various problems encountered with industrial orders and design mistakes, and what lessons one should learn from these issues.
Alexandre Rozanov
(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
2/12/13, 9:50 AM
Talk
The ATLAS Pixel Detector is the innermost detector of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The detector provides hermetic coverage with three cylindrical layers and three layers of forward and backward pixel detectors. It consists of approximately 80 million pixels that are individually read out via chips bump-bonded to 1744 n-in-n silicon substrates. In this talk,...
Heinrich Schindler
(CERN)
2/12/13, 10:15 AM
Talk
The LHCb collaboration presented a Letter of Intent (LOI) to the LHCC in March 2011 for a major upgrading of the detector during Long Shutdown 2 (2018) and intends to collect a data sample of 50/fb in the LHC and High-Luminosity-LHC eras. The aim is to operate the experiment at an instantaneous luminosity 2.5 times above the present operational luminosity, which has already been pushed to...
Martin Aleksa
(CERN)
2/12/13, 11:20 AM
Marcella Diemoz
(Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))
2/12/13, 11:20 AM
Anna Macchiolo
(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (D)
2/12/13, 2:00 PM
A summary of the recent results of the ATLAS Planar Pixel R&D project will be given, with a focus on thin n-in-p detectors, with an active thickness from 75 μm to 200 μm, from productions of the MPI Semiconductor Laboratory, VTT and FBK-CMM. The MPI-HLL thin n-in-p pixels were interconnected using the ATLAS FE-I3 and FE-I4 read-out chips, with standard solder bump-bonding and in case of...
Danilo Domenici
(Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare (IT))
2/12/13, 2:00 PM
Talk
The upgrade of the KLOE detector at the DAFNE Phi-factory foresees the insertion of a new Inner Tracker device around the interaction region, composed by four tracking layers with diameters from 260 mm to 410 mm and an active length of 700 mm.
Each layer is realized as a cylindrical triple-GEM detector, a solution that allows to keep the total material budget under 2% of X0, of utmost...
Oliver Grimm
(ETH Zurich)
2/12/13, 2:00 PM
Solar Orbiter is a sun-observing mission of the European Space Agency, addressing the interaction between the sun and the heliosphere (launch is scheduled for 2017). The satellite will carry ten instruments, and will approach the sun to 0.28 astronomical units, allowing unprecedented high-resolution measurements. The X-ray imaging spectrometer on-board Solar Orbiter is called STIX...
Prof.
Vladimir Peskov
(CERN)
2/12/13, 2:25 PM
Talk
During the last two years, our team has developed a cost effective technology of manufacturing various types of micropattern gaseous detectors designed for applications in many fields. The designs of these detectors feature a matrix of thin metallic readout strip located under segmented resistive electrodes. This electrode configuration makes such detectors very robust, allows them to be...
Dr
Nicola Mori
(INFN Florence)
2/12/13, 2:25 PM
Calorimetry plays an essential role in experiments for observing very high energy gamma and cosmic rays in space. Geometrical dimensions and mass of the calorimeter are the main limiting factors. The available mass depends on the design of the detector and the total available mass of the payload. It is therefore important to optimize the geometrical acceptance of the calorimeter for rare...
Clara Nellist
(University of Manchester (GB))
2/12/13, 2:25 PM
3D Silicon pixel detectors, selected to make-up 25% of the ATLAS Insertable B-Layer (IBL) and 100% of the ATLAS Forward Physics (AFP) tracking system, were studied in an intense laboratory and beam test qualification program in 2011 and 2012. The IBL is a new pixel layer which will be installed between the current ATLAS pixel detector and a new, thinner beam pipe of radius 3.2 cm during the...
Javier Galan Lacarra
(CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))
2/12/13, 2:50 PM
Talk
Resistive-anode Micromegas detectors are in development since several years, in an effort to solve the problem of sparks when working in high flux and high radiations environment like in the HL-LHC (ten times the luminosity of the LHC). They have been chosen as one of the technologies that will be part of the ATLAS New Small Wheel project (forward muon system). An ageing study is mandatory to...
Dr
Giuseppe Osteria
(INFN Napoli)
2/12/13, 2:50 PM
The JEM-EUSO instrument is a wide-angle refractive telescope in near-UV wavelength region being proposed for attachment to the Japanese Experiment Module onboard ISS. The main scientific goal of the mission is the study of Ultra High Energy cosmic Rays. The instrument consists of high transmittance optical Fresnel lenses with a diameter of 2.5 m, a focal surface covered by 4932 MAPMTs of 64...
Enver Alagoz
(Purdue University (US))
2/12/13, 2:50 PM
The CMS pixel detector is the innermost tracking device at the LHC, reconstructing the interaction vertices and charged particle trajectories. The current planar sensors located in the innermost layer of the pixel detector will be exposed to very high fluences which will degrade their performances. As a possible replacement of planar pixel sensors for the High Luminosity-LHC or HL-LHC, 3D...
Dr
David ATTIE
(CEA/DSM/DAPNIA/SPP)
2/12/13, 3:15 PM
Talk
Significant R&D on detectors for the future International Linear Collider (ILC) has been carried out by the community in the last decade. The International Large Detector (ILD) is one detector concept at the ILC where calorimetry and tracking systems are combined. The tracking system consists of a vertex detector and a large volume Time Projection Chamber (TPC).
Within the framework of...
Ms
Francisca Javiela Muñoz Sánchez
(IFCA (CSIC-UC), Santander,Spain)
2/12/13, 3:15 PM
Future colliders, like High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) or future generation of colliders will deliver higher radiation doses to the detectors, specifically those closer to the beam line. The instantaneous luminosity as well as the particle fluxes at the detectors, will be increased considerably. Inner tracker detectors will be the most affected part, increasing substantially its...
Nikolay Budnev
(Irkutsk State University)
2/12/13, 3:15 PM
In autumn of 2012 a EAS Cherenkov light array Tunka-133 with $\sim$3\,km$^2$ geometrical area in the Tunka Valley (50 km from Lake Baikal) for a detailed study of the cosmic ray energy spectrum and the mass composition with energy above 10$^{16}$ eV was combined with new Tunka-Rex (Tunka radio extension) array of about 20 antennas measures the radio emission of cosmic-ray air showers. The...
Jochen Schieck
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen (DE))
2/12/13, 4:30 PM
The successful heavy flavour factory KEKB, operating between 1999 and 2010 at KEK, Tsukuba, Japan, is currently being upgraded and is foreseen to start commissioning in the fall of 2014. The new e+e- collider (SuperKEKB) will provide an instantaneous luminosity of 8x10^35 cm^2/s, 40 times higher than the current world record set by KEKB.
In order to handle the increased event rate and the...
Dr
Zhiguo Yao
(IHEP, Beijing)
2/12/13, 4:30 PM
Large Area Water Cherenkov Array (LAWCA), a newly planned water Cherenkov detector, is to be built in Yangbajing, Tibet, China by the end of 2014, for detecting air showers at high altitude of 4300 m a.s.l. The LAWCA detector, amounting to an area of 23,000 m2 and built adjacent to the ARGO-YBJ detector, mainly aims to all sky survey for transient sources. A cross calibration between LAWCA and...
Dr
Andrey Elagin
(University of Chicago)
2/12/13, 4:30 PM
Talk
Microchannel plates (MCPs) allow for micron-level spatial imaging and picosecond-level time resolution, making them a good solution for the next generation of photo-detectors aiming for precision time-of-flight measurements. The Large-Area Picosecond Photo-Detector Collaboration (LAPPD) is currently developing a 20x20cm, thin, planar, glass-body detector with the MCPs serving as the gain...
Adrian Vogel
(Universitaet Bonn (DE))
2/12/13, 4:55 PM
Talk
The ATLAS Transition Radiation Tracker (TRT) is the outermost of the three tracking subsystems of the ATLAS Inner Detector The ATLAS detector is located at LHC/CERN. We report on how these gaseous detectors (“straw tubes”) are performing during the ATLAS 2011 and 2012 runs where the TRT experiences higher rates than previously encountered.
The TRT contains ~300000 thin-walled...
Daniela Calvo
(INFN-Torino (IT))
2/12/13, 4:55 PM
The PANDA experiment will make use of cooled antiproton beams at the future FAIR facility. The physics goals dictate basic requirements to the Micro Vertex Detector of the experiment such as the capability to resolve secondary vertices of short-lived particles, limited material budget, additional information to the global PID by energy loss meaurement. Continuous readout and radiation...
Seiko Hirota
(Kyoto University)
2/12/13, 5:20 PM
A hybrid photo-detector (HPD) is being developed for the Hyper-Kamiokande experiment, a next-generation underground water Cherenkov detector designed to study a wide range of topics in physics and astronomy.
To establish the feasibility of HPDs for Hyper-Kamiokande, we plan to study their long-term stability and determine their neutrino detection performance. The HPD is a hybridization of a...
Mr
Benoit CAYLAR
(CEA-LIST, Diamond Sensors Laboratory (FR))
2/12/13, 5:20 PM
We report on the fabrication and test of the first prototype of a 3D
diamond detector for applications in particle physics. Polycrystalline
and single-crystal CVD diamond samples have been processed with a
femto-second laser to create arrays of graphitic columns with a diameter
of a few microns. This 3D geometry of read-out electrodes enhances the
radiation hardness due to the reduced...
Dr
Mariana Petris
(Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania)
2/12/13, 5:20 PM
Talk
A TRD prototype based on a single multiwire proportional chamber coupled with a small drift region was developed for the most inner part of the CBM-TRD subdetector. It preserves the same gas thickness for transition radiation absorption as the small size double-sided prototype for which an extrapolated pion efficiency of ~1% for a six layers configuration was obtained and fulfills the...
Willem Koppert
(NIKHEF (NL))
2/12/13, 5:45 PM
Talk
The innovative GridPix detector is a micro TPC, read out with a Timepix pixelchip. Each individual element of the 256x256 pixel-matrix is connected to a preamplifier, discriminator and TDC (100MHz) for time of arrival measurements. By using wafer post processing techniques an aluminium grid is placed on top of the chip. When operated, the electric field in between the grid and the chip is...
David Mahon
(University of Glasgow)
2/13/13, 9:00 AM
Cosmic-ray muons are highly penetrative charged particles observed at sea level at a rate of 1 per square cm per min. They interact with matter primarily through Coulomb scattering. These properties are exploited in muon tomography to image objects inside industrial nuclear waste containers. A prototype scintillating-fibre detector has been developed at the University of Glasgow in...
Dr
Klaus Föhl
(Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)
2/13/13, 9:00 AM
Talk
The PANDA experiment at the FAIR laboratory, currently under construction at GSI in Darmstadt, Germany, requires excellent Particle Identification for its study of proton-antiproton reactions in the few GeV energy range. In the confined space of the PANDA Target Spectrometer, two RICH-type Cherenkov detectors mainly aim at pion-kaon separation: a Barrel-DIRC detector patterned after the...
Mark Tobin
(Universitaet Zuerich (CH))
2/13/13, 9:00 AM
The LHCb experiment is designed to perform high-precision measurements of CP violation and search for New Physics using the enormous flux of beauty and charm hadrons produced at the LHC. The LHCb detector is a single-arm spectrometer with excellent tracking and particle identification capabilities.
The Silicon Tracker is part of the tracking system and measures very precisely the particle...
Jun Kataoka
(Waseda University)
2/13/13, 9:25 AM
One year after Japan’s nuclear disaster, the invisible threat of radiation lingers around homes and businesses near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant. Various gamma cameras are being developed and are now undergoing careful field tests. Although some are compact, the detector weight still exceeds 10 kg due to the thick mechanical collimator. Other models use electronic collimation but have...
Mariana Narcisa Rihl
(Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
2/13/13, 9:25 AM
Talk
Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are multi-pixel APDs operated in Geiger mode. This photon detection technology is characterized by a high photon detection efficiency, low costs and an insensitivity to magnetic fields. These attributes make them suitable for detectors in many research fields, such as particle physics, nuclear physics or medical imaging.
A prototype of a position sensitive...
Dr
Markus Friedl
(Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
2/13/13, 9:25 AM
The KEK-B machine and the Belle experiment in Tsukuba (Japan) are now undergoing an upgrade, leading to an ultimate luminosity of 8x10^35 cm-2 s-1 in order to measure rare decays in the B system with high statistics.
The previous vertex detector cannot cope with a 40-fold increase of luminosity and thus needs to be replaced. Belle II will be equipped with a two-layer Pixel Detector,...
Christian Irmler
(Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
2/13/13, 9:50 AM
B-factories like the KEK-B in Tsukuba, Japan, operate at relatively low energies and thus require detectors with very low material budget in order to minimize multiple scattering. On the other hand, front-end chips with short shaping time like the APV25 have to be placed as close to the sensor strips as possible to reduce the capacitive load, which mainly determines the noise figure.
In order...
Arno Richard Knapitsch
(CERN)
2/13/13, 9:50 AM
One of the problems in heavy scintillating materials is related to their high index of refraction. As a consequence, a large part of the scintillation light produced in the bulk material is trapped inside the crystal due to total internal reflection. Recent developments in the area of nanophotonics were showing now that those limitations can be overcome by introducing a photonic crystal slab...
Davide Caforio
(Universita e INFN (IT))
2/13/13, 9:50 AM
Talk
LUCID is a gas Cerenkov detector deployed near to the beam‐pipe at 17 m either side of the ATLAS Intersection point. The LUCID detector ‐ when calibrated via a Van der Meer scan – is now measuring absolute luminosity on a bunch‐by‐bunch basis. It is now measuring integrated luminosity up to high luminosity with a precision of around 3%. The technical challenges that had to faced to make this...
Mr
Akira Suzuki
(Institute for Materials Research)
2/13/13, 10:15 AM
Recently, we have developed a novel oxide scintillator (La,Gd)_2Si_2O_7 (La-GPS) crystal doped with 1-mol\% Ce grown by floating zone method. This crystal had excellent scintillation properties measured with a photomultiplier (PMT, Hamamatsu R7600U): a high light output of approximately 36,000 photons/MeV, good energy resolution (FWHM) of 5.0\% at 662 keV and fast decay time of 46 ns....
Manfred Valentan
(HEPHY Vienna)
2/13/13, 10:15 AM
High precision collider experiments at lepton accelerators and b-factories need highly accurate position resolution while preserving a low material budget for precise particle tracking. Thin double-sided silicon detectors (DSSDs) fulll both requirements, if a careful sensor
design is applied to preserve a high charge collection effciency.
In this continuation of a previous study we...
Prof.
Yoshiyuki Fukuda
(Faculyu of Education, Miyagi University of Education)
2/13/13, 11:30 AM
An organic liquid scintillator containing zirconium complex was studied for neutrinosless double beta decay. We have synthesized tetrakis(8-quinolinolate) zirconium as a complex and found their good solubility (2 w.t.%) in Benzonitrile, which has good light yield of primary scintillation for gamma-rays. The photo-luminescence was measured, and the maximum peak was found around 548nm. We made...
Patrizia Cenci
(INFN Perugia (IT))
2/13/13, 11:30 AM
Talk
NA62 is the last generation kaon experiment at CERN. Its main goal is to collect about 100 K+→π+νν events with 10% background. This implies to collect 10^13 K+ decays with a backgound rejection factor of at least 10^12. The challenging aspect of the experiment is the suppression of K decays with branching ratio up to 10 orders of magnitude higher than the signal and similar experimental...
Dr
Serhiy Senyukov
(Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (FR))
2/13/13, 11:30 AM
ALICE is a general purpose experiment dedicated to the study of nucleus-nucleus collisions at LHC. After more than 3 years of successful operation, an upgrade of the apparatus during the second long shutdown of LHC (LS2) in 2017/18 is under study. One of the major goal of the proposed upgrade is to extend the physics reach for rare probes at low transverse momentum. The current Inner...
Nicola Pozzobon
(Universita e INFN (IT))
2/13/13, 11:55 AM
Over the next decade, several upgrades in the LHC and its injector chain will eventually increase the luminosity by up to a factor of 10 compared to the original design figure of 1034 cm-2s-1. In order to cope with the large number of interactions per bunch crossing, a novel tracking system for the CMS experiment will be designed and built. The new tracker will also provide information to the...
Antonello Di Mauro
(CERN)
2/13/13, 11:55 AM
Talk
The Very High Momentum Particle Identification (VHMPID) detector has been proposed as upgrade for the ALICE experiment at LHC to extend charged hadron track-by-track identification in the momentum range 5-25 GeV/c. It is a RICH counter with focusing geometry using pressurized perfluorobutane (C4F8O) as Cherenkov radiator. Three options are currently being investigated for the photon detector:...
Marko Dragicevic
(Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
2/13/13, 12:20 PM
Most modern particle physics experiments use silicon based sensors for their tracking systems. These sensors are able to detect particles generated in high energy collisions with high spatial resolution and therefore allow the precise reconstruction of particle tracks. So far only a few vendors were capable of producing silicon strip sensors with the quality needed in particle physics...
Mr
Sergey Kononov
(Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)
2/13/13, 12:20 PM
Talk
FARICH is a modern RICH detector based on variable refractive index 'focusing' aerogel. Silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) can be successfully employed in large RICH detectors due to their potentially low costs, compactness and immunity to magnetic field. Recently Philips has developed a digital silicon photomultiplier (dSiPM) by integrating readout electronics on the same chip as the array of...
Dr
Luca Pattavina
(I.N.F.N. Milano-Bicocca)
2/13/13, 12:20 PM
The first idea of using a scintillating bolometer was suggested for solar neutrino experiments in 1989. After many years of developments, now we are able to exploit this experimental technique, based on the calorimetric approach with cryogenic particle detectors, to investigate rare events such as Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and interaction of Dark Matter candidates.
The possibility to...
Francesco Dettori
(NIKHEF (NL))
2/14/13, 9:00 AM
Talk
The status and performance of the LHCb detector during the physics LHC physics run is described.
The LHCb detector has a number of notable features including: 12 micron resolution in the transverse plane on 30-35 track primary vertices, pion and kaon separation from 1 to 100 GeV, and 1 MHz full readout of all sub-systems. The detector is being operating at twice its design Luminosity and the...
Igor Mandic
(Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))
2/14/13, 9:00 AM
It is foreseen to significantly increase the luminosity of the LHC by upgrading towards the HL-LHC (High Luminosity LHC) in order to harvest the maximum physics potential. Especially the PhaseII-Upgrade foreseen for 2021 will mean unprecedented radiation levels. All-silicon central trackers are being studied in ATLAS, CMS and LHCb, with extremely radiation hard silicon sensors to be employed...
Prof.
Robert Klanner
(Hamburg University)
2/14/13, 9:25 AM
The high intensity and high repetition rate of XFEL, the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser presently under construction in Hamburg, results in X-ray doses of up to 1 GGy in pixel sensors for 3 years of operation. Within the AGIPD Collaboration the Hamburg group has systematically studied X-ray damage using test structures and segmented sensors fabricated on high-ohmic n-type silicon. MOS...
Julie Malcles
(CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR))
2/14/13, 9:25 AM
Talk
The signature of the two-photon decay of a low-mass Higgs boson is a narrow resonance, smeared by the photon energy resolution, over a large continuum background. The excellent energy resolution and photon identification capabilities of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) at the LHC enhance the experimental sensitivity to this decay mode. The ECAL is a hermetic, fine grained and...
Prof.
Richard WIGMANS
(Texas Tech University)
2/14/13, 9:50 AM
Talk
Simultaneous detection of the Cherenkov light and scintillation light produced in hadron showers makes it possible to measure the electromagnetic shower fraction event by event and thus eliminate the detrimental effects of fluctuations in this fraction on the performance of hadron calorimeters.
In the RD52 (DREAM) project, the possibilities of this dual-readout calorimetry are investigated...
Alexandra Junkes
(Brown University)
2/14/13, 9:50 AM
The CMS tracker collaboration has initiated a large material investigation and irradia- tion campaign to identify the silicon material and design that fulfills all requirements for detectors for the high luminosity phase of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC).
A variety of silicon p − in − n and n − in − p test-sensors made from Float Zone (FZ), Magnetic Czochralski (MCz) and epitaxially grown...
Jeremy Rouene
(Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))
2/14/13, 10:15 AM
Talk
The CALICE collaboration is preparing large scale prototypes for highly granular calorimeters for detectors to be operated at a future linear electron positron collider. After several beam campaigns at DESY, CERN and FNAL, the CALICE collaboration has demonstrated the principle of highly granular electromagnetic calorimeters with a first prototype called physics prototype. The next prototype,...
Wolfgang Treberer-Treberspurg
(Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
2/14/13, 10:15 AM
In most High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments tracking and vertexing is realized by silicon detectors. Sensors, which are foreseen to be used at future collider experiments like the HL-LHC are exposed to a very challenging radiation environment. Due to radiation induced lattice defects the effective doping concentration of such sensors crucially changes and additional energy levels inside the...
Dr
Stefano De Capua
(University of Manchester (GB))
2/14/13, 11:30 AM
LHCb is a dedicated experiment to study New Physics in the decays of heavy hadrons at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Heavy hadrons are identified through their flight distance in the VELO, the retractable silicon-strip vertex detector surrounding the LHCb interaction point at only 7 mm from the beam during normal LHC operation.
Both VELO halves comprise 21 silicon micro-strip modules each....
Nural Akchurin
(Texas Tech University (US))
2/14/13, 11:30 AM
Talk
The signals from a high-Z scintillating crystal (BSO) are studied to characterize Cherenkov light polarization and to measure the longitudinal polarization profile of Cherenkov light in electromagnetic showers. The scintillation and Cherenkov lights can be separated by making use of the fact that the latter is polarized in the context of dual-readout calorimetry. In addition, this unique...
Ruslan Asfandiyarov
(Universite de Geneve (CH))
2/14/13, 11:55 AM
Talk
The Electron-Muon Ranger (EMR) is a totally active scintillator detector to be installed in the muon beam of the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) - the main R&D project for the future neutrino factory. It is aimed at measuring properties of low energy beam composed of muons, electrons and pions performing the identification particle by particle. The EMR is made of 48 intersecting...
Rudolf Fruhwirth
(Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
2/14/13, 11:55 AM
Successful track reconstruction in a silicon tracking device depends on the quality of the alignment, on the knowledge of the sensor resolution, and on the knowledge of the amount of material traversed by the particles. We describe algorithms for the concurrent estimation of alignment parameters, sensor resolutions and material thickness in the context of a test-beam setup. They are based on...
Alessandro Rossi
(INFN Perugia)
2/14/13, 12:20 PM
Talk
The SuperB project is an asymmetric e+e− accelerator of 10^36cm−2s−1 design luminosity, capable of collecting a data sample of 75 ab−1 in five years running. The SuperB electromagnetic calorimeter (EMC) provides energy and direction measurement of photons and electrons, and is used for identification of electrons versus other charged particles. In particular we present its design, geometry...
Jakob Lettenbichler
(Institute of High Energy Physics, Vienna)
2/14/13, 12:20 PM
We present software based on novel techniques, developed for track finding in silicon trackers with a small number of layers. The core algorithm is a cellular automaton, followed by a Kalman filter and Hopfield neural network. We present results from two test cases. The first one is the Forward Tracking Detector (FTD) of the International Large Detector (ILD) at a future linear collider, which...
Niklaus Berger
(Uni Heidelberg)
2/14/13, 2:00 PM
Talk
The Mu3e experiment searches for the lepton flavour violating decay μ+→e+e-e+, aiming for a branching fraction sensitivity of 10-16. This requires an excellent momentum resolution for low energy electrons, high rate capability and a large acceptance. In order to minimize multiple scattering, the amount of material has to be as small as possible. These challenges can be met with a tracker built...
Dr
Jorge A. Neves
(LIP - Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics, Lisbon, Portugal)
2/14/13, 2:00 PM
Talk
We present a feasibility study of the ClearPEM technology for simultaneous PET-MR imaging. The basic ClearPEM detector module is composed of 12 LYSO:Ce crystal matrices, each with 4x8 individual crystals (2x2x20mm3) optically coupled on both ends to S8550 hamamatsu APD arrays that are read out by two front-end boards. Each board integrates two low-noise ASICs of 192 channels each for APD...
Benjamin Armand Frisch
(CERN)
2/14/13, 2:25 PM
Talk
Prostate cancer is the second most frequently diagnosed cancer in males. Pancreas cancer, on the other hand, is among the deadliest cancers. Both require advanced imaging techniques for their diagnosis and staging. The endoTOFPET-US collaboration develops a multimodal imaging technique for endoscopic exams. It combines the benefits of high resolution metabolic imaging with Time-Of-Flight...
Jerome Baudot
(Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (FR))
2/14/13, 2:25 PM
Talk
CMOS pixel sensors (CPS) with a column parallel read-out architecture and developed in a 0.35 um technology have already met the requirements of several high energy projects (EUDET, STAR-HFT, ILC) where spatial resolution and material budget govern the specifications. The full potential of CPS is however not yet reached, and can answer the demand of future vertex detectors (ALICE, SuperB, eIC)...
Dr
Franco Garibaldi
(INFN Roma1)
2/14/13, 2:50 PM
Talk
Prostate Carcinoma, is a heterogeneous disease, asymptomatic to rapidly systemic malignancy. Standard techniques cannot detect early disease. An endorectal PET-TOF MRI probe would solve the problem. The internal probe has to be used in coincidence with external dedicated detectors and/or a standard PET. The performance of the probe dominates, with improvement in spatial resolution and...
Dr
Toshinobu Miyoshi
(High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))
2/14/13, 2:50 PM
Talk
Truly monolithic pixel detectors were fabricated with 0.2 um SOI pixel process technology by collaborating with LAPIS Semiconductor Co., Ltd. for particle tracking experiment, X-ray imaging and medical application. CMOS circuits were fabricated on a thin SOI layer and connected to diodes formed on the silicon handle wafer through the buried oxide layer. We can choose the handle wafer and...
erik ramberg
(Fermilab)
2/14/13, 3:15 PM
Talk
For several years, Fermilab has been heavily involved in the development of novel 3-dimensional analog and digital ASIC circuits. These devices consist of thinned wafer layers with circuits bonded to each other to act as monolithic forms. Communication between the layers and across the stacks is achieved with micron-size through-silicon-vias. Enabling a new dimension in integrated circuits...
Kim-Eigard Hines
(University of Oslo)
2/14/13, 3:15 PM
Talk
COMPET is a pre-clinical MRI compatible PET scanner which decouples sensitivity and resolution by the use of a novel detector design. The detector is built using square 8 × 8 cm layers consisting of 30 LYSO crystals interleaved with 24 Wavelength shifting fibers (WLS). By stacking several layers into a module, the point-of-interaction (POI) can be measured in 3D. Four layers forms a PET ring...
Peter Krizan
(Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))
2/14/13, 4:30 PM
Talk
A time-of-flight positron emission tomography (TOF PET) prototype apparatus, based on the principles of Cherenkov photon detection, was tested in experiments with a simple phantom. The time resolution obtained with such a system was 116 ps FWHM, with the single detector efficiency of 4.3%. Such excellent time resolution enabled a very fast image reconstruction algorithm to achieve results...
Dr
Gianluca Traversi
(University of Bergamo)
2/14/13, 4:30 PM
Talk
This work presents the characterization of Deep N-Well (DNW) active pixel sensors fabricated in a vertically integrated technology. The DNW approach takes advantage of the triple well structure to lay out a sensor with relatively large charge collecting area (as compared to standard three transistor MAPS), while the readout is performed by a classical signal processing chain for capacitive...
Matteo Morrocchi
(University of Pisa / Infn Pisa)
2/14/13, 4:55 PM
Talk
The 4DM-PET experiment aims to develop an innovative detector module for PET applications. The device is composed of a continuous LYSO scintillator crystal coupled to two SiPM matrices on its top and bottom surfaces. The peculiarity in using a continuous crystal is the ability to reconstruct the Depth of Interaction of the 511 keV photons generated by the annihilation of the positrons emitted...
Prof.
Lawrence Pinsky
(University of Houston (US))
2/14/13, 5:20 PM
Talk
A talk was given at the last VCI demonstrating the capabilities of the pixel detector technology developed by the CERN-based Medipix2 Collaboration and outlining the plans to develop dosimeters and radiation area monitors for use in characterizing space radiation. In the interim, a number of devices have been sent to the International Space Station and are being used to obtain operating these...
Carlo Civinini
(Universita e INFN (IT))
2/14/13, 5:20 PM
Talk
Proton Computed Tomography (pCT) is an imaging technique based on the use of proton beams with kinetic energies above 200 MeV to directly measure stopping power (SP) distributions inside the tissue volume. PRIMA (PRoton IMAging) is an italian collaboration working on the development of a pCT scanner based on a tracker and a calorimeter to measure single protons trajectory and residual energy....
Dr
Ronaldo Bellazzini
(INFN-Pisa and PIXIRAD IMAGING COUNTERS srl)
2/14/13, 5:45 PM
Talk
An innovative X-ray imaging sensor with intrinsic digital characteristics is presented. It is based on Chromatic Photon Counting technology. The detector is able to count
individually the incident X-ray photons and to separate them according to their energy (two'color' images per exposure). The energy selection occurs in real time and at radiographic imaging speed (GHz global counting rate)....
Andrea Ventura
(Univ. + INFN)
2/14/13, 5:45 PM
Talk
The ATLAS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) deploys three-levels processing scheme for the trigger system. The level-1 muon trigger system gets its input from fast muon trigger detectors. Fast sector logic boards select muon candidates, which are passed via an interface board to the central trigger processor and then to the High Level Trigger (HLT). The muon HLT is purely...
Dr
Jose Repond
(Argonne National Laboratory)
2/15/13, 9:50 AM
Talk
To fully exploit the physics potential of a future Lepton Collider will require unprecedented jet energy and (di)-mass resolution. To achieve this goal, detectors optimized for the application of Particle Flow Algorithms (PFAs) are being conceived. The application of PFAs requires calorimeters with very fine segementation of the readout, so-called imaging calorimeters.
This talk will review...
Petteri Pusa
(University of Liverpool (GB))
2/15/13, 10:15 AM
Talk
The principal aim of the ALPHA experiment at is to trap cold atomic antihydrogen and study it’s properties, and, ultimately, perform precision comparison between hydrogen and antihydrogen atomic spectra. Recently, several important milestones have been achieved, including long confinement of antihydrogen atoms and the first spectroscopic measurements done on the antihydrogen atoms.
The main...
Dr
Rok Pestotnik
(Jozef Stefan Institute)
2/15/13, 11:20 AM
Talk
For the Belle II spectrometer we are developing the proximity focusing RICH with aerogel as an radiator. It will be positioned in the small space between the drift chamber and the electromagnetic calorimeter inside a strong magnetic field of 1.5 T in the forward direction of the spectrometer and will enable the efficent separation of kaons from pions in the wide range of particle momenta...
Ms
Rachel Montgomery
(University of Glasgow)
2/15/13, 11:45 AM
Talk
The energy increase of Jefferson Laboratory's Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) to 12GeV promises to greatly extend the physics reach of its experiments. This will include an upgrade of the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) to CLAS12, offering unique possibilities to study internal nucleon dynamics. For this, excellent hadron identification over the full...
Dr
Richard Ott
(UC Davis)
2/15/13, 12:10 PM
Talk
Direct detection of WIMP dark matter (DM) requires highly sensitive, ultra-low background detectors, which maximize the target mass. The two-phase Time Projection Chamber (TPC) technique, employed by the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) detector, takes advantage of the anti-correlated scintillation and ionization properties of liquid Xe to achieve a projected sensitivity of DM-nucleon cross...
Jun Cao
(IHEP)
2/15/13, 2:00 PM
Invited Talk
In 2011 and 2012, the smallest neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ was determined to be unexpected large by reactor neutrino experiments Daya Bay, Double Chooz, and RENO, and accelerator experiments T2K and MINOS. The most precise measurement is $\sin^2 2\theta_{13}=0.089 \pm 0.010 (stat.) \pm 0.005 (syst.)$, provided by Daya Bay. The measurement of $\theta_{13}$ opened the gateway to the...
Qiang Du
(Tsinghua University)
2/15/13, 2:50 PM
Talk
Aiming to high sensitivity and wide spectrum of cosmic ray detection, the one-square km complex detector array (KM2A) of Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) project consists of 5631 electron detectors, 1221 muon detectors, spreading over 1.2 square km. To precisely reconstruct the air shower events with high angular resolution, all detector electronics and digitizers should...
Carlo Canali
(Universitaet Zuerich (CH)), Dr
James Storey
(Universitaet Zuerich (CH))
2/15/13, 3:55 PM
Talk
The AEgIS experiment is an international collaboration with the goal of performing the first direct measurement of the earth’s gravitational acceleration on antimatter. Critical to the success of AEgIS is the production of cold antihydrogen (Hbar) atoms. The FACT detector will be used to measure the production and temperature of Hbar atoms and for establishing the formation of a beam. The...
Christian Joram
(CERN)
2/15/13, 4:20 PM
Talk
We have developed a fully operational PET demonstrator set-up which allows true 3D reconstruction of the 511 keV photons and therefore leads to practically parallax free images. The AX-PET concept is based on thin 100 mm long scintillation crystals (LYSO), axially oriented and arranged in layers around the field of view. Layers of wavelength shifting plastic strips mounted in between the...
Tetsuichi Kishishita
(University of Bonn)
Electronics
Poster
The design and the measurements of an 8-bit SAR ADC, based on a charge-redistribution DAC, developed for future hybrid pixel applications are presented.
This ADC is characterized by superior power efficiency and small area, realized by employing a lateral metal-metal capacitor array and a dynamic 2-stage comparator.
To avoid the need for a high-speed clock and its associated power...
Mr
Yifan Yang
(IIHE)
Astroparticle Detectors
Poster
The Askar’yan Radio Array (ARA) is an ultrahigh-energy neutrino telescope, currently under construction at the geographic South Pole.It is designed to detect GZK neutrinos (E > 100 PeV) by means of radiofrequency emission from electromagnetic cascades formed when these neutrinos interact with nuclei in the ice.The full array will contain 37 stations that cover 160 km2 surface area. Each...
Jan Soldat
(Heidelberg University)
Electronics
Poster
The DSSC (DEPFET Sensor with Signal Compression) consortium develops a 1MPixel detector for low energy X-rays at the European XFEL. The XFEL will produce 10 bursts per second, each containing 2880 X-ray pulses with a repetition rate of 4.5 MHz. X-ray photons of 0.5 − 6 keV are absorbed in hexagonal DEPFET pixels of 229 × 204 μm2 pitch with a nonlinear characteristic to achieve a high dynamic...
Dr
Alexandre Dychkant
(Northern Illinois University, USA)
Medical Applications
Poster
We present a status of detector for proton computing tomography project using scintillating fiber trackers and a scintillator stack. The area of range stack is about 27cm by 36cm. It consists of 96 scintillating tiles of 3.2mm thickness readout with 1.2 mm diameter Y11 Kuraray WLS fibers connected to 192 silicon photo detectors. Extensive research for optimization light output and uniformity...
João Veloso
(I3N, Physics Department, University of Aveiro)
Medical Applications
Poster
A concept of a Compton Camera (CC) based on a High Pressure Electroluminescence Chamber coupled to a position sensitive Gaseous PhotoMultiplier (GPM) for Nuclear Medical Imaging (NMI), is proposed.
A Compton Camera presents a different solution of the Gamma Camera (GC) as it provides position and energy information about the incoming photon via electronic “collimator”, instead of the use of...
Christina Weiss
(Vienna University of Technology (AT))
Semiconductor Detectors
Poster
At the n_TOF experiment at CERN a dedicated detector, which consists of an array of 9 sCVD diamond detectors, has been developed for (n,a) cross-section measurements. The detector has been characterized and a first cross-section measurement has been performed for the 59Ni(n,a)56Fe reaction in 2012. The characteristics of the detector, its performance during the cross-section measurement and...
Ivan Vila Alvarez
(Universidad de Cantabria (ES))
Semiconductor Detectors
Poster
In the context of the future silicon-based particle tracking systems for the International Linear Collider, we introduce a novel 2D position-sensitive microstrip detector where the resistive charge division method was implemented by replacing the metallic electrodes with slightly resistive electrodes made of polycrystalline silicon. A characterization of two proof-of-concept prototypes with...
Joaquin Esteban Rodriguez Carunchio
(Universidad de Valencia (ES)),
Joaquin Rodriguez
(D+T Barcelona)
Electronics
Poster
A test beam telescope has been built using the ALIBAVA system to drive its data acquisition. The basic telescope planes consist in four XYT stations. Each station is built from a detector board with two 80-micron-pitch sensors, mounted one in each side and their strips crossing at 90 degrees. The ensemble is coupled to an ALIBAVA daughter board. These stations act as reference frame and allow...
Dr
Alessandro Berra
(Universita dell'Insubria & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))
Electronics
Poster
In recent years Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) have been proposed as a new type of readout system for scintillating detectors in many experiments. SiPMs consist of a matrix of parallel-connected silicon micro-pixels, which are independent photon counters working in limited Geiger mode with very high gain ($\sim$10$^6$). This contribution presents the use of SiPMs (manufactured by FBK-irst)...
Prof.
J. T Rhee
(IAP, HEP Lab: Konkuk University, Seoul, KOREA)
Gaseous Detectors
Poster
In this work, we demonstrate the feasibility and characteristics of a single-gap parallel plate avalanche counter (PPAC) as low energy neutrons detector based on the Gd-converter coating. The incident low energy neutrons upon falling on the Gd-converter surface, produce internal conversion electrons, which are evaluated and detected. For estimating the performance of the Gd-based PPAC, a...
Prof.
Wolfgang Gradl
(University Mainz)
Gaseous Detectors
Poster
The Crystal Ball Collaboration at the electron accelerator MAMI in Mainz studies photo-induced reactions on nucleons and nuclei with energy tagged photons produced via bremsstrahlung. The Crystal Ball/TAPS calorimeters form a 4pi detector optimized for the detection of neutral final states. The inner detector system includes a two-layer multi-wire proportional chamber (MWPC) for the detection...
Ekaterina Shemyakina
(Novosibirsk State University and Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)
Gaseous Detectors
Poster
Two-phase Cryogenic Avalanche Detectors (CRADs) with THGEM multipliers have become an emerging technique for rare-event experiments. In this work we describe the performance of a two-phase CRAD in Ar with double-THGEM charge multiplier combined with a matrix of Geiger-mode APDs (GAPDs), optically recording THGEM avalanche signals in the Near Infrared (NIR) spectral range. The charge and light...
Dr
Nanae Taniguchi
(KEK)
Electronics
Poster
For the Belle-II experiment at KEK, a Central Drift Chamber (CDC) with a readout electronics are required to be upgraded to cope with the design luminosity of 8 x 10^35/cm^2s. The readout electronics system will be completely replaced.
The new readout electronics system must handle higher trigger rates with less dead time. The front-end electronics are located close to detector and send...
Prof.
Zbigniew Szadkowski
(University of Lodz)
Electronics
Poster
The electromagnetic part of an extensive air shower developing in the atmosphere provides significant information complementary to that obtained by water Cherenkov detectors which are predominantly sensitive to the muonic content of an air shower at ground. The emissions can be observed in the frequency band between 10 - 100 MHz. However, this frequency range is significantly contaminated by...
Mr
Koei Yamamoto
(HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.)
Electronics
Poster
Multi-Pixel Photon Counter (MPPC) is solid-state photon counting device using Geiger-mode APD with self-quenching resistor. The features of MPPC are low bias voltage operation, high gain, compactness, robustness and insensitive to magnetic field.
A Large-area MPPC is suitable for TOF-PEF and astrophysicists application. We have already developed a monolithic array which is consisted a 4x4...
Mr
Gaetano Barone
(Universite de Geneve (CH))
Semiconductor Detectors
Poster
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. The...
Dr
Hiroki Sato
(Materials Research Laboratory, Furukawa Co., Ltd.)
Medical Applications
Poster
In this report, a positron emission mammography (PEM) using a Pr:Lu3Al5O12 (LuAG) scintillator will be discussed. PET is modality of annihilation gamma-rays scanner and the PEM is a PET dedicated for breast cancer. We have developed a new PEM scanner with planer detectors. As the scanner angle and the distance between the pair of opposite detectors can be...
Javier Galan Lacarra
(CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR))
Gaseous Detectors
Poster
The use of resistive technologies to MPGD detectors is taking advantage for many new applications, including high rate and energetic particle flux scenarios. The recent use of these technologies in large area detectors makes necessary to understand and characterize the response of this type of detectors in order to optimize or constrain the parameters used in its production, material...
Dr
Hayk Hakobyan
(UTFSM), Mr
Orlando Soto
(UTFSM)
Electronics
Poster
The novel Hamamatsu Multi Pixel Photon Counter Array S12045(X) consists of an array of 3600 APD (avalanche photo diode) pixels, each one working in Limited Geiger mode with inverse bias voltage around 70[V]. The pixels are grouped into 16 independent electronic channels (16 MPPCs with 225 pixels each). We studied the main features of each channel on 2800 MPPC arrays, at different temperatures...
Mr
Mohamed Bouterfa
(Université catholique de Louvain)
Medical Applications
Poster
For precise treatment purposes in hadrontherapy, the particle beam has to be monitored in real time without being degraded. For the first time, silicon strip detectors have been fabricated over an area as large as 4.5cm x 4.5cm with ultra low thickness of 20µm. Ultra-thin detectors offer the following considerable advantages: a significantly reduced beam scattering, a higher radiation hardness...
Ms
Purba Bhattacharya
(Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India)
Gaseous Detectors
Poster
The bulk Micromegas detector is considered to be a promising candidate for building TPCs for several future experiments including the projected linear colliders. The novel production technique adapted for fabricating the bulk is particularly suited for compact and robust low mass detectors. The standard bulk with a spacing of 128 micron has already established itself as a good choice for its...
Prof.
Mani Tripathi
(University of California Davis (US))
Semiconductor Detectors
Poster
As detectors in HEP require increasingly complex assembly procedures, the availability of a wide variety of interconnect technologies provides more options for overcoming obstacles in generic R&D. I will present recent progress and challenges faced in various interconnect technologies: gold stud and double gold stud bonding, deposition and bonding of indium bumps, solder dispensing and...
Jessica Metcalfe
(Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
Electronics
Poster
We present here the measurements of the first prototype VMM1 ASIC designed at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 130 nm CMOS and fabricated in spring 2012. The 64-channel ASIC features a novel design for use with several types of micropattern gas detectors. The data driven system measures peak amplitude and timing information in tracking mode and first channel hit address in trigger mode....
Hyun-il Kim
(Y)
Medical Applications
Poster
Muon tomography can be utilized to detect high-density materials such as special nuclear material(SNM) and shielding board by traking the incoming and outgoing trajectories of muon. We designed a muon tomography system consisting of four detector modules. Each module is composed of a large-area plastic scintillator, wavelength shifting(WLS) fibers placed on the top and bottom of the...
Mr
Nicola Casali
(INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso)
Cherenkov Detectors
Poster
Bolometers have proven to be good detectors to search for rare processes because of their excellent energy resolution and for their extremely low intrinsic background. In this kind of experiments, the capability of discriminating the signal produced by the alpha particles represents an important aspect for the background reduction. One possibility for obtaining such a discrimination is...
Mr
Viesturs Veckalns
(LIP - Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics)
Medical Applications
Poster
The ClearPEM is a dedicated APD-based PET detector for high-resolution breast cancer imaging. The basic detector module is composed of 12 LYSO:Ce crystal matrices, each with 4x8 individual crystals (2x2x20mm3) optically coupled on both ends to S8550 Hamamatsu APD arrays for the scintillation light readout.
In the present design, the sensitive area corresponding to the LYSO:Ce crystals is...
Guillaume Nasser
(IRAP CNRS),
Karine Lacombe
(IRAP CNRS)
Semiconductor Detectors
Poster
ECLAIRs, a 2D coded-mask imaging telescope on the Sino-French SVOM space mission, will detect and locate GRBs between 4 and 150 keV. The detector array is an assembly of 6400 Schottky CdTe semiconductor detectors of size 4x4x1 mm3, biased from -100V to -600V and operated at -20°C to minimize the leakage current and maximize the polarization time due to Schottky barrier lowering. The remarkable...
Martina Bucciantonio
(TERA Foundation (IT))
Medical Applications
Poster
We describe the development of a Proton Range Radiography system with an imaging area of 30x30 cm2 for two dimensional mapping of the integrated density in a target.
Proton transmission radiographic images are produced by measuring with a pair of position-sensitive detectors (GEM chambers) the direction of the protons transmitted through the patient, and with a stack of scintillators the...
Kaori Hattori
(High Energy Acceleration Research Organization)
Astroparticle Detectors
Poster
The POLARBEAR-2 Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiment aims to observe B-mode polarization with high sensitivity to explore gravitational lensing of CMB and inflationary gravitational waves. We will build a receiver that has 7,588 antenna-coupled, polarization sensitive Transition Edge Sensor (TES) bolometers. The kilopixel arrays of multi-band polarization-sensitive pixels are necessary...
Mr
Yusuke Komatsu
(University of Tokyo)
Gaseous Detectors
Poster
The J-PARC E16 experiment measures the mass modification of phi meson in nuclear matter at J-PARC high-momentum beam line to study an origin of hadron mass. The tracking detector of the experiment is composed of three layers of position sensitive devices that employ 10 cm x 10 cm, 20 cm x 20 cm and 30 cm x 30 cm Gas Electron Multipliers (GEMs) and two-dimensional readout boards. Required...
Prof.
Akira Yoshikawa
(Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University)
Scintillating Detectors
Poster
High-light-output and good-energy-resolution scintillators are required in various fields. Ce:LaBr_3 has recently been proposed and showed a high light output of \sim 60,000 ph./MeV; however, it has strongly hygroscopic and a smaller effective-atomic-number of 46.9 than other scintillators with that of more than 50, typically. A Ce:Lu_2SiO_5 (Ce:LSO) scintillator is chemically stable and has a...
Yoshiaki Kibe
(Okayama University)
Astroparticle Detectors
Poster
Primordial gravitational waves generated by inflation have produced an odd-parity pattern "B-mode" in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization. LiteBIRD (Light satellite for the studies of B-mode polarization and Inflation from cosmic background Radiation Detection) aims at detecting this B-mode polarization precisely. It requires about 2000 detectors capable of detecting a frequency...
Dr
Mitsuhiro Kimura
(Universitaet Bern (CH))
Miscellaneous
Poster
The goal of the AEgIS experiment (CERN AD-6) is a test of the Weak Equivalence Principle for antimatter. We will measure the earth's gravitational acceleration g on antihydrogen atoms that have been launched in a horizontal vacuum tube. A position sensitive detector will detect their annihilation at the end of the tube. The goal is to determine g with a 1% accuracy. The University of Bern...
Prof.
Wataru Ootani
(ICEPP, University of Tokyo)
Scintillating Detectors
Poster
The MEG experiment is searching for the lepton flavour decay, $\mu^+ \to e^+ \gamma$, with an unprecedented sensitivity.
We plan to upgrade the experiment to search for the decay down to a branching ratio sensitivity of around $5\times10^{-14}$, which would improve the sensitivity goal of the current experiment by one order of magnitude.
A pixelated scintillation detector is under...
Dr
Yuji Kishimoto
(High Energy Accelerator Research Organization)
Medical Applications
Poster
Radiation effects on human body are evaluated using dose equivalent H, defined as a product of an absorbed dose D and a quality factor Q given as a function of LET. In space, there exist many kinds of cosmic radiations, where primary charged particles and neutrons generated secondarily are the main components contributing to radiation dose. Since LET of these radiations widely distributes, it...
Dr
Shunsuke Kurosawa
(Tohoku University)
Cherenkov Detectors
Poster
Cherenkov counter is used in High Energy Physics or Nuclear Physics, and it is expected to be applied to medical imaging. Time-of-flight Positron emission tomography (TOF-PET) is one of the next-generation medical imaging methods, and a scintillator with a fast decay time is required. However, fast scintillation decay times are typically 10 - 30 nsec, and this order is not sufficient for...
Dr
Maurizio Boscardin
(FBK, CMM, Via Sommarive 18, I-38123 Povo (Trento), Italy)
Semiconductor Detectors
Poster
This paper reports the development of a novel p-on-n thin edgeless planar sensor for a hybrid pixel detector, compatible with the ALICE front-end electronics, fabricated by FBK-CMM on epitaxial material. The aim of this development is to manufacture a hybrid pixel detector of very low material budget compared to the state-of-the-art of such devices. This task has been carried on following a...
Ivan Alexandrov
(ITEP)
Gaseous Detectors
Poster
A concept of readout of noble gas two-phase emission detectors by means of multipixel avalanche Geiger photodiodes (MGPDs or SiPMs) and a THGEM structure is presented.
It is well known that a two-phase emission technique with noble gases is a very sensitive method of detection of very small ionisation signals (down to few or single ionisation electrons). Electroluminescent “amplification”...
Dr
Miguel Ullan Comes
(Universidad de Valencia (ES))
Semiconductor Detectors
Poster
In the ATLAS SCT modules there is a large pitch dissimilarity between detector and chip pads. The adaptation is made via glass plates with metal tracks named pitch adapters (PA). Our new approach for the ATLAS Tracker Upgrade prototypes is using a second metal layer in the sensor fabrication to implement PA built in the detector to overcome the pitch dissimilarity and avoid the use of a...
Martin Hejtmanek
(Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ))
Electronics
Poster
Radiation hardness and stability of detection properties are critical parameters in applications of semiconductor radiation detectors.
The 0.25 um CMOS technology provides high degree of inherent radiation hardness to displacement and ionization damage.
The active volumes of sensor and readout chip are insensitive to the ionization damage effects, contrary to the SiO2 insulating layers. The...
Mr
Thomas Conneely
(Photek LTD)
Electronics
Poster
Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) coating of Microchannel Plates (MCP) has been shown to offer significant performance advantages MCP-PMTs. ALD is a chemical process used to deposit atomic mono-layers on a substrate. A process has been developed to deposit a surface with improved secondary emission yield on to a MCP substrate. The principal advantage of a higher SEY is the ability to achieve...
otmar biebel
(Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Gaseous Detectors
Poster
Floating strip Micromegas detectors are a novel concept, simple in construction and reliably to manufacture. All materials used are intrinsically radiation resistant such these detectors are expected to be applicable under extremely high background radiation conditions. The presentation reports on measurement of spatial and temporal resolution and its homogeneity across the detector surface of...
Lauren Alexandra Tompkins
(University of Chicago (US))
Electronics
Poster
The LHC experiments are preparing for instantaneous luminosities above $1 \times 10^{34} cm^{-2}s^{-1}$ as early as 2015. In order to select the rare events of interest in such dense environments, detailed event information is necessary. In particular, the highly granular single particle information of tracking detectors is crucial for the selection of isolated leptons, taus and b-jets in the...
Carlo Cazzaniga
(University of Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy)
Scintillating Detectors
Poster
The goal of ITER, the next generation tokamak, is to obtain and control fusion plasmas with high thermonuclear output power, in order to demonstrate the feasibility of a commercial fusion reactor. In this context nuclear radiation diagnostics, such as neutron and γ-ray spectroscopy, will play a crucial role. Gamma ray spectroscopy is a diagnostic of fast ions and of the confined fusion alpha...
Gabriele Croci
(Isitituto di Fisica del Plasma - CNR - Milano)
Gaseous Detectors
Poster
The development of new neutron instrumentation and facilities is held back by the well-known problem of 3He shortage. The research of reliable substitutes is an important task for the affordability of new neutron scattering instrumentation for future spallation sources like ESS. In the framework of the development of the European Spallation Source (ESS) the GEM (Gas Electron Multiplier) is one...
Giulia Casarosa
(Sezione di Pisa (IT))
Electronics
Poster
Physics and high background conditions set very challenging requests on readout speed, low material budget and resolution for the innermost layer (the Layer0) of the SuperB Silicon Vertex Tracker operated at the full luminosity.
Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors are very appealing in this application because the thin sensitive region allows grinding the substrate to tens of microns.
Deep...
Stefan Enrico Brunner
(Austrian Acadamy of Sciences)
Medical Applications
Poster
Advances in detector technology led to the construction of commercial time of flight (TOF) positron emission tomography (PET) devices, resulting in enhanced image contrast, lower patient's dose and shorter examination times. Commercial TOF-PET scanners with coincidence time resolutions of 500-600 ps FWHM are already available. Goal of this work is the improvement of time resolution for TOF-PET...
Mr
David Nygren
(LBNL)
Astroparticle Detectors
Invited Talk
Gaseous detectors enter their second century of duty in elementary particle and nuclear physics with undiminished versatility and promise. Although partially eclipsed in the LHC era of high luminosity, new varieties of gas-based systems and TPCs have emerged, and truly new ideas are on the drawing board. In this short talk, I look back briefly to the earliest beginnings to illustrate...
Dr
Carlos Maximiliano Mollo
(INFN)
Electronics
Poster
Light detection through photosensitive devices represents one of the key issues for a large variety of experiments.
In the recent years, Pixelated Photon Detectors (PPDs) based on limited Geiger-mode avalanche have been extensively studied in view of their future applications.
However, their use is strongly limited by their small sensitive surfaces and by the fact that any increment in the...
Neal David Hartman
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
Semiconductor Detectors
Poster
Detector structural design is governed by competing demands of reducing mass while maximizing stability and accuracy. These demands can only be met by fiber reinforced composite laminates. As detecting sensors and electronics become lower mass, the motivation to reduce structure as a proportion of overall mass pushes modern detector structures to the minimum limits of composite ply...
Prof.
Fuyuki Tokanai
(Yamagata University)
Gaseous Detectors
Poster
A new glass ceramic plate (GCP) has been developed for a hole-type micropattern gas detector (MPGD). The material of the GP is crystallized photosensitive etching glass (PEG3C) made by HOYA CORP. The micropattern is structured in the glass by ultraviolet photolithography through a photomask. The PEG3C has greater bending strength than conventional glass, allowing one to form microstructures in...
Lior Arazi
(Weizmann Institute of Science)
Gaseous Detectors
Poster
Thick Gas Electron Multipliers (THGEMs) have the potential of constituting robust sampling elements in Digital Hadron Calorimetry (DHCAL), in future HEP Colliders like the ILC. We report on the properties of novel, most promising single- and double-THGEM structures, with multipliers mounted in a WELL configuration on top a segmented resistive layer coupled to readout pads; the overall...
Dr
Marcello Abbrescia
(Bari Physics Department and INFN)
Gaseous Detectors
Poster
The Resistive Plate Chambers are used in CMS as dedicated muon trigger detectors in both barrel and endcap regions. They also contribute to the identification, reconstruction and tracking of the muons, together with Drift tube in the barrel and Cathod Strip Chambers in the endcaps.
We will report about the operations and performance of the system after two years of LHC activities with...
Konstantin Beloborodov
Cherenkov Detectors
Poster
For experiments with the SND detector at the electron-positron collider VEPP-2000 a new particle identification system is designed, constructed, and put into operation. The system is designed for the separation of π and K mesons up to particle energy of 1 GeV, in the case of dense aerogel with a refractive index n = 1.13, and e/π-separation energy up to 0.45 GeV, in the case of the aerogel...
Lorenzo Paolozzi
(Universita e INFN Roma Tor Vergata (IT))
Gaseous Detectors
Poster
The upgrade of present and future experiments in particle physics at high luminosity colliders will require a level one trigger of high selectivity and robustness in order to cope with the very heavy background levels. This selectivity requires detectors with very good space and time resolution operating at high rate.
We present in this paper the latest developments of the RPC detectors...
Dr
Hubert Kroha
(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik)
Gaseous Detectors
Poster
The performance of pressurized drift-tube chambers at very high background counting rates has been studied at the Gamma Irradiation Facility (GIF) at CERN and in an intense 20 MeV proton beam at the Munich Van-der-Graaf tandem accelerator for applications as large-area precision muon tracking detectors at high-luminosity upgrades of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The present ATLAS muon...
Yuri Gotra
(Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Lab)
Semiconductor Detectors
Poster
For the 12 GeV upgrade, the CLAS12 experiment has designed a Silicon Vertex Tracker (SVT) using single sided microstrip sensors fabricated by Hamamatsu. The sensors have graded angle design to minimize dead areas and a readout pitch of 156 μm, with intermediate strip. Double sided SVT module hosts three daisy-chained sensors on each side with total strip length of 33 cm. There are 512 channels...
Malte Hildebrandt
(Paul Scherrer Institut)
Gaseous Detectors
Poster
The MEG experiment searches for the lepton flavour violating decay mue → e + gamma and is located at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) in Switzerland. The analysis of the combined data sample from 2009 and 2010 gives an upper limit of 2.4•10-12 (90% C.L.) on the branching ratio which is the most stringent limit up to date.
The drift chamber system is designed to ensure precision measurements...
Edward Overton
(The University of Sheffield)
Scintillating Detectors
Poster
The International Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment (MICE) is a proof of principle demonstration of ionisation cooling, for application in a future neutrino factory or muon collider. MICE is under construction at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK), where a dedicated beam line has been commissioned to transport particles produced inside the ISIS accelerator facility.
The beam emittance...
Dr
Daniele Vivolo
(Università degli Studi di Napoli - "Federico II " and INFN Naples)
Electronics
Poster
VSiPMT (Vacuum Silicon PhotoMultiplier Tube) is an innovative hybrid photon detector suggested by our group in order to combine the performances and the potential of PPD technology with a hemispherical glass PMT standard envelope. Our purpose is to combine the key features of a PPD (high quantum efficiency, low operation voltages, insensitivity to magnetic fields and robustness) with the large...
Michal Koziel
(Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE))
Electronics
Poster
The Compressed Baryonic Matter Experiment (CBM) is one of the core experiments of the future FAIR facility at Darmstadt/Germany. The fixed-target experiment will explore the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter in the regime of highest net baryon densities with numerous probes, among them open charm. Open charm reconstruction requires a vacuum compatible Micro Vertex Detector (MVD)...
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Pulse shape discrimination at low energies with a double sided silicon low pitch strip detector
Bernard Genolini
(IN2P3 - CNRS - Université Paris Sud)
Semiconductor Detectors
Poster
We achieved particle separation of proton, deuterium and tritium at energies ranging between 2 and 10 MeV by the processing of digitized signals obtained with a double-sided silicon 485-µm pitch strip detector. Light charged particles were produced in a nuclear reaction induced by a 34-MeV beam of 7Li impinging on a 12C target. We employed a neutron transmutation doped (nTD) 500-µm thick...
Simeone Dussoni
(I)
Gaseous Detectors
Poster
The FOXFIRE project aims at the realization of a Liquid Xenon TPC devoted to high rate medium energy particle physics experiments. Liquid Xenon has several attractive properties to be exploited in the detection of particles in the 10-100MeV energy range with superior time and energy resolution, by using the scintillation light read out with suitable photo-detectors. A complementary approach...
Dr
Lucia Canonica
(INFN - LNGS, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso)
Astroparticle Detectors
Poster
Thermal detectors have recently achieved a leading role in the fields of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and Dark Matter searches thanks to their excellent energy resolution and to the wide choice of absorber materials. In these fields the background coming from surface contaminations is frequently dominant.
We propose a scintillation-based approach for tagging this type of background and...
Xiangzun WANG
(Atominstitut, TU Wien)
Miscellaneous
Poster
We propose a new type of momentum spectrometer, which uses the RxB drift effect to disperse the charged particles in a uniformly curved magnetic field, and measures the particles with large phase space acceptance and high resolution. This kind of RxB spectrometer is designed for the momentum analyses of the decay electrons and protons in the PERC (Proton and Electron Radiation Channel) beam...
Alessandro Mapelli
(CERN)
Semiconductor Detectors
Poster
Future silicon trackers target a drastic material budget reduction while requiring highly effective cooling and mechanical stability. Through standard micro-fabrication processes, it is possible to produce ultra-thin thermal management devices tailored to specific applications and largely overcoming the performance of traditional cooling approaches. The NA62 experiment has recently adopted a...
Liang Han
(Univ. of Science & Tech. of China (CN))
Gaseous Detectors
Poster
We report our studies of fast timing and high precision tracking trigger using Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs). Two beam tests were carried out with 180 GeV muons at CERN using 1.0 - 1.15 mm gas-gap RPCs equipped with readout strips of 1.27 mm in pitch. This is the first time RPCs with fine-pitch readout strips have been tested with high energy muons to explore the capabilities of precision...
Dr
Ichiro Adachi
(KEK),
Makoto Tabata
Cherenkov Detectors
Poster
Proximity focusing RICH based on a silica aerogel as a Cherenkov radiator has been developed for new particle identification device in the Belle II end-cap detector. For this detector, we propose new concept to employ dual aerogel layers with different refractive indices so that Cherenkov photons from each layer can be imaged as an overlapped ring on the photodetector plan. In this new idea on...
Dr
Yan Benhammou
(Tel Aviv University)
Gaseous Detectors
Poster
The forthcoming luminosity upgrade of LHC to super-LHC (sLHC) will increase the expected background rate in the forward region of the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer by approximately the factor of five. Some of the present Muon Spectrometer components will fail to cope with these high rates and will have to be replaced. The results of a test of a device consisting of 8 layers of Thin Gap Chambers...
Gonzalo Rodriguez
(Universisdad Santiago de Compostela)
Astroparticle Detectors
Poster
The AMY experiment aims to measure the Microwave Bremsstrahlung Radiation (MBR) emitted by air-showers secondary electrons accelerating in collisions with neutral molecules of the atmosphere. The measurements are performed at the Beam Test Facility (BTF) of Frascati INFN National Laboratories. The experiment will characterize the process to be used in a next generation detectors of ultra-high...
Fabio Ambrosino
(Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II" e Sezione INFN Napoli)
Scintillating Detectors
Poster
The CHANTI is a charged hodoscope with many innovative features in order to cope with the needs of the NA62 experiment at CERN. Its main aim is to veto the inelastic interaction of the NA62 beam with the Si beam spectrometer called Gigatracker (GTK). Although a fraction of less than 10-3 of the beam particles will suffer an inelastic interaction with the GTK, the huge flux of K crossing the...
Mr
Martino Borsato
(LAL (IN2P3/CNRS & Université Paris Sud))
Cherenkov Detectors
Poster
The FDIRC (Focusing Detector of Internally Reflected Cherenkov light) is a new concept of PID detector which aims at separating kaons from pions up to a few GeV/c. It is the successor of the BaBar DIRC and benefits from the knowledge accumulated with a first FDIRC prototype built and operated at SLAC.
The FDIRC is intended to be used at the SuperB experiment whose luminosity will be 100 times...
Dr
Henrik Vardanyan
(Alikhanyan National Laboratory)
Astroparticle Detectors
Poster
The current status of the GAMMA experiment on Mt. Aragats in Armenia is presented. A modernization of the GAMMA muon underground detector array was recently completed between October 2011 and February 2012. Sixty additional muon scintillation detectors were constructed and are now taking data. This will improve the selection of muon-poor showers, and the primary energy estimation and also...
Antonio de Bari
(U)
Cherenkov Detectors
Poster
The International Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will carry out
a systematic investigation of ionization cooling of a muon beam, for the
future Neutrino Factory and the Muon Collider. As the emittance measurement
will be done on a particle-by-particle basis, a sophisticated beam
instrumentation is needed to measure both particle coordinates and timing
vs RF in a harsh...
Dr
Giulio Saracino
(Università Federico II di Napoli e INFN (IT))
Scintillating Detectors
Poster
Cosmic-ray muon radiography is a technique for imaging the variation of density inside the top few hundred meters of a volcanic cone. It is based on the penetration capability of the high energy muon component of the cosmic radiation. The measurement of muon absorption allows the evaluation of the average density along the observation line with a spatial resolution up to tens of meters, in...
Dr
Miriam Fritsch
(University and Helmholtz Institute Mainz, Germany)
Electronics
Poster
The PANDA experiment will be built at the new accelerator facility FAIR in Darmstadt (Germany). It is optimized for hadron spectroscopy especially in the charm sector. Main topics of the PANDA physics program are the search for new and predicted states and the precise measurement of the line shape of new and already discovered resonances, e.g. the X(3872). This will be done by using the energy...
Dr
Gilles De Lentdecker
(Universite Libre de Bruxelles),
Patrizia Barria
(Universite Libre de Bruxelles (BE))
Gaseous Detectors
Poster
The dedicated CMS R&D program was launched to study the feasibility of using micropattern detectors for the instrumentation of the vacant |η| > 1.6 region in the present RPC endcap system. The proposed detector for CMS is a triple-GEM trapezoidal chamber, equipped with 1D readout, with dimensions (990x440-220) cm2. While during 2010-2011 the collaboration worked on the prototyping of the...
Mr
Kenichi Sato
(HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.)
Electronics
Poster
MPPC (Multi-Pixel Photon Counter) is the kind of solid state photon counting device operating in geiger-mode. The features of the MPPC is the high gain (up to 10^5 to 10^6), high time resolution and high sensitivity around 400-500nm. These characteristics are well matched to the general scintillation applications like PET.
In recent physics experiment applications, it seems that the liquid...
Dr
Fulvio Tessarotto
(INFN Trieste)
Gaseous Detectors
Poster
An important upgrade of COMPASS RICH-1 has recently been approved: it mainly consists in replacing MWPC-based photon detectors with THGEM-based ones.
The new detectors have been developed in an extensive R&D project, through three steps:
1) study of the response of single THGEM’s with various geometries and different conditions, by systematic measurements and simulations of the...
ilsoo seong
(University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Gaseous Detectors
Poster
We present our most recent work on the use of integrated silicon pixel electronics (pixels) to readout gas-filled Time Projection Chambers (TPCs). Employing Gas Electron Multipliers (GEMs) to amplify the signal we are able to detect single electrons produced from ionization with high efficiency. These technologies also allow ionization in the target gas to be detected with low noise and...
Oleg Gress
(API ISU)
Astroparticle Detectors
Poster
Tunka-HiSCORE (HiSCORE – Hundred Square-km Cosmic Origin Explorer) – is a new Cherenkov EAS array for multi –TeV gamma-ray astronomy and CR studies. The array will consist of wide–angle (0.6 ster) optical stations with 150 m distance between individual stations. The array will be constructed in several stages: beginning with a 1 km2 array at the first stage up to 100 km2 at the last stage.
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Dr
Grigori Feofilov
(St. Petersburg State University (RU))
Semiconductor Detectors
Poster
We present practical solutions, design and examples of technologies of the low-mass, low-Z structures with various integrated cooling systems to be used for Monolithic arrays of pixel detectors (MAPS) for ALICE [1] at the LHC. These promising, high speed, precise, high granularity, 50 um thin pixel detectors will be used for particle tracking and vertex determination in the upgraded ALICE...
Daisuke Kaneko
(Univ. of Tokyo)
Electronics
Poster
In the MEG experiment, we are searching for the lepton flavor violating decay, mu->e+gamma, with the highest sensitivity. We have recently published the current tightest upper limit of the branching ratio of 2.4x10^-12, and aim at reaching a sensitivity of 6x10^-13 in 2013 as the goal of the current phase of the experiment.
We are planning a major upgrade of the experiment including an...
