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Jos Engelen (CERN)02/06/2014, 14:00
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Gianluigi De Geronimo (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))02/06/2014, 14:10The complexity and resolving capability of detectors for high energy physics experiments have been steadily increasing. The front-end electronics, which provides the readout of signals from the sensing elements of these detectors, has observed a corresponding increase in complexity, functionality, and transistor count. A major breakthrough came with the advent of front-end Application-Specific...Go to contribution page
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Gerhard Raven (NIKHEF (NL))02/06/2014, 14:40Since its inception in 1965, Moore’s law has had a large impact on many technologies. This presentation will review how these changes have influenced the design of trigger and DAQ systems, and attempt to extrapolate the trends identified towards the future.Go to contribution page
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Dr Marion Matters-Kammerer (TU Eindhoven)02/06/2014, 15:10Terahertz imaging and spectroscopy based on optical and electronic generation and detection of radiation has resulted in a wealth of new application opportunities in the area of medical surgery (e.g. tumor margin detection), biomedical analysis (e.g. protein interaction), non-destructive testing (e.g. production control), security (e.g. airport scanners, detection of concealed weapons) as well...Go to contribution page
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Paola Tropea (CERN)02/06/2014, 16:10Since 2000, a few particle physics detectors have been using evaporative Carbon Dioxide (CO2) for their low temperature cooling systems, showing exceptional performances and stability in their full range of operation. The excellent physical, thermal and fluid dynamic properties of CO2, coupled to its radiation hardness, make it a very interesting option for the cooling systems of the next...Go to contribution page
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Silvia Fracchia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES))02/06/2014, 16:10The Tile Calorimeter (TileCal) is the central hadronic calorimeter of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. Together with other calorimeters, it provides precise measurements of hadrons, jets, taus and missing transverse energy. The monitoring and equalisation of the calorimeter response at each stage of the signal development is allowed by a movable 137Cs radioactive source, a laser calibration...Go to contribution page
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Dr David ATTIE (CEA/Irfu)02/06/2014, 16:10In the last decade, R&D of detectors for the future International Linear Collider (ILC) has been carried out by the community. 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 Si vertex detector and forward tracking disks coupled to a large volume Time Projection Chamber...Go to contribution page
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Henrique Araujo (Imperial College London)02/06/2014, 16:10The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment is a next-generation search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, scaling the very successful double-phase xenon technology to multi-tonne target mass. LZ will be deployed at the 4850-ft level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility (South Dakota, USA) after completion of LUX, which is presently operating there. At its core, LZ will feature a 7-tonne...Go to contribution page
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Mr Jan Veverka (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))02/06/2014, 16:10The data acquisition system (DAQ) of the CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider assembles events at a rate of 100 kHz, transporting event data at an aggregate throughput of 100 GByte/s to the high level trigger (HLT) farm. The HLT farm selects interesting events for storage and offline analysis at a rate of around 1 kHz. The DAQ system has been redesigned during the accelerator...Go to contribution page
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Dr Theodoros Geralis (NCSR Demokritos)02/06/2014, 16:30We present for a first time, the development of Micromegas detectors based on Microbulk technology with segmented mesh. The space charge produced within the amplification volume induces both signals and the mesh strips provide the y coordinate while the anode strips the x coordinate. The manufacturing of a segmented mesh simplifies the x-y readout that up to now was produced in a complicated...Go to contribution page
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Dr Alex Kish (Physik-Institut UZH)02/06/2014, 16:30The XENON1T detector, currently under construction at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory (LNGS) in Italy, is a dual-phase (liquid-gas) xenon time-projection chamber (TPC) for particle detection. It is the successor of XENON100, which reached its sensitivity goal with the last limits on spin-independent WIMP-nucleus interaction (2e-45 cm^2 at 55GeV/c^2), the world-leading result at the time...Go to contribution page
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Wainer Vandelli (CERN)02/06/2014, 16:30The ReadOut System (ROS) is a central and essential part of the ATLAS DAQ system. It receives and buffers data of events accepted by the first-level trigger from all subdetectors and first-level trigger subsystems. Event data are subsequently forwarded to the High-Level Trigger system and Event Builder via a 1 GbE-based network. The ATLAS ROS is completely renewed in view of the demanding...Go to contribution page
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Pablo Rodriguez Perez (University of Manchester)02/06/2014, 16:30The LHCb Vertex Detector (VELO) will be upgraded in 2018 to a lightweight, pixel detector capable of 40 MHz readout and operation in very close proximity to the LHC beams. The thermal management of the system will be provided by evaporative CO2 circulating in microchannels embedded within thin silicon plates. This solution has been selected due to the excellent thermal efficiency, the...Go to contribution page
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Arabella Martelli (INFN e Università Milano-Bicocca (IT))02/06/2014, 16:30The Electromagnetic Calorimeter (ECAL) of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the LHC is a hermetic, fine grained, homogeneous calorimeter, comprising 75848 lead tungstate scintillating crystals. We highlight the key role of the ECAL in the discovery and elucidation of the Standard Model Higgs boson during LHC Run I. We discuss, with reference to specific examples from LHC Run I, the...Go to contribution page
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Bastian Beskers (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)02/06/2014, 16:50Liquid xenon is used in many fields as detector medium. Dark Matter experiments based on liquid xenon have set the most stringent limits in the past decade and are still leading the field. Also in other areas of particle physics xenon is used as detector medium, for example in the search for neutrinoless double beta decay (EXO), in the search for lepton flavor violation (MEG) or in envisioned...Go to contribution page
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Mr Fernando Amaro (Coimbra University)02/06/2014, 16:50We present a new concept for the suppression of the secondary ions in gaseous detectors. The Zero Ion Backflow electron multiplier operates in a noble gas atmosphere and supress the ion backflow to the level of the primary ionization, totally blocking the secondary ions that are produced in the multiplier. This detector is composed by a proportional scintillation region, composed by two highly...Go to contribution page
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Andrew Kevin Forrest (CERN)02/06/2014, 16:50As part of the CMS upgrade during CERN’s shutdown period (LS1), the CMS data acquisition system is incorporating Infiniband FDR technology to boost event building performance for operation from 2015 onwards. Infiniband promises to provide substantial increase in data transmission speeds compared to the older 1GE network used during the 2009-2013 LHC run. Several options exist to end user...Go to contribution page
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Lukasz Zwalinski (CERN)02/06/2014, 16:50CO2 cooling has become a very interesting technology for current and future tracking particle detectors. A key advantage of using CO2 as refrigerant is the high heat transfer capability allowing a significant material budget saving, which is a critical element in state of the art detector technologies. At CERN new CO2 cooling system has been constructed to serve for new ATLAS Insertable...Go to contribution page
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Adolf Bornheim (Charles C. Lauritsen Laboratory of High Energy Physics)02/06/2014, 16:50The CMS electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) is made of 75,848 scintillating lead tungstate crystals arranged in a barrel and two endcaps. The scintillation light is read out by avalanche photodiodes in the barrel and vacuum phototriodes in the endcaps, at which point the scintillation pulse is amplified and sampled at 40 MHz by the on-detector electronics. The fast signal from the crystal...Go to contribution page
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Franck Gastaldi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))02/06/2014, 17:10This article presents the scalable Data Acquisition (DAQ) system that has been designed for prototypes of ultra-granular calorimeters for the International Linear Collider (ILC). Our design is generic enough to cope with other applications with some minor adaptations. The DAQ is made up of four different modules, including an optional one. One Detector InterFace (DIF) is placed at each end of...Go to contribution page
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Christoph Krieger (Universitaet Bonn (DE))02/06/2014, 17:10The CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) is searching for axions and other new particles coupling to photons and emerging from the sun. Those particles are converted into soft X-ray photons in a high magnetic field. To enhance sensitivity for physics beyond the Standard Model it is necessary to cope with weak couplings and low energies, thus requiring an efficient background discrimination as...Go to contribution page
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Tatsuya Chujo (University of Tsukuba (JP))02/06/2014, 17:10ALICE at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the dedicated experiment focused on heavy ion collisions at LHC, to study a de-confined matter of quarks and gluons, called Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP). Among the sub-detector systems in AILCE, there are two types of calorimetry in the central barrel. One is EMCal (Lead-Scintillator, a sampling electromagnetic calorimeter with a WLS fiber and APD...Go to contribution page
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Petr Gorbounov (CERN and ITEP(Moscow))02/06/2014, 17:10As part of the LHCb Phase-II upgrade programme, the existing downstream tracking systems will be replaced by a new scintillating fibre tracker read out by multi-channel silicon photomultipliers (SiPM). To ensure high tracking performance over the entire experiment's lifetime, the SiPMs will be operated at sub-zero temperatures, down to -40ºC. This presentation outlines the proposed...Go to contribution page
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Biagio Rossi (Universita e INFN (IT))02/06/2014, 17:10SiGHT stays for Silicon Geiger Hybrid Tube for light detection. Our goal is to construct a modern, high performance, low radioactivity photo detector working at liquid argon and xenon temperature. The idea is to replace the classical dynodic chain of a PMT with a SiPM acting as an electron multiplying detector embedded in a low-radioactive fused silica envelope. This invention would represent...Go to contribution page
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Mr Alexander Ruban (A.)02/06/2014, 17:30CMD-3 detector of VEPP2000 e+e- collider, BINP, Russia, is under data taking for a few runs. It’s Time Oriented Measurement and Acquire (TOMA) DAQ demonstrates stable operation and targeted performance. During DAQ life cycle it was few times expanded in number and nomenclature of digitizer boards so as new functionality features was switched on. There are no interference or backward...Go to contribution page
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Dr Junji Naganoma (Rice University)02/06/2014, 17:30We present results from measurements to detect proportional scintillation light near thin wires in liquid xenon (LXe). А LXe time projection chamber (TPC) has superior features for the direct detection of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) as demonstrated by the Xenon10 and Xenon100 experiments and more recently also by LUX. Future upgrades of these experiments with a TPC...Go to contribution page
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Pascal Perret (Univ. Blaise Pascal Clermont-Fe. II (FR))02/06/2014, 17:30The LHCb experiment is dedicated to precision measurements of CP violation and rare decays of B hadrons at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN (Geneva). It comprises a calorimeter system composed of four subdetectors: an electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) followed by a hadron calorimeter (HCAL). In addition the system includes in front of them the Scintillating Pad Detector (SPD) and...Go to contribution page
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Gergo Hamar (Wigner RCP, Budapest)02/06/2014, 17:30Gaseous detectors can be made sensitive to photons, and become excellent choice for applications such as Cherenkov radiation imaging for particle identification. Micopattern Gaseous Detector (MPGD) technologies opened new ways to photon detection, where the possibility for reduced ion feedback, better timing and the suppression of non-photon signals are factors of improved performance. On the...Go to contribution page
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Alessandro Mapelli (CERN)02/06/2014, 17:30The NA62 collaboration will pioneer the use of on-detector microfluidic cooling systems with the implementation of silicon microchannel plates in the GigaTracKer (GTK) pixel detectors in the fall of 2014. The cooling plates consist of 130 µm silicon substrates in which 150 microchannels are embedded. They have a rectangular cross-section of 70 x 200 µm and they cover an area of 45 x 60 mm...Go to contribution page
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Dr Marcello Messina (Columbia University)02/06/2014, 17:50The next generation of Dark Matter detectors based on dual-phase (liquid/gas) Xenon Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) will require an active volume of liquid with a mass on the tonne-scale in order to reach the desired sensitivity to WIMP-nucleon interactions. One natural and effective way to increase the target mass is to build a TPC with larger cross-sectional area and longer drift distance. ...Go to contribution page
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Nicholas Chott (University of South Carolina)02/06/2014, 17:50The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is a 1-ton scale bolometric experiment. The CUORE detector is an array of 988 TeO2 crystals arranged in a cylindrical compact and granular structure of 19 towers. This will be by far the largest bolometric mass ever operated. These detectors will need a base temperature around 10 mK in order to meet the performance specifications....Go to contribution page
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Mr Yuya Makino (STEL, Nagoya University)02/06/2014, 17:50The Large Hadron Collider forward (LHCf) experiment is designed to measure the hadronic production cross sections of neutral particles emitted in the very forward angles in p-p collision at the LHC. LHCf has reported energy spectra of forward photons and neutral pions at √s = 900 GeV and 7 TeV proton-proton collisions measured at LHC. Forward spectra can be helpful in verifying cosmic ray...Go to contribution page
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Maximilien Chefdeville (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))02/06/2014, 17:50Micromegas is an attractive option for a gaseous sampling calorimeter. It delivers proportional and fast signals, achieves high efficiency to minimum ionising particles with a compact design and shows well-uniform performance over meter-square areas. The current R&D focuses on large-size spark-protected Micromegas with integrated front-end electronics. It targets an application at future...Go to contribution page
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Stephanie Su (University of Michigan)02/06/2014, 17:50The goal of KOTO experiment at J-PARC is to discover and measure the rate of the rare decay KL -> pi0-nu-nubar, for which the Standard Model predicts a branching ratio of (2.4 +/- 0.4)x10E-11 . The experiment is a follow-up to E391 at KEK with a completely new readout electronics, trigger and data acquisition system. The KOTO DAQ comprises a front-end 14-Bit, 125MHz ADC board and a two-level...Go to contribution page
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Piet De Moor (imec)03/06/2014, 09:00A classical imager contains a 2D array of pixels responsible for the capture of the optical signal, surrounded by peripheral electronics which is reading out all pixels and sending the obtained image off-chip. For almost all application a trend towards high image resolution (and therefore smaller pixels) is observed. However, this leads to several performance issues. First, the area per...Go to contribution page
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Silvia Dalla Torre (Universita e INFN (IT))03/06/2014, 09:30Driven by the availability of modern photolithographic techniques, the Micro Pattern Gas Detectors (MPGD) have been introduced in the last years of the 20th century by pioneer activities: Gas Electron Multipliers (GEM) and Micromegas, later followed by thick-GEM, resistive GEM (RETGEM) and novel micro-pattern devices. Nowadays, a flourishing of R&D activities dedicated to MPGDs and of...Go to contribution page
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Jurriaan Schmitz (University of Twente)03/06/2014, 10:00This keynote lecture describes the art to precisely manufacture solid-state devices at the scale of micrometers down to tens of nanometers. The latest developments in microchip fabrication are presented, with their possible consequences in circuit design and computing. Further, the use of microfabrication for particle detectors is reviewed.Go to contribution page
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Prof. Shulin Liu (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Rd. Yuquan 19B, 100049, Beijing, China)03/06/2014, 11:00In order to meet the needs of JUNO, we design and manufacture a kind of electrostatic focusing MCP-PMT which has very low radioactive background by introducing pure raw materials and controlling melting and artificial fine blowing process. This MCP-PMT has high photon detection efficiency which results from using transmission photocathode and reflection photocathode simultaneously, and the...Go to contribution page
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Cecile Lapoire (Universitaet Bonn (DE)/CERN)03/06/2014, 11:00The ATLAS experiment will upgrade its Pixel Detector with the installation of a new pixel layer in 2014. The new sub-detector, named Insertable B-layer (IBL), will be installed between the existing Pixel Detector and a new smaller radius beam-pipe at a radius of 3.3 cm. To cope with the high radiation and pixel occupancy due to the proximity to the interaction point, a new read-out...Go to contribution page
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Daniel Pelikan (Uppsala University (SE))03/06/2014, 11:00Wireless data transfer has revolutionized the consumer market for the last decade giving products equipped with transmitters and receiver for wireless data transfer. Wireless technology has features attractive for data transfer in future tracking detectors. The removal of wires and connectors for data links is certainly beneficial both for the material budget and the reliability of the system....Go to contribution page
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Pierluigi Luciano (Sezione di Pisa (IT))03/06/2014, 11:00The Associative Memory (AM) system of the FTK processor has been designed to perform pattern matching using the hit information of the ATLAS silicon tracker. The AM is the heart of the FTK and it finds track candidates at low resolution that are seeds for a full resolution track fitting. To solve the very challenging data traffic problem inside the FTK, multiple designs and tests have been...Go to contribution page
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Frank Simon (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik)03/06/2014, 11:00The intrinsic time structure of hadronic showers influences the timing capability and the required integration time of highly granular hadronic calorimeters for future collider experiments. To evaluate the influence of different active media and different absorbers, dedicated experiments with tungsten and steel hadron calorimeters of the CALICE collaboration have been carried out. These use...Go to contribution page
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Dr Alexey Petrukhin (IPNL/CNRS)03/06/2014, 11:20The SDHCAL prototype that was completed in 2012 was exposed to beams of pions, electrons of different energies at the SPS of CERN for a total time period of 5 weeks. The data are being analyzed within the CALICE collaboration. However preliminary results indicate that a highly granular hadronic calorimeter conceived for PFA application is also a powerful tool to separate pions from electrons....Go to contribution page
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Mr Hans Kristian Soltveit (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))03/06/2014, 11:20State-of-the-art tracking detector systems as the ATLAS silicon micro-strip tracker will after the upgrade in 2022, require an overall readout bandwidth between 50 and 100 Tb/s. To allow such a highly granular tracker to contribute to the first level trigger decision or event filtering, a fast readout system with a tremendous bandwidth is therefore essential. With up to 9 GHz of continous...Go to contribution page
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Mr Yusuke Suda (Department of Physics, University of Tokyo)03/06/2014, 11:20We have been developing new photodetectors for the Hyper-Kamiokande (Hyper-K) detector, which is proposed as a next generation Megaton class water Cherenkov detector. There are three candidate photodetectors; One is a 20-inch venetian blind dynode type PMT (R3600) which is used in Super-Kamiokande. Second is a newly developed box and line dynode type PMT which has a better collection...Go to contribution page
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Dr Stefan Mattig (Hamburg University (DE))03/06/2014, 11:20The silicon pixel detector is the innermost component of the CMS tracking system, providing high precision space point measurements of charged particle trajectories. Before 2018 the instantaneous luminosity of the LHC is expected to reach 2x1034cm−2s−1, which will significantly increase the number of interactions per bunch crossing. The current pixel detector of CMS was not designed to work...Go to contribution page
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Christos Gentsos (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki (GR))03/06/2014, 11:20The Fast Tracker (FTK) processor [1] for the ATLAS experiment has a computing core made of 128 Processing Units that reconstruct tracks in the silicon detector in a ~100 μsec deep pipeline. The track parameter resolution provided by FTK enables the HLT trigger to identify efficiently and reconstruct significant samples of fermionic Higgs decays. Data processing speed is achieved with...Go to contribution page
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Calliope-louisa Sotiropoulou (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki (GR))03/06/2014, 11:40The high performance multi-core 2D pixel clustering FPGA implementation used for the input system of the ATLAS Fast TracKer (FTK) processor is presented. The input system for the FTK processor will receive data from the Pixel and micro-strip detectors read out drivers (RODs) at 760Gbps, the full rate of level 1 triggers. Clustering is required as a method to reduce the high rate of the...Go to contribution page
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337. Characterization of Ni/SnPb-TiW/Pt Flip Chip Interconnections in Silicon Pixel Detector ModulesMs Aneliya Karadzhinova (Helsinki Institute of Physics, PO Box 64, 00014, Helsinki, Finland)03/06/2014, 11:40In contemporary high energy physics experiments, silicon detectors are essential for recording the trajectory of new particles generated by multiple simultaneous collisions. To guarantee high sensitivity near the collision point, modern particle tracking systems may feature 100 million channels, or pixels, which need to be individually connected to read-out chains. Silicon pixel detectors are...Go to contribution page
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Dr Atsumu Suzuki (Kobe University)03/06/2014, 11:40Neutrino energy measurement is very important not only for a neutrino oscillation experiment but for a nuclear reactor monitor requested by IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) as one of their safeguards against misuse of nuclear technology and nuclear materials. The requirements for the reactor monitor are to be nonflammable and nonvolatile. As such a detector, we are developping a...Go to contribution page
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Wolfgang Klempt (CERN)03/06/2014, 11:40ABSTRACT: We present a study of the showers initiated by high momentum (up to 100 GeV) positrons, pions and protons in the highly granular CALICE analogue scintillator-tungsten hadronic calorimeter. The data were taken at the CERN PS and SPS. The analysis includes measurements of the calorimeter response to each particle type and studies of the longitudinal and radial shower development. The...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Kazu Carvalho Akiba (Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro (BR))03/06/2014, 11:40The upgrade of the LHCb experiment, planned for 2018, will transform the entire readout to a trigger-less system operating at 40 MHz. All data reduction algorithms will be executed in a high-level software farm, with access to all event information. This will enable the detector to run at luminosities of 1-2 x1033 /cm2/s and probe physics beyond the Standard Model in the heavy sector with...Go to contribution page
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Jean Rinkel (L)03/06/2014, 12:00The dispersion of individual pixels parameters are widely studied in the field of hybrid pixel detectors for X-ray detection. CERN is developing methods of thresholds equalization to correct for threshold dispersion between pixels of the Medipix3RX readout chip. In this paper, we focus on the complex problem of pixel-to-pixel dead time dispersion, which cannot be corrected by simple flat field...Go to contribution page
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Yuji Takeuchi (University of Tsukuba)03/06/2014, 12:00We present the development of Superconducting Tunnel Junction (STJ) detectors as far-infrared single photon detector motivated by application to a search for radiative decay of cosmic background neutrino. The photon energy spectrum from the neutrino radiative decays is expected to have a sharp edge at high energy end in a far-infrared region ranging from 14meV to 25meV (from 50um to 90um in...Go to contribution page
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Vincent Boudry (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))03/06/2014, 12:00The best jet energy resolution required for precise physics measurements at ILC is achievable using a Particle Flow Algorithm (PFA) and highly granular calorimeters. As it was shown by CALICE international R&D collaboration, the silicon-tungsten imaging electromagnetic calorimeter provides the best granularity and jet resolution. After proving the PFA concept with physical prototypes in...Go to contribution page
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Mr Joris van Heijningen (Nikhef)03/06/2014, 12:00In order to make a really precise vibration sensor, a monolithic accelerometer, in which a mass is suspended by a pendulum and an inverted pendulum, is read out using a tabletop Michelson interferometer (IFO). To measure the position of the mass, a corner cube attached to the suspended mass is used. The signals in both arms of the IFO are monitored, matched and subtracted, using this...Go to contribution page
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Christian Lippmann (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))03/06/2014, 12:00A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) is the detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) dedicated to the study of strongly interacting matter, in particular the properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma. The ALICE collaboration plans a major upgrade of the detector during the Long Shutdown 2 (LS2) of the LHC, which is at present foreseen to start in summer 2018. The upgrade strategy is...Go to contribution page
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Dr Griesmayer Erich (CIVIDEC Instrumentation)03/06/2014, 12:20Diamond is perhaps the most versatile, efficient and radiation tolerant material available for use in beam detectors with a correspondingly wide range of applications in beam instrumentation. Numerous practical applications have demonstrated and exploited the sensitivity of diamond to charged particles, photons and neutrons. In this presentation, emphasis will be given to fast beam loss...Go to contribution page
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Lloyd Teh (Shinshu University)03/06/2014, 12:20The idea of using scintillator strips coupled with Pixelated Photon-Detector(PPD) has provided the ILD an electromagnetic calorimeter(ECAL) option with a lower cost. In the FNAL 2009 beam test, it was found that the prototype calorimeter of 30 layers could meet the stringent requirements of the ILD. Following this, efforts has been made to develop a more feasible ECAL in terms of performance,...Go to contribution page
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Matthew Wetstein (University of Chicago)03/06/2014, 12:20Neutron tagging in Gadolinium-doped water may play a significant role in reducing backgrounds from atmospheric neutrinos in next generation proton-decay searches using megaton-scale Water Cherenkov detectors. Similar techniques might also be useful in the detection of supernova neutrinos. Accurate determination of neutron tagging efficiencies will require a detailed understanding of the number...Go to contribution page
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Mr Cahit Ugur (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GbmH)03/06/2014, 12:20One of the most crucial parts of the particle physics experiments, data digitisation, is being driven by the higher specifications for better particle identification. This increasing push by the experiments motivates the developers for different and better solutions for time, amplitude and charge digitisation methods. In our work we explain our solution for the tasks: TRB3 Platform. The...Go to contribution page
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Dr Carlos Marinas (University of Bonn)03/06/2014, 12:20The DEPFET Collaboration develops highly granular, ultra-thin pixel detectors for outstanding vertex reconstruction at future collider experiments. A DEPFET sensor, by the integration of a field effect transistor on a fully depleted silicon bulk, provides simultaneously position sensitive detector capabilities and in-pixel amplification. The characterization of the latest DEPFET prototypes has...Go to contribution page
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Petra Riedler (CERN)03/06/2014, 14:00Monolithic pixel detectors have been studied for many years for their potential to combine the possibility to build a very low mass detector with very high granularity pixel resolution in high volume 8" CMOS productions. Different technical solutions have been studied and were implemented in tracking detectors. The application has been limited however to low radiation environments. Prominent...Go to contribution page
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Marcella Diemoz (Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))03/06/2014, 14:30Huge calorimetric systems built to ensure the Higgs discovery and new physics searches have borne scrutiny of collisions and harsh environment during the first LHC run. Few key aspects of the performance of these systems and lessons learnt in this context will be discussed. In the future, several crucial physics problems have to be addressed in different scientific fields and this research...Go to contribution page
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Ouellet Jon (LBL)03/06/2014, 16:10CUORE is a 741 kg array of TeO2 bolometers for the search of neurinoless double beta decay in Te-130. The detector is being constructed at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy, where it will start taking data in 2015. If the target background of 0.01 counts/(keV kg y) will be reached, in five years of data taking CUORE will have an half life sensitivity of about 1026 y. CUORE-0 is a...Go to contribution page
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Gerhard Raven (NIKHEF (NL)), Johannes Albrecht (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE)), Vladimir Gligorov (CERN)03/06/2014, 16:10The LHCb experiment is a spectrometer dedicated to the study of heavy flavor at the LHC. The rate of proton-proton collisions at the LHC is 15 MHz, of which only 5 kHz can be written to storage for offline analysis. For this reason the trigger system plays a key role in selecting signal events and rejecting background. In contrast to previous experiments at hadron colliders, the bulk of the...Go to contribution page
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Michael Tytgat (Ghent University (BE))03/06/2014, 16:10In view of the high-luminosity phase of the LHC, the CMS Collaboration is considering the use of Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detector technology for the upgrade of its muon system in the forward region. With their ability to handle the extreme particle rates expected in that area, such micro-pattern gas detectors can sustain a high performance and redundant muon trigger system. At the same...Go to contribution page
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T. Takeshita (Shinshu Univ.)03/06/2014, 16:10An idea of Compton-PET is not new, however, current trend to be equipped heavy and smaller scintillators makes this idea feasible and easy. Two layers which composed of 3x3 scintillator matrix read out by 9 MPPC are fabricated and tested. The results of the experiment and comparison to the simulation will be presented. Furthermore, much smaller scintillator makes to improve the SPECT...Go to contribution page
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Muriel Vander Donckt (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR))03/06/2014, 16:30The trigger systems of the LHC detectors play a crucial role in determining the physics capabilities of the experiments. A reduction of several orders of magnitude of the event rate is needed to reach values compatible with detector readout, offline storage and analysis capability. The CMS experiment has been designed with a two-level trigger system: the Level-1 Trigger (L1T), implemented on...Go to contribution page
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Paolo Iengo (INFN Napoli (IT))03/06/2014, 16:30In view of the use of micromegas detectors for the upgrade of the ATLAS muon system, we have constructed two detector quadruplets with an area of 0.5 m^2 per plane serving as prototypes for future ATLAS chambers. They are based on the resistive-strip technology and thus spark tolerant. The detectors were built in a modular way. The quadruplets consist of two double-sided readout panels with...Go to contribution page
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Aine Kobayashi (University of Tokyo (JP))03/06/2014, 16:30TREK is a precision-frontier experiment, planned at J-PARC (Tokai, Japan), for a T-violation search in Kaon decays into the pi0 mu+ nu final state. The signature is a non-zero transverse polarization (P_T) of muons in the direction perpendicular to the decay plane. Using the same process the E246 experiment at KEK has set an upper limit on | P_T | < 0.0050 at the 90% confidence level. TREK...Go to contribution page
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Erika Garutti (DESY)03/06/2014, 16:30The EndoTOFPET-US project aims to jointly exploit Time-Of-Flight Positron Emission Tomography (TOFPET) and ultrasound endoscopy with a multi-modal instrument for diagnostic and therapeutic oncology. The development of two novel detectors is required, a PET head extension for a commercial US endoscope placed close to the region of interest (ROI) and a PET plate over the patient’s abdomen in...Go to contribution page
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Susanne Kuehn (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (DE))03/06/2014, 16:30The revised schedule for the LHC upgrade foresees a significant increase of the luminosity of the LHC by upgrading towards the HL-LHC (High Luminosity-LHC). The final upgrade is planned for around 2023, followed by the HL-LHC running. This is motivated by the need to harvest the maximum physics potential from the machine. It is clear that the high integrated luminosity of 3000 fb-1 will...Go to contribution page
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Paul Dervan (University of Liverpool (GB))03/06/2014, 16:50Different pitch layouts are considered for the pixel detector being designed for the ATLAS upgraded tracking system which will be operating at the High Luminosity LHC. The tracking performance in the Endcap pixel regions could benefit from pixel layouts which differ from the geometries used in the barrel region. Also, the performance in different barrel layers and eta regions could be...Go to contribution page
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Till Moritz Karbach (CERN)03/06/2014, 16:50The LHCb experiment is designed to study B-decays at the LHC, and as such is constructed as a forward spectrometer. The large particle density in the forward region poses extreme challenges to the subdetectors, in terms of hit occupancies and radiation tolerance. To accurately and efficiently detect the charged decay particles in the high-density particle environment of the LHC the...Go to contribution page
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Toru Tanimori (Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Japan)03/06/2014, 16:50We have developed an Electron-Tracking Compton Camera (ETCC) for medical imaging due to its wide energy dynamic range (200 - 1500keV) and abilities of background rejection and clear imaging using the tracking information of the recoil electron. Thus this camera has a potential of developing the new reagents for molecular imaging. Until now we have carried out several imaging reagent studies...Go to contribution page
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Jacopo Pinzino (Sezione di Pisa (IT))03/06/2014, 16:50The main goal of the NA62 experiment at CERN is to measure the Branching Ratio (BR) of the ultra-rare decay of a charged kaon into a charged pion and two neutrinos (K+→π+νν). It aims to collect about 100 events in two years of data taking and to test the Standard Model of Particle Physics (SM), using the positive charged proton beam provided by SPS accelerator. The key issues are readout...Go to contribution page
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Karl Tasso Knoepfle (MPI Kernphysik, 69117 Heidelberg)03/06/2014, 16:50The Germanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment, located underground in the Gran Sasso National Laboratory of INFN, Italy, is searching for the neutrinoless double beta (0v2b) decay of Ge-76. It uses a new shielding concept by operating bare Ge diodes (enriched in Ge-76) in 64 m^3 of liquid argon supplemented by a 3m thick layer of water. The results of GERDA Phase I have been published...Go to contribution page
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Gianfranco Morello (Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare (IT))03/06/2014, 17:10The KLOE-2 experiment is starting its data taking at the DAΦNE ϕ-factory at the Frascati National Laboratory of the INFN. The experiment is continuing the successful physics program of KLOE, that collected 2.5 fb-1 of integrated luminosity between 2001 and 2006. For the new data taking campaign the detector, consisting of a huge Drift Chamber and a Electromagnetic Calorimeter working in a 0.5...Go to contribution page
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Dr Dmitry Hits (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))03/06/2014, 17:10Progress 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. ...Go to contribution page
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Dr Dennis Schaart (Delft University of Technology)03/06/2014, 17:10The silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) is a photosensor that can be fabricated in cost-effective CMOS technology while offering high internal gain, fast response, and insensitivity to magnetic fields. The first prototype devices were developed in the late 1990s. Commercial products, including arrays of SiPMs with a total sensitive area of several square cm, became available in the mid-2000’s. The...Go to contribution page
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Ivana Radoslavova Hristova (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin (DE))03/06/2014, 17:10The level1 calorimeter trigger (L1Calo) of the ATLAS experiment has been operating effectively since the start of LHC data taking, and has played a major role in the discovery of the Higgs boson. To face the new challenges posed by the upcoming increases of the LHC proton beam energy and luminosity, a series of upgrades is planned for L1Calo. An initial upgrade (Phase0) is scheduled to be...Go to contribution page
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Jacobus Willem Van Hoorne (Vienna University of Technology (AT))03/06/2014, 17:10As a major part of its upgrade plans, the ALICE experiment schedules the installation of a novel Inner Tracking System (ITS) during the Long Shutdown 2 of the LHC in 2018/19. It will replace the present silicon tracker with 7 layers of Monolithic Silicon Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) and significantly improve the detector performance in terms of tracking and rate capabilities. The choice of...Go to contribution page
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Vazgen Gabrielyan (MPI for Physics, Munich)03/06/2014, 17:30Speaker: V. Gabrielyan on behalf of the ATLAS Muon Collaboration The Level-1 (L1) trigger for muons with high transverse momentum (pT) in ATLAS is based on chambers with excellent time resolution, able to identify muons coming from a particular beam crossing. These trigger chambers also provide a fast pT-measurement of the muons, the accuracy of the measurement being limited by the moderate...Go to contribution page
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Anna Macchiolo (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (D)03/06/2014, 17:30We present the results of the characterization performed on n-in-p pixel modules produced with thin sensors, ranging in thickness from 100 to 200 μm, assembled to the ATLAS FE-I3 and FE-I4 read-out chips. Among these samples, the sensors produced at VTT (Finland), 100 μm thick, have been processed to obtain active edges, which considerably reduce the dead area at the periphery of the device...Go to contribution page
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Dr Craig Woody (Brookhaven National Lab)03/06/2014, 17:30The PHENIX Experiment at RHIC is planning a series of major upgrades that will enable a comprehensive measurement of jets in relativistic heavy ion collisions, provide enhanced physics capabilities for studying nucleon-nucleus and polarized proton collisions, and allow a detailed study of electron-nucleus collisions at a future Electron Ion Collider (eRHIC) at Brookhaven. These upgrades will...Go to contribution page
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Mrs Maria Michela Del Viva (University of Florence, Italy)03/06/2014, 17:30There are significant analogies between the issues related to real-time event selection in HEP, and the issues faced by the human visual system. In fact, the visual system needs to extract rapidly the most important elements of the external world from a large flux of information, for survival purposes. A rapid and reliable detection of visual stimuli is essential for triggering autonomic...Go to contribution page
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Dr Hajime Nishiguchi (KEK)03/06/2014, 17:30The COMET experiment at J-PARC aims to search for a lepton-flavour violating process of muon to electron conversion in a muonic atom, $\mu$-e conversion, with a branching-ratio sensitivity of better than $10^{−16}$, 4 orders of magnitude better than the present limit, in order to explore the parameter region predicted by most of well-motivated theoretical models beyond the Standard Model. The...Go to contribution page
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Roelof de Vries (PANalytical)04/06/2014, 09:00PANalytical is a company in the Netherlands that designs and builds X-ray diffraction and X-ray fluorescence systems. Systems are sold (and serviced) worldwide and many are operational 24/7. Since the year 2000 PANalytical has been an industrial partner of the Medipix collaboration. The aim for PANalytical was to integrate Medipix detectors in their X-ray diffraction equipment to increase...Go to contribution page
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Bernard Denis (CERN)04/06/2014, 09:30A the end of the 90's the Medipix2 Collaboration was formed with aim of developing a photon counting chip taking advantage of the deep sub-micron CMOS technology to develop a detector with a very small pixel size and a large number of pixels per chip. In 2007, a new collaboration was established to develop a new generation of Medipix chip able to mitigate the effects of charge sharing and...Go to contribution page
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Werner Riegler (CERN)04/06/2014, 10:00The LHC experiment collaborations are presently preparing major upgrades of their detectors during the long LHC shutdowns planned in 2018/2019 and 2023/2024. This presentation will discuss the key challenges for these upgrades and will review the main detector technologies under consideration.Go to contribution page
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Prof. Kock Kiam Gan (Ohio State University (US))04/06/2014, 11:00Planned upgrades to the LHC at CERN will increase its energy and luminosity. These advancements will require increasing the optical data communication bandwidth to fully exploit the accelerator and detector upgrades. This require much increased per-fiber output data rates of up to 10 Gb/s. While 10 Gb/s optical links are mature in industry, as yet there are none that have sufficient radiation...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ernst-Jan BUis (TNO)04/06/2014, 11:00It is a well studied process [1,2] of energy deposition of cosmic ray particles in water that generate thermo-acoustic signals. Hydrophones of sufficient sensitivity could measure this signal and provide a means of detecting ultra-high energetic cosmic neutrinos. We investigate optical fiber-based hydrophone technology that could potentially have several advantages over conventional...Go to contribution page
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Dr Maurizio Bonesini (Sezione INFN Milano Bicocca)04/06/2014, 11:00Time-of-flight systems, based on scintillators, may reach good intrinsic time resolution, by using fast scintillators and photomultipliers. Examples are the large time-of-flight system constructed for the HARP experiment at CERN PS (~150 ps detector resolution) or the most demanding time-of-flight system of the MICE experiment at RAL (~50-60 ps detector resolution). This level of intrinsic...Go to contribution page
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Gabriella Carini (SLAC)04/06/2014, 11:00The high coherence, high peak power and short pulses duration of modern light sources (e.g. X-ray Free-Electron Lasers - XFELs) are particularly well suited for time-resolved pump-probe and coherent diffraction studies. In many pump-probe experiments small differences in signal produced by ground and excited states have to be detected and resolved. Poisson statistics dictates that ~ 1 million...Go to contribution page
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Dr Antonis Papanestis (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))04/06/2014, 11:00The LHCb experiment was fully operational during the Run 1 of the Large Hadron Collider in the period 2009-2013, collected more than 3 fb$^{-1}$ of data and has produced many world first and world best measurements. The RICH system is an integral part of LHCb proving hadron identification in the momentum range of 2-100 GeV/c. The ability to separate pions and kaons in this wide momentum range...Go to contribution page
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Jingbo Ye (Southern Methodist University, Department of Physics)04/06/2014, 11:20We report an ASIC development based on a commercial 0.25-micron silicon-on-sapphire CMOS technology. This ASIC is a dual channel serializer sharing one LC-PLL with 8 Gb/s each channel and a total data throughput of 16 Gb/s for each chip. The prototype packaged in QFN is measured from 7.2 to 8.5 Gb/s each channel, limited by the tuning range of the PLL. This design is for an optical link that...Go to contribution page
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Luka Santelj (Jozef Stefan Institute)04/06/2014, 11:20The Belle II spectrometer, a follow up of the very successful Belle experiment, is under construction at the SuperKEKB electron-positron collider at KEK in Japan. For the PID system in the forward region of the spectrometer, a proximity focusing RICH counter with aerogel radiator is being developed. For this counter we have devised a focusing radiator consisting of two aerogel layers with...Go to contribution page
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Jan Smolik (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))04/06/2014, 11:20Modern detectors with significantly increasing number of active channels require new approach for calibration. The calibration system on the first prototype of the AHCAL in CALICE used one optical fibre for each of 7608 channels to distribute calibration light to tiles with SiPM. As the proposed analogue hadronic calorimeter for ILC should have around 10^6 channels, the former system is...Go to contribution page
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Mirco Deckenhoff (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))04/06/2014, 11:20The Scintillating Fibre (SciFi) Tracker for the LHCb Upgrade (CERN/LHCC 2014-001; LHCb TDR 15) is based on 2.5 m long multi-layered ribbons of 0.250 mm diameter Kuraray SCSF-78MJ scintillating fibre as the active medium and signal transport over covering 350 m$^{2}$ with silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) arrays for photo-readout. Over 10,000 km of fibre will turned into precision detector...Go to contribution page
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Ryan Frank Page (University of Bristol (GB))04/06/2014, 11:20Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT) is a treatment for cancerous tumours. These treatments are complex, with the radiation shaped using dynamic Multileaf Collimators (MLC). This increases dose to the tumour, whilst sparing healthy issue and sensitive organs. Due to the complex nature of these treatments safety is critical. Currently monitoring is from the linac itself and verification is...Go to contribution page
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Dr Krzysztof Piotr Swientek (AGH University of Science and Technology (PL))04/06/2014, 11:40The multichannel 6-bit ADC ASIC with data serialization was designed in view of LHCb Tracker System Upgrade. The first prototype was designed and fabricated in CMOS 130 nm technology. The main chip components are 8 channels of fast, very low power (<0.5 mW per channel) 6-bit SAR ADCs, data serialization circuitry based on ultra-low power internal PLL and fast SLVS I/O differential interface....Go to contribution page
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Henry Frisch (University of Chicago)04/06/2014, 11:40The Large-Area Picosecond Photo-Detector Collaboration (LAPPD) is currently developing a large-area, modular photo-detector system composed of thin, planar, glass-body modules, each with two 20x20-cm-squared ALD-functionalized MCPs in a chevron geometry. In the case of LAPPD, hermetic sealing between the entrance window and the detector body is complicated by the square shape of the detector...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Md Naimuddin (Delhi University)04/06/2014, 11:40Proton computed tomography (pCT) offers an alternative to x-ray imaging with potential for three dimensional imaging, reduced radiation exposure, and in-situ imaging. The second generation pCT system being developed at Northern Illinois University in collaboration with Fermilab and Delhi University is comprised of a tracking system, a calorimeter or the range detector, data acquisition system,...Go to contribution page
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Arnim Balzer (Universiteit van Amsterdam)04/06/2014, 11:40Future astroparticle physics facilities like CTA [1] and KM3NeT [2] require a relative timing precision better than 1 ns between detector elements separated by up to 100 km. At the same time, fiber-optical links for high-capacity data transfer from detector elements to central processing facilities are needed. The Open Hardware project White Rabbit [3] provides both data and time transfer...Go to contribution page
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Dr Albert Lehmann (University Erlangen-Nuremberg)04/06/2014, 11:40The PANDA experiment at the new FAIR facility at GSI will perform charmonium spectroscopy and search for gluonic excitations using high luminosity antiproton beams from 1.5 to 15 GeV/c. To accomplish the scientific goals a high performance kaon/pion separation up to 4 GeV/c is mandatory. Because of space limitations the main components of the particle identification system will consist of DIRC...Go to contribution page
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Mr Matthew Andrew (University of Hawaii)04/06/2014, 12:00Extremely fast timing from Micro-Channel Plate PhotoMultiplier Tubes (MCP-PMTs) and multi-gigasample per second (GSa/s) waveform sampling ASICs will allow precision timing to play a pivotal role in the next-generation of Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detectors. We have developed a second prototype of the electronics to instrument the Time of Propagation (TOP) counter for the Belle II...Go to contribution page
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eric oberla (uchicago)04/06/2014, 12:00We describe a prototype water-based optical time projection chamber (OTPC), in which tracks of relativistic charged particles are reconstructed using the emitted Cherenkov radiation. The detector is a vertical cylindrical $\sim$40 kg water mass that is instrumented with a combination of 2$\times$2 in$^{2}$ microchannel plate (MCP) photodetectors and 3$\times$3 in$^{2}$ mirrors on the sides,...Go to contribution page
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Mr hiroshi ITO (Chiba University)04/06/2014, 12:00Radioisotope have been emitted around Japan by a nuclear accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in March 2011. A problem is the contaminated water including the atomic nucleus which relatively has a long half-life time such as 90Sr, 137Cs generated from 235U used for nuclear fuel in particular. Particular, since 90Sr has a long...Go to contribution page
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Yosuke Maeda (Kyoto University)04/06/2014, 12:00A novel gamma-ray detector which is highly sensitive to photons but insensitive to neutrons has been developed for the rare neutral-kaon decay experiment (KOTO experiment) at J-PARC. This experiment aims to study the KL->pi0nunubar decay with an electromagnetic calorimeter and hermetic veto detectors surrounding the the decay region. The veto counters located in the beam should be able to...Go to contribution page
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Kazuhiro Agatsuma (Nikhef)04/06/2014, 12:00We will report a study of the phase camera, which is a wave-front sensor of laser. This sensor is utilized for observing phase-modulated laser in an interferometer of gravitational wave (GW) detectors. The GW detectors are well sophisticated apparatus that need accurate position controls for mirrors. The laser modulation/demodulation is used for readout of the mirror displacement in such...Go to contribution page
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Mr Angus Comrie (University of Cape Town)04/06/2014, 12:20A compact scintillation detector, comprising of plastic scintillators capable of pulse shape discrimination, coupled to silicon photomultipliers and digital readout electronics, has been constructed and characterised using a range of neutron and gamma radiation fields with energies between 0.5 and 14 MeV. Experimental measurements will be presented and compared with simulations built using...Go to contribution page
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Elliot Hughes (Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey (US))04/06/2014, 12:20The CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will upgrade the photodetection and readout systems of its hadron calorimeter (HCAL) through the second long shutdown of the LHC in 2018. A central feature of this upgrade is the development of two new versions of the QIE (Charge Integrating Encoder), a Fermilab-designed custom ASIC for measurement of charge from detectors in high-rate...Go to contribution page
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Deepak Gajanana (NIKHEF (NL))04/06/2014, 12:20Physics experiments generally deal with enormous data throughput. The density of the data is increasing with upgrades on the detectors and experiments. Fiber optic communication with its high bandwidth and high capacity provides an effective solution. In experiments like the KM3NeT, cost-effective long haul optical communication is desired. A Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexed (DWDM) based...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Kock Kiam Gan (Ohio State University (US))04/06/2014, 12:20With the first three years of the LHC running complete, ATLAS and CMS are planning to upgrade their innermost tracking layers with more radiation hard technologies. Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) diamond is one such technology. CVD diamond has been used extensively in beam condition monitors as the innermost detectors in the highest radiation areas of BaBar, Belle, CDF and all LHC...Go to contribution page
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Konstantinova Olga (KEK)04/06/2014, 12:20In the J-PARC linac, due to its high intensity H- beam, significant beam loss has been observed at the downstream straight beam line section called ACS (Annular-Coupled Structure linac). The loss is mainly due to a proton which is produced due to double electron stripping of the H^- beam by the residual gas inside the beam pipe, and the titanium beam pipe. We have developed a detector system...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Jos Benschop (ASML)04/06/2014, 14:00
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Dr Dirk Smit (Shell)04/06/2014, 14:30
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Dr York Haemisch (Philips Technologie GmbH)04/06/2014, 15:00The lecture will introduce the concept of disruptive technologies using the example of the Digital Photon Counter (DPC, dSiPM) developed at Philips since 2004. The major characteristics of disruptive technologies will be worked out and examples given. As the development of the technology at Philips was triggered by its potential application in medical imaging, in particular in...Go to contribution page
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Dr Marten Bosma (Amsterdam Scientific Instruments)04/06/2014, 16:20In The Netherlands policy makers have frequently addressed the ‘gap’ between the excellent standing of Dutch fundamental research and the perceived inability to translate that into profitable commercial activities. Although Nikhef’s primary focus is and will be curiosity driven research, pushing the boundaries of the fundamental knowledge, a key intangible societal gain. Nikhef also...Go to contribution page
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Dr Hirokazu Ishino (Okayama University)04/06/2014, 16:20We present our recent developments of Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) for phonon and photon detections. An MKID is a type of superconducting detectors. Cooper-pair breaking caused by deposited energy changes the kinetic inductance of the superconductor. Consisting of LC resonators formed by a thin superconducting metal layer, it detects the energy by sensing the change of the...Go to contribution page
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Dr H. Chagani (University of Minnesota)04/06/2014, 16:20The first phase of the Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) SNOLAB experiment shall consist of a 110 kg array of germanium and silicon athermal phonon detectors. It is expected to reach an order of magnitude better sensitivity than has been achieved so far by the best experiments in the field. The technical challenges of commissioning a payload of this size have led to the...Go to contribution page
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Philippe Gros (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))04/06/2014, 16:20Observation of high-energy sources requires gamma-ray telescopes aboard balloons or satellites to study thermal and non thermal phenomena (black holes, neutron stars, active galactic nuclei, supernovae, supernova remnants, and gamma-ray bursts). In recent years, R&D has been mainly active to improve the sensitivity required for polarimetry. In this context, a concept of a Time Projection...Go to contribution page
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Dr Maurizio Bonesini (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))04/06/2014, 16:20Array of SiPMTs may be used, in place of fast conventional photomultipliers (PMTs), for the readout of scintillator based time-of-flight systems. These new detectors are insensitive to external magnetic fields, have lower cost than traditional PMTs and present a compact design. Comparison of the obtained timing resolutions as respect to the baseline one (~ 50 ps) obtained with Hamamatsu...Go to contribution page
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Federico Izraelevitch (Fermilab)04/06/2014, 16:40DAMIC is a novel dark matter search experiment that has a unique sensitivity to hypothetic dark matter particles with masses below 10 GeV. Due to the CCD's low electronic readout noise (R.M.S. ~ 3 electrons), this instrument is able to reach a detection threshold of 60 eV, suitable for the search in the low mass range. The excellent energy response and high spatial resolution of a CCD image...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Erika Garutti (Univ. Hamburg)04/06/2014, 16:40Abstract–For Hamamatsu silicon-photomultipliers (SiPM) S10362-11-050P before and after irradiation to 200 Gy, 20 kGy, 2 MGy and 20 MGy, forward current–voltage, reverse current–voltage, capacitance/conductance–voltage, capacitance/conductance–frequency, pulse shape and pulse height measurements below and above the breakdown voltage were performed. The data were analysed using an electrical...Go to contribution page
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Sebastien Procureur (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))04/06/2014, 16:40Modern physics experiments require particle detectors with excellent performance, in particular the spatial resolution of trackers. This usually leads to systems with very high numbers of electronic channels, from 10,000 to several millions. All these channels represent a significant cost of an apparatus, even if in many cases the useful signal is concentrated on a small fraction of them, for...Go to contribution page
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Toru Tanimori (Kyoto University)04/06/2014, 16:40For next MeV gamma-ray astronomy, we developed Electron Tracking Compton Camera (ETCC) consisting of a Time projection Chamber and pixel scintillators. By measuring the track of an electron, ETCC measures the direction of gamma-rays as a small arc, which provides a good background rejection using the kinematical test and energy loss rate of the track (particle identification), and clear...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ronald Lipton (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))04/06/2014, 16:40We report on the processing and performance of 3D integrated circuits (3DIC) bonded to silicon sensors. The circuits were part of the Fermilab-sponsored two-tier 0.13 micron run at Tezzaron/ Global Foundries. They include designs for the CMS track trigger, ILC vertex detectors, and x-ray correlation spectroscopy. Sensors were bonded to the 3DICs using die-to-die solder ball bonding as...Go to contribution page
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Francisco Jose Iguaz Gutierrez (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))04/06/2014, 17:00The Spherical Proportional Counter is a novel type of radiation detector, with a low energy threshold (typically below 100 eV) and good energy resolution. This detector is being developed by the network NEWs, which includes several applications. We can name between many others Dark Matter searches, low level radon and neutron counting or low energy neutrino detection from supernovas or nuclear...Go to contribution page
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Karen Byrum (Argonne National Lab)04/06/2014, 17:00The Large Area Picosecond Photo-Detector Collaboration (LAPPD) is currently developing a large-area, modular photo-detector system composed of thin, planar, glass-body modules, each with two 20cm x 20cm ALD-functionalized MCPs in a chevron geometry. The collaboration is working closely with industry partner Incom, Inc. towards the commercialization of this technology. One of the major...Go to contribution page
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Michael Lupberger (University of Bonn)04/06/2014, 17:00Within the LCTPC collaboration several possibilities to build a time projection chamber for a linear collider are studied. In all concepts, micro-pattern gaseous detectors (MPGD) are used as amplification structure. Compared to the traditional pad-based readouts used in most cases, a pixelated TPC is a new approach. Only pixel ASICs can reflect the high granularity of MPGDs from the readout...Go to contribution page
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Massimiliano Fiorini (Universita di Ferrara (IT)), Wander Baldini (Universita di Ferrara (IT))04/06/2014, 17:00An irradiation test on 16 Silicon Photo Multipliers produced by Hamamatsu has been performed in Louvain-la-Neuve at the CRC-CYCLONE 110 facility. The devices has been irradiated with neutrons in three dose steps: 5x10^8 1MeV-neutron equivalent (neq), 5x10^9 neq and 5x10^10 neq. After each irradiation step the characteristic current-voltage curves and a high statistics sample of...Go to contribution page
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Quirin Weitzel (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik Heidelberg)04/06/2014, 17:00The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation ground-based instrument for the detection of cosmic gamma-rays with energies from about 20 GeV up to several hundred TeV. It is envisaged to be comprised of large-, medium- and small-sized telescopes (23m, 10-12m and 4m mirror aperture, respectively). Within the scope of the FlashCam project, a novel camera for the medium-sized...Go to contribution page
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Dr Xander Janssen (VDL ETG Research)04/06/2014, 17:20In contrast to existing linear accelerators (LINAC) based on superconductivity, several institutes are currently developing high gradient LINACs based on normal-conducting cavities. A LINAC based on this technique has some intrinsic advantages over their superconducting cousins e.g. lack the necessity for cryogenic cooling, can obtain larger accelerating gradients and hence allow for a reduced...Go to contribution page
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Alessandro Mapelli (CERN)04/06/2014, 17:20Micro-technologies are being investigated within the Engineering Office of the Detector Technologies Group (PH-DT) in the CERN Physics Department. This effort aims at developing novel types of detectors and implementing alternative approaches to on-detector services benefitting from standard microfabrication techniques. Recently, a new type of scintillation detector based on microfluidics has...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Justin Vandenbroucke (UW Madison)04/06/2014, 17:20The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an atmospheric Cherenkov observatory that will image the cosmos in very-high-energy gamma rays. CTA will study the highest-energy particle accelerators in the Universe and potentially confirm the particle nature of dark matter. We have designed an innovative Schwarzschild-Couder telescope which uses two mirrors to achieve excellent optical performance...Go to contribution page
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Guido Haefeli (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))04/06/2014, 17:20Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are solid state photo detectors that combine all of the features necessary for the photon detection of a high resolution scintillating fibre tracker. Two SiPM manufacturers, Hamamatsu and KETEK have developed customized devices for SciFi Tracker application in the context of the LHCb tracker upgrade. These custom devices provide high photon detection...Go to contribution page
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Dr Xilei Sun (IHEP)04/06/2014, 17:20The dual light-emitting crystals can reflect the different ranges of nuclear recoils and electron recoils by the ratio of the two different scintillation components. CsI(Na) crystals at temperatures of ~-100 ℃ have the best performance in several candidate crystals. An experiment called CINDMS is proposed for WIMPs direct searches based on the CsI(Na) crystals detector by IHEP. The 1T-scale...Go to contribution page
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Mr Ian G. Wisher (University of Wisconsin - Madison)04/06/2014, 17:40The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory, located on the Sierra Negra plateau (4100m a.s.l.) in central Mexico, is currently under construction and scheduled for completion at the end of summer 2014. The detector is comprised of tightly-packed optically-isolated water tanks, each 5 m tall and 7.3 m in diameter, which are instrumented with 4 Hamamatsu photomultiplier tubes. The...Go to contribution page
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Dr Chris Steer (AWE)04/06/2014, 17:40Cosmic ray muon tomography is a novel three-dimensional imaging technique able to image objects in dense or cluttered containers. The technique’s ability to discriminate differing materials relies on the multiple Coulomb scattering of cosmic ray muons and as such depends strongly on the tracking resolution of the detector module. Similarly other detector properties have a strong effect of the...Go to contribution page
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Mr Michael Wagenpfeil (ECAP)04/06/2014, 17:40In modern astroparticle physics, noble gases are often chosen as detector material for a wide range of different experiments. Noble gases can provide a very long electron drift distance which is required for large-scale low-background experiments such as the search for dark matter or for the neutrinoless double beta decay. Due to the higher density, xenon is often used in the liquid instead...Go to contribution page
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Fernando Duarte Ramos (CERN)04/06/2014, 17:40The strict requirements in terms of material budget for the inner region of the CLIC detector concepts require the use of a dry gas for the cooling of the respective sensors. This, in conjunction with the compactness of the inner volumes, poses several challenges for the design of a cooling system that is able to fulfil the required detector specifications. This presentation introduces a...Go to contribution page
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Alexander Ruschke (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen (DE))04/06/2014, 17:40We present the newly developed Position Sensitive Scintillating Muon SiPM -Detector (POSSUMUS). This modular designed scintillation detector is capable to determine particle's position two-dimensional with resolution of a few mm for minimum ionizing particles. POSSUMUS is usable for large area trigger applications with few readout channels. The idea of this detector is to combine...Go to contribution page
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Salleh Ahmad (Weeroc SAS)04/06/2014, 18:00Citiroc is a 32-channel front-end ASIC designed to readout silicon photo-multipliers (SiPM). Citiroc allows triggering down to 1/3 pe and provides the charge measurement with a good noise rejection. Moreover, Citiroc outputs the 32-channel triggers with a high accuracy (100 ps). An adjustment of the SiPM high-voltage is possible using a channel-by-channel DAC connected to the ASIC inputs....Go to contribution page
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Mykhaylo Filipenko (F)04/06/2014, 18:00The solid (crystallin) phase of xenon possesses many of the same advantages of liquid xenon as a particle detector material including good transparency, self-shielding, low intrinsic background, and high scintillation light yield. Many of the properties of solid xenon have been measured previously employing small volumes and thin films. Two major R\&D issues must be addressed to make a solid...Go to contribution page
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Dr Anton Lymanets (University of Tuebingen)04/06/2014, 18:00The CBM experiment at the future Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) will explore the properties of nuclear matter at high net baryon densities and at moderate temperature. The key detector – a Silicon Tracking System (STS) – will reconstruct charged particle tracks created in interactions of heavy-ion beam with nuclear target at projectile energies ranging from 10 to 40...Go to contribution page
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Maksym Titov (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))05/06/2014, 09:00
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Peter Hommelhoff (Univ. of Erlangen and Max Planck for Quantum Optics)05/06/2014, 09:30In free space, efficient momentum transfer over an extended distance between an oscillating field and a massive charged particle is impossible. With a proper boundary, this notion does not hold any longer. We have recently shown that electrons can be continuously accelerated with laser light at a dielectric grating structure. With low-power femtosecond laser pulses at 800 nm we could...Go to contribution page
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Teresa Marrodán Undagoitia (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)05/06/2014, 10:00Detectors using liquid noble gas media like xenon or argon have shown a great potential for direct dark matter searches. Particles interacting with these targets cause the emission of light and free electrons, via excitation and ionization processes, respectively. The pulse shape of the prompt light signal and/or the ratio between light and extracted charge can be used to discriminate between...Go to contribution page
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Diego Tonelli (CERN)05/06/2014, 11:00We present the results of an R\&D study for a specialized processor capable of precisely reconstructing events with hundreds of charged-particle tracks in pixel detectors at 40 MHz, thus suitable for processing LHC events at the full crossing frequency. For this purpose we design and test a massively parallel pattern-recognition algorithm, inspired by studies of the processing of visual...Go to contribution page
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Dr Jan-Willem den Herder (SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research)05/06/2014, 11:00The hot and energetic Universe has been selected by ESA as its next large class mission with a scheduled launch date in 2028. This mission will have a large collecting area (2 m2) with focussing optics and in the focal plane two interchangeable instruments: a Si-based DEPFET detector which is optimised for its field of view and its count rate capability. The second instrument is a...Go to contribution page
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Aria Soha (Fermilab)05/06/2014, 11:00The Fermilab Test Beam Program provides flexible, equal, and open access to test beams for all detector tests, with relatively low bureaucratic overhead and a guarantee of safety, coordination, and oversight. The facility provides a multitude of particle and energy types, as well as an array of instrumentation with an extensive infrastructure. Recently Fermilab went through a 14 month...Go to contribution page
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Enrico Junior Schioppa (NIKHEF (NL))05/06/2014, 11:00In the development of X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) in medical imaging, one is working to implement spectral information. While keeping the dose level the same, or even lower, than in conventional systems, spectral CT offers the possibility to measure energy dependent features of different tissues that will allow the extraction of additional information about the patient, eventually leading...Go to contribution page
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Dr Shruti Shrestha (Physikalisches Institut Heidelberg)05/06/2014, 11:00The Mu3e experiment searches for the lepton flavor violating decay $\mu^{+}\rightarrow e^{+}e^{-}e^{+}$. We are aiming for a sensitivity of one in $10^{16}$ $\mu$-decays. To measure the momentum and vertex position of low momentum electrons (10 - 53 MeV/c) originating from such a rare decay with high precision, a tracking detector built from High-Voltage Monolithic Active Pixel...Go to contribution page
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Peter Goettlicher (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))05/06/2014, 11:20The AGIPD (Adaptive Gain Integrated Pixel Detector) X-ray imaging camera will operate at the X-ray Free Electron Laser, Eu-XFEL, under construction in Hamburg, Germany. Key parameters are 1Mega 200µm square pixels, single 12.4 keV photon detection and a dynamic range to 10000/pixel/image. The developed sensors, ASICs, PCB-electronics and FPGA-firmware acquire individual images per bunch at...Go to contribution page
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Mr Ayaki Takeda (SOKENDAI/KEK)05/06/2014, 11:20We have been developing a monolithic active pixel sensor with the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) CMOS technology for use in future X-ray astronomical satellite mission. Our objective is to replace the X-ray Charge Coupled Device, which is the standard detector in the field, by offering high coincidence time resolution (∼ 50 ns), superior hit-position readout time (∼ 10 μs), and wider bandpass (0.3...Go to contribution page
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Tianyang WANG (IPHC)05/06/2014, 11:20The CMOS pixel sensor (CPS) based on the TowerJazz 180nm CIS process can provide qualified radiation hardness for the ALICE-ITS upgrade. Meanwhile, full CMOS integration in the pixel is achievable due to the availability of deep P-well. Therefore, a novel concept of pixel with integrated discriminator was realized to develop a fast and power efficient rolling shutter CPS architecture for the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Carsten Hast (SLAC)05/06/2014, 11:20We present the current status and plans of the various electron test beams available at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. They span an energy range of a few MeV in our ASTA, mainly used for gun development and RF structure testing, NLCTA, a 120 to 200 MeV linac for free electron laser seeding, dielectric laser acceleration and medical studies, to ESTB, the End Station (A) Test Beam, which...Go to contribution page
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Alex Cerri (University of Sussex (GB))05/06/2014, 11:20The future plans for the LHC accelerator allow, through a schedule of phased upgrades, an increase in the average instantaneous luminosity by a factor 5 with respect to the original design luminosity. The ATLAS experiment at the LHC will be able to maximise the physics potential from this higher luminosity only if the detector, trigger and DAQ infrastructure are adapted to handle the...Go to contribution page
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Igor Rubinskiy (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)-Unknown-Unknown)05/06/2014, 11:40A high resolution ($\sigma \sim 2\mu m$) beam telescope based on monolithic active pixel sensors (MAPS) was developed within the EUDET collaboration. The telescope consists of six monolithic active pixel sensor planes (Mimosa26) with a pixel pitch of 18.4 \mu m and thinned down to 50 \mu m. The excellent resolution, readout rate and DAQ integration capabilities made the telescope a...Go to contribution page
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Hideaki Matsumura (Kyoto University)05/06/2014, 11:40We have been developing X-ray SOIPIXs, monolithic active pixel sensors based on the Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) CMOS technology for next-generation X-ray astronomy satellites. Their high time resolution (~micro sec) and event trigger output function enable us to reduce non-X-ray background by two orders of magnitude at 20 keV, compared with X-ray CCDs widely used in current X-ray astronomy...Go to contribution page
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Dr Bjoern Seitz (University of Glasgow)05/06/2014, 11:40Molecular imaging modalities require sensor systems capable of detecting and identifying gamma rays emitted by radio-tracers as well as providing the complete position information. The combination of dense, new scintillator materials with compact photon detector solutions insensitive to magnetic fields provides a promising prospect to meet the requirements in modern combined molecular imaging...Go to contribution page
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Nicola Neri (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))05/06/2014, 11:40We report on the R&D for a first prototype of a silicon tracker with trigger capabilities based on a novel approach for fast track finding. The working principle is inspired from neurobiology, in particular by the processing of visual images by the brain as it happens in nature. It is based on extensive parallelization of data distribution and pattern recognition. In this work we report on the...Go to contribution page
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Lorenzo Paolozzi (Universita e INFN Roma Tor Vergata (IT))05/06/2014, 11:40The results obtained at BTF (Beam Test Facility) of Frascati with 500 MeV electrons working at single electron mode and with cosmic rays have shown a time resolution of the order of 100 ps with a polycrystalline diamond detector of 1.25 mm total thickness and a surface of 3x3 mm^2 operated at 350 V. To achieve this performance, a new structure of the diamond detector and a dedicated front-end...Go to contribution page
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Martin Richard Jaekel (CERN)05/06/2014, 12:00The high-luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) upgrade is setting a new challenge for particle detector technologies. The increase in luminosity will produce a higher particle background with respect to present conditions. Performance and stability of detectors at LHC and future upgrade systems will remain the subject of extensive studies. The current CERN-Gamma Irradiation Facility (GIF) has been...Go to contribution page
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Fergus Wilson (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))05/06/2014, 12:00We report on the status and performance of the CMOS Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor (MAPS) Cherwell 1 and 2 sensors for the detection of charged particles in vertexing, tracking, and calorimetry applications. Cherwell is a 4-T CMOS sensor in 180 nm technology on a 12um epitaxial substrate with low-noise, low-power, in-pixel correlated double sampling, and high conversion gain. Cherwell...Go to contribution page
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Stefano Gallorini (Universita e INFN (IT))05/06/2014, 12:00The LHCb experiment is entering in its upgrading phase, with its detector and read-out system re-designed to cope with the increased LHC energy after the long shutdown of 2018. In this upgrade, a trigger-less data acquisition is being developed to read-out the full detector at the bunch-crossing rate of 40 MHz. In particular, the High Level Trigger (HLT) system, where the bulk of the trigger...Go to contribution page
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Mr Merlin Kole (KTH - Royal Institute of Technology)05/06/2014, 12:00PoGOLite is a balloon-borne hard X-ray polarimeter. It determines polarisation by measuring the azimuthal angular distribution of Compton scattered photons in a plastic scintillator array. The use of an all plastic target yields a relatively large but low mass detection area. The dominant source of background for the polarisation measurements has been shown through Geant4 simulations to...Go to contribution page
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Dr Salleh Ahmad (Weeroc SAS)05/06/2014, 12:00Triroc is the latest addition to SiPM readout ASICs family developed at Weeroc, a start-up company from the Omega microelectronics group of IN2P3/CNRS. This chip developed under the framework TRIMAGE European project which is aimed for building a cost effective tri-modal PET/MR/EEG brain scan. To ensure the flexibility and compatibility with any SiPM in the market, the ASIC is designed to be...Go to contribution page
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Francisco Jose Iguaz Gutierrez (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))05/06/2014, 12:20After almost 35 years since their suggestion as a good solution to the strong CP-problem, axions remain one of the viable candidates for the Dark Matter, although still eluding detection. Most of the methods for their detection are based on their coupling to photons, one of the most promising ones being the helioscope technique. We will report on the current status of the CERN Axion Solar...Go to contribution page
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Toshinobu Miyoshi (KEK)05/06/2014, 12:20Monolithic pixel detectors using 0.2 um FD-SOI pixel process have been developed since 2006. An SOI wafer is utilized for sensor and electronics. The top silicon is used for SOI-CMOS circuit, and the substrate is used for a radiation sensor. There is a buried oxide layer between two silicon materials, and these are connected each other through Tungsten via. SOI-CMOS circuit has smaller...Go to contribution page
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David Gascon (University of Barcelona (ES)), Juan Trenado Garcia (University of Barcelona (ES))05/06/2014, 12:20This work discusses the capability of a time based readout ASIC, the so-called FlexToT ASIC, to perform Depth of Interaction (DOI) measurements. In particular we will analyse the performance of the ASIC with a Phoswich PET module. FlexToT ASIC is optimized for readout of common cathode Silicon Photo- Multipliers arrays with direct coupling and individual anode voltage control. FlexToT presents...Go to contribution page
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Norman Anthony Graf (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))05/06/2014, 12:20As the complexity and resolution of particle detectors increases, the need for detailed simulation of the experimental setup also increases. We have developed efficient and flexible tools for detailed physics and detector response simulations which build on the power of the Geant4 toolkit but free the end user from any C++ coding. Geant4 is the de facto high-energy physics standard for...Go to contribution page
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Mia Tosi (Universita' degli Studi di Padova e INFN (IT))05/06/2014, 12:20The trigger systems of the LHC detectors play a crucial role in determining the physics capabilities of the experiments. A reduction of several orders of magnitude of the event rate is needed to reach values compatible with detector readout, offline storage and analysis capability. The CMS experiment has been designed with a two-level trigger system: the Level-1 Trigger (L1T), implemented on...Go to contribution page
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henry frisch (university of chicago)05/06/2014, 14:00The precision of large-area spatial measurements has improved dramatically over the last 50 years due to the invention of silicon strip and pixel detectors. The precision of large-area time measurements, however, has only recently started to attract a similar level of attention and investment. The ultimate time resolution of large-area devices is not yet known, but the intrinsic resolution of...Go to contribution page
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Mr Erik Van Der Bij (CERN)05/06/2014, 14:30White Rabbit provides sub-nanosecond accuracy and picoseconds precision of synchronization for large distributed systems. It also allows for deterministic and reliable data delivery at a gigabit rate. The Ethernet-based network can connect thousands of nodes with typical distances of 10 km between nodes while even a 1000 km link is in operation with a lower accuracy. The hardware, firmware and...Go to contribution page
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Colin Barschel (CERN), Massimiliano Ferro-Luzzi (CERN)05/06/2014, 16:10A novel, non-disruptive technique to measure transverse beam shapes was recently demonstrated by the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The technique is based on the detection of beam-gas interaction vertices with a tracking detector and was used in LHCb to obtain a 1.4% precision on the luminosity calibration. A new device, the Beam-Gas Vertex (BGV) system, is now under...Go to contribution page
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Burak Bilki (University of Iowa (US))05/06/2014, 16:10Forward calorimeters in CMS will need to be upgraded for the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) operations, which is planned to be started in 2025. The major challenge is to preserve/improve the high performance of the current forward detectors while designing the detectors considerably radiation hard. This report will concentrate on the need for the upgrade, major challenges and various proposed...Go to contribution page
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Mr Matteo Cardinali (Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz), Dr Matthias Hoek (Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz)05/06/2014, 16:10High-precision single photon timing with resolutions well below 100 ps is becoming increasingly important. It enables new detector designs, like the Time-of-Propagation DIRC of Belle II, or the TORCH upgrade for LHCb, and to improve existing designs, e.g. allow chromatic corrections in DIRCs. These applications have in common a high channel density, limited available space and low power...Go to contribution page
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Mr Christopher Craven (Incom Inc.)05/06/2014, 16:10Manufacturing plans for “next generation” microchannel plates (MCPs) and the technical advantages enabled by this evolving technology will be presented. The Large Area Picosecond Photodetector (LAPPD™) is an MCP based photodetector, capable of imaging, with high spatial and temporal resolution in a hermetic package with an active area of 400 square centimeters. A key component of LAPPD™ is a...Go to contribution page
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Dr Kota Ueshima (Tohoku University RCNS)05/06/2014, 16:10KamLAND-Zen experiment was started data taking from October 2011 to search for neutrino less double beta decay. The Mini-balloon filled with 136Xe loaded liquid scintillator was installed in the KamLAND detector. From the first result of KamLAND-Zen, there was the BG peak at 2.6 MeV region. As a result of data analysis, it was found that 110mAg was the BG candidate. The purification system of...Go to contribution page
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Artur Apresyan (California Institute of Technology (US))05/06/2014, 16:30Current and future high energy physics particle colliders are capable to provide instantaneous luminosities of 1034 cm-2s-1 and above. The high center of mass energy, the large number of simultaneous collision of beam particles in the experiments and the very high repetition rates of the collision events pose huge challenges. They result in extremely high particle fluxes, causing very high...Go to contribution page
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Alfredo Martin Castaneda Hernandez (Texas A & M University (US))05/06/2014, 16:30The CMS experiment is preparing an upgrade of its muon detection system, one of the main purposes is to extend the muon detection capabilities in the very forward region (|eta|>1.6) with the installation of new stations of Cathode Strip Chambers (CSC) and Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detector technologies for the second (2019) and third (2023) CMS upgrade scenarios. With the increase of the...Go to contribution page
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Mr Takuya Yonekura (Nagoya university)05/06/2014, 16:30We developed the micro-channel-plate (MCP) PMT for the Time-of-Propagation (TOP) counter, which is a novel Cherenkov counter to be used for particle identification in the Belle II experiment. The developed MCP-PMT has excellent performance for single photon detection; a timing resolution of about 40ps (sigma, including readout jitter), a nominal gain as high as 2 x 10^6, and a position...Go to contribution page
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Mrs Sylvie BLIN (OMEGA Ecole Polytechnique&CNRS/IN2P3)05/06/2014, 16:30The SPACIROC ASIC is designed for the JEM-EUSO fluorescence-imaging telescope on board of the International Space Station. Its goal is the detection of Extreme Air Showers (EAS) above a few 10^19 eV, developing underneath at a distance of about 400 km, in the troposphere. The SPACIROC family is dedicated to readout 64-channel Multi Anode PMT (MAPMT) or similar detectors. The two main features...Go to contribution page
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Dr Cristina M. B. Monteiro (University of Coimbra) (on behalf of the NEXT Collaboration)05/06/2014, 16:30The NEXT Experiment aims to detect neutrinoless double beta decay using an HPXe TPC based on electroluminescence to be deployed in the Canfranc Underground Laboratory. New-generation experiments for double beta decay detection need to be sensitive to lifetimes longer than 1025 years. One remarkable challenge is the conception of a detector that enables an efficient and unambiguous...Go to contribution page
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Thomas Brunner (S)05/06/2014, 16:50The nature of the neutrino, i.e. whether it is a Dirac or Majorana particle, remains a mystery. Decay experiments that search for the lepton-number violating neutrino-less double decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) are an experimental approach to answer this question. EXO-200 is one such experiment, searching for a $0\nu\beta\beta$ signal in the $\beta\beta$ decay of $^{136}$Xe to its daughter isotope...Go to contribution page
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Dr Kodai Matsuoka (Nagoya University)05/06/2014, 16:50The TOP (Time-Of-Propagation) counter is a novel ring-imaging Cherenkov detector for particle identification in Belle II. Our goal is to identify up to 3 GeV/c kaons and pions with a pion efficiency of 95% and a fake-pion rate of 5% or better. The TOP counter mainly consists of a 2.7 m long quartz radiator bar and 32 micro-channel-plate PMTs. It measures the time of propagation of the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Christophe De La Taille (OMEGA CNRS/IN2P3 et Ecole Polytechnique (FR))05/06/2014, 16:50PETIROC2 is a 32 channel readout ASIC for high speed readout of SiPM matrixes. It features a 1 GHz 20 dB preamp followed by 1 GHz high speed discriminator and time-to-amplitude converter to measure the time down to 50 ps. A variable shaper channel measures the charge over 10 bits and also feeds a discriminator for high level signal trigger. The time and charge signals are digitized internally...Go to contribution page
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Euan Niall Cowie (University of Bristol (GB))05/06/2014, 16:50TORCH (Time Of internally Reflected CHerenkov radiation) is an innovative time-of-flight system designed to provide particle identification over large areas up to a momentum of 10 GeV/c. Cherenkov photons emitted within a 1 cm thick quartz radiator are propagated by internal reflection and imaged on to an array of Micro-Channel Plate photomultiplier tubes (MCPs). Performing 3$\sigma$...Go to contribution page
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Ruslan Asfandiyarov (Universite de Geneve (CH))05/06/2014, 16:50The 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 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 layers....Go to contribution page
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Kay Graf (University of Erlangen)05/06/2014, 17:10The KM3NeT project is a deep-sea research infrastructure that will host a neutrino telescope with a volume of several cubic kilometres as well as Earth and Sea science instrumentation for monitoring the deep Mediterranean Sea. Within the project, a variety of acoustic topics are pursued: from acoustic position calibration of the flexible detector structures of the neutrino telescope over...Go to contribution page
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Karina Martin (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)05/06/2014, 17:10For experiments at VEPP-2000 e+e- collider with SND detector the particle identification system based on the threshold aerogel Cherenkov counters was developed. The counter design is based on ASHIPH technique (Aerogel, SHifter, PHotomultiplier). Cherenkov light emitted in aerogel is collected by a wavelength shifter and detected by a photomultiplier tube based on microchannel plates (MCP...Go to contribution page
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Gabriele Piperno05/06/2014, 17:10The Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay ($0\nu$DBD) is a powerful tool to test physics beyond the Standard Model and to get insights on the Majorana neutrino nature and mass. Bolometers are excellent detectors to search for this rare decay, thanks to their good energy resolution and to the low background conditions in which they can operate. The current challenge consists in the reduction of the...Go to contribution page
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Thomas Kirn (Rheinisch-Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))05/06/2014, 17:10In high energy physics experiments tracking detectors consisting of scintillating fibers readout by linear arrays of silicon photomultipliers have become a competitive alternative to silicon strip detectors. The modules produced at the I$^{st}$ Physics Institute of RWTH Aachen University are made out of ribbons of 0.25~mm diameter scintillating fibers. Ribbons with different...Go to contribution page
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Matthew Noy (CERN)05/06/2014, 17:10The TDCPix is a hybrid pixel detector readout ASIC designed for the NA62 GigaTracker detector. The requirements are a single-hit timing resolution better than 200ps RMS, a hit loss of less than 1% in the presence of a (highly non-uniform) beam rate up to 1MHz/cm^2. This hit rate leads to an expected data rate at the output of the chip which can reach 6Gb/s. The TDCPix comprises an...Go to contribution page
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Claudio Gotti (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))05/06/2014, 17:30The CLARO-CMOS is a prototype ASIC that allows fast photon counting with 5 ns peaking time, a recovery time to baseline smaller than 25 ns, and a power consumption of about 1 mW per channel. This chip is capable of single-photon counting with multi-anode photomultiplier tubes (Ma-PMTs), and finds applications also in the read-out of silicon photomultipliers and microchannel plates. The...Go to contribution page
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Jacqueline Yan (T)05/06/2014, 17:30The Shintake Monitor is an essential beam tuning device installed at the interaction point of ATF2 to measure its nm order vertical e- beam sizes (σy*). It is crucial for verifying ATF2’s Goal 1 of focusing σy* down to 37 nm in order to verify a final focus system of linear colliders featuring the Local Chromaticity Correction scheme. The e- beam collides with a target of laser interference...Go to contribution page
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Andrey Elagin (University of Chicago)05/06/2014, 17:30We present initial studies of a technique for separating scintillation and Cherenkov light in a large liquid scintillator detector in order to reconstruct directionality for electrons with energies typical of neutrino-electron scattering (5 MeV) and double-beta decay (2.1 MeV and 1.4 MeV). On average scintillation light is delayed with respect to the direct Cherenkov light due to...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Martin Pohl (Universite de Geneve (CH))06/06/2014, 09:00I will review the transfer of technology from accelerator-based particle detection to space-borne astroparticle physics. Requirements for detection, identification and measurement of ions, electrons and photons in space will be recalled. The additional requirements and restrictions imposed by the launch process in manned and unmanned space flight, as well as by the hostile environment in orbit...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Andrey Baryshev (SRON)06/06/2014, 09:30
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Prof. Lex Kaper (UVA)06/06/2014, 10:00The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is now entering the construction phase of what will be the world’s largest optical/near-IR telescope, the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). With a 39-m primary aperture, the E-ELT is the most ambitious ground-based optical/near-IR facility currently forseen, and will provide astronomers with unprecedented sensitivity and spatial resolution. The...Go to contribution page
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Edouard Kistenev (Department of Physics)06/06/2014, 11:00The PHENIX Experiment at RHIC is planning a series of major upgrades that will transform the current PHENIX detector into a new detector, sPHENIX, which will be used to carry out a systematic measurement of jets in heavy ion collisions in order to study the phase transition of normal nuclear matter to the Quark Gluon Plasma near its critical temperature. The baseline design of sPHENIX will...Go to contribution page
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Marius Wensing (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE))06/06/2014, 11:00The ATLAS experiment is the the largest of the four LHC experiments. Currently its Pixel-Detector is being upgraded with a new innermost 4th layer, the Insertable b-Layer (IBL). The upgrade will result in better tracking efficiency and compensate radiation damages of the Pixel-Detector. Newly developed front-end electronics (FE-I4) will require a complete re-design of the...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Laktineh Laktineh (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR))06/06/2014, 11:00New generation of RPC using semi-conductive plates could provide an excellent choice for the upgrade of LHC muon detectors. These cost-effective GRPC stand high particle rate. The excellent timing they can provide could allow to improve on the trigger rate and reduce the pileup consequences of the LHC luminosity increase. Single and multi-gap GRPC using low-resistivity glass are being...Go to contribution page
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Tetsuichi Kishishita (University of Bonn)06/06/2014, 11:00The Belle II experiment, which will start after 2015 at the Super-KEKB accelerator in Japan, will focus on the precision measurement of the CP-violation mechanism and on the search for physics beyond the Standard Model. To cope with considerably increased background, a pixel vertex detector (PXD) based on DEPFET technology has been developed. The PXD consists of two layers of DEPFET sensor...Go to contribution page
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Valentina Scotti06/06/2014, 11:00EUSO-Balloon is a pathfinder mission for JEM-EUSO (Extreme Universe Space Observatory on-board the Japanese Experiment Module), the near-UV telescope proposed to be installed on board the International Space Station (ISS) before the end of this decade. The main objective of this pathfinder mission is to perform a full scale end-to-end test of all the key technologies and instrumentation of...Go to contribution page
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Dezso Varga (Wigner RCP)06/06/2014, 11:20The Close Cathode Chamber (CCC) is an asymmetric Multi-Wire Proportional Chamber (MWPC), which, owing to its specifically optimized field structure, has key advantages relative to the classical MWPC design. The CCC contains alternating field wires and anode (sense) wires, and the wire plane is asymmetric with respect to two parallel planes, being as close as 1.5mm typically to one of the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Michael Cooney (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)06/06/2014, 11:20Readout of micro-channel plate detectors using cross strip anodes require low noise, fast charge sensitive amplifier (CSA) front-end electronics. The goal of this CSA project is to improve noise and shaping time from the "PreShape32" amplifier ASIC of the RD-20 collaboration at CERN, presently used in the readout system. A target noise of 100e- + 50e-/pF (<1000e- noise overall) with <100ns...Go to contribution page
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Dr Angelo Cruciani (University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy)06/06/2014, 11:20Millimetre-wave astronomical observations have an enormous discovery potential in the study of the earliest stages of the evolution of the universe, clusters of galaxies, high redshift objects, and star formation regions. One of the challenges today is to perform observations with the finest angular resolution, in order to accurately investigate the nature of these astrophysical sources....Go to contribution page
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Shaw-Pin Chen (University of Washington (US))06/06/2014, 11:20The ATLAS Experiment is reworking and upgrading systems during the current LHC shut down. In particular, the Pixel detector is inserting an additional inner layer called Insertable B-Layer (IBL). The Readout-Driver card (ROD), the Back-of-Crate card (BOC), and the S-Link together form the essential frontend data path of the IBL’s off-detector DAQ system. The strategy for IBLROD firmware...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ivano Sarra (LNF INFN Frascati, Italy)06/06/2014, 11:20The Mu2e experiment at FNAL aims to measure the charged-lepton flavor violating neutrinoless conversion of of a negative muon into an electron. The conversion results in a monochromatic electron with an energy slightly below the rest mass of the muon (104.97 MeV). The calorimeter should confirm that the candidates reconstructed by the extremely precise tracker system are indeed...Go to contribution page
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Mr Aleksandr Kotelnikov (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)06/06/2014, 11:40The real-time processing of the electron beam parameters is a necessary procedure to optimize the key characteristics of the synchrotron radiation source using feedback loops. The actual problem is to study multi-bunch beam instabilities. To solve this problem a high-speed electron beam profile monitor is developed. This device includes a photodetector unit and signal recorder. The...Go to contribution page
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Dr Guido Volpi (Sezione di Pisa (IT))06/06/2014, 11:40The associative memory (AM) system is a computing device made of hundreds of AM ASICs chips designed to perform “pattern matching” at very high speed. Since each AM chip stores a data base of 130000 pre-calculated patterns and large numbers of chips can be easily assembled together, it is possible to produce huge AM banks. Speed and size of the system are crucial for real-time High Energy...Go to contribution page
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clarence chang (Argonne National Lab)06/06/2014, 11:40Advances in CMB instrumentation have opened a new era for studying fundamental physics through precision measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). CMB measurements are critical for our understanding of cosmology and provides a unique probe of Dark Energy, the Cosmic Neutrino Background, and the physics of inflation. The South Pole Telescope (SPT) collaboration has been...Go to contribution page
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Alhussain abuhoza (GSI)06/06/2014, 11:40A very accurate apparatus has been constructed and commissioned at the GSI detector laboratory, which will be dedicated for many objectives. Among these objectives; investigation of the ageing phenomena of high rate gaseous detectors, the ageing influences of the construction materials of the gaseous detectors, long term monitoring of gaseous detectors tolerance, planned to be used in The...Go to contribution page
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Marco Incagli (Sezione di Pisa (IT))06/06/2014, 11:40The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) is a high-energy particle detector deployed on the International Space Station (ISS) since May 19, 2011 to conduct a long-duration mission on fundamental physics research in space. The main scientific goals of the mission are the detection of antimatter and dark matter through the study of the spectra and fluxes of protons, electrons, nuclei until the...Go to contribution page
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Massimiliano Fiorini (Universita di Ferrara (IT))06/06/2014, 12:00We describe a pilot project for the use of GPUs (Graphics processing units) in online triggering applications for high energy physics experiments. General-purpose computing on GPUs is emerging as a new paradigm in several fields of science, although so far applications have been tailored to the specific strengths of such devices as accelerator in offline computation. With the steady...Go to contribution page
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Giuseppe Finocchiaro (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati dell’INFN)06/06/2014, 12:00The Belle II experiment will operate at the SuperKEKB e+e− collider, designed to reach a peak luminosity of 8×10^35 cm−2 s−1 at the Ypsilon(4S). The high background environment of SuperKEKB poses serious challenges to the design of the Belle II detector. In particular, an upgrade of the forward Electromagnetic Calorimeter is foreseen: the new calorimeter will use pure CsI crystals, which...Go to contribution page
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Dr Yasuto Hori (KEK)06/06/2014, 12:00POLARBEAR-2 (PB-2) is a new receiver system which will be mounted on the Simons Array telescope in early 2015 for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization measurements at the Atacama desert in Chile. The main science goal is to detect or set an upper limit of the inflationary gravitational wave B-mode. Another important topic is to probe the large scale structure in the universe and...Go to contribution page
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Ms Diana Carolina Herrera Muñoz (University of Zaragoza)06/06/2014, 12:00Electron-ion recombination is experimentally studied in Xe+trimethylamine mixtures, motivated by its potential use for directional dark matter searches. A time projection chamber of 2.4 l with a novel configuration formed by two symmetric drift regions with two microbulk-Micromegas readouts is used to measure the recombination of $\alpha$- and $\gamma$-particles, which are emitted in...Go to contribution page
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Dominik Dannheim (CERN)06/06/2014, 12:00The CLIC vertex detector must have excellent spatial resolution, full geometrical coverage extending to low polar angles, extremely low mass, low occupancy facilitated by time-tagging, and sufficient heat removal from sensors and readout. These considerations, together with the physics needs and beam structure of CLIC, push the technological requirements to the limits and imply a very...Go to contribution page
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Aran Mol (I)06/06/2014, 12:20A self-contained gamma radiation spectrometer with embedded and automated temperature stabilization and full spectral analysis is presented. It consists of a crystal and PMT setup that is read-out using fast ADC and FPGA technology. The maximum dead-time has been established at 1.14 us and the energy resolution at 662 keV is 7%. Full spectral analysis has been implemented for naturally...Go to contribution page
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Mr Klaus Weidenhaupt (RWTH Aachen University)06/06/2014, 12:20The Pierre Auger Observatory detects ultra-high energy cosmic rays by measuring extensive air showers induced in the earth's atmosphere. Besides established detection techniques using a 3000 km2 array of particle detectors sampling shower particles at ground level, and detecting fluorescence light emitted during the shower development with telescopes, the Observatory explores the potential of...Go to contribution page
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Massimiliano De Gaspari (CERN)06/06/2014, 12:20Timepix3 is a unique ASIC developed to provide fast readout in a low to medium hit rate environment. The pixel matrix consists of 256x256 pixels with a pitch of 55μm. The chip can be configured in either data driven or frame-based modes. In data driven mode the chip sends out a 48-bit package every time a pixel is hit while the shutter is open. This packet contains 18bits of Time-Of-Arrival...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ryu Sawada (ICEPP, the University of Tokyo)06/06/2014, 12:20The MEG experiment yielded the most stringent upper limit on the branching ratio of the flavor-violating muon decay $\mu\rightarrow e\gamma$. A major upgrade of the detector is planned to improve the sensitivity by one order of magnitude. For the upgrade, 2-inch round-shape photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) on the entrance window will be replaced by $12\times12$ cm${}^2$ Multi-Pixel Photon...Go to contribution page
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erik ramberg (Fermilab)06/06/2014, 14:00A recent study showed background limits to future dark matter searches coming from Coherent Elastic Neutrino Nucleus Scattering (CENNS) interactions of astrophysical and atmospheric neutrinos. There are a few possible ways to improve the limits by using directional measurements of the neutrino interactions and/or measuring time variation of the interactions. However, this CENNS background...Go to contribution page
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Dr Anastasios Belias (NCSR Demokritos), Dr Konstantinos Manolopoulos (NCSR Demokritos)06/06/2014, 14:00KM3NeT is a deep-sea neutrino telescope of very large scale (several km3) to be deployed and operated in the Mediterranean Sea. Neutrino-induced charged particles are detected by measuring their Cherenkov light in sea-water, using photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) inside transparent and pressure resistant spherical enclosures. The aim is to instrument several km3 of sea volume with tens of...Go to contribution page
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Mr Shuichi Iwata (Tokyo Metropolitan University)06/06/2014, 14:00For the Belle II experiment at the superKEKB accelerator, we have been developing a proximity focusing ring imaging Cherenkov detector using a silica aerogel as a radiator (A-RICH). This counter is designed to be used at the forward endcap region and to have pion/kaon separation with more than 4-sigma deviations at momenta up to 4 GeV/c. 144-channel Hybrid Avalanche Photo-Detector (HAPD)...Go to contribution page
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Alexandra Junkes (Hamburg University (DE))06/06/2014, 14:00The CMS tracker collaboration is aiming to identify the best suited silicon materials and sensor thicknesses for future tracking detectors for the high luminosity phase of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC). Therefore, a large material investigation and irradiation campaign was initiated. \\% A variety of silicon $p-in-n$ and $n-in-p$ test-sensors made from Float Zone (FZ), Magnetic...Go to contribution page
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Shunsuke Honda (University of Tsukuba (JP))06/06/2014, 14:00We are developing monolithic pixel sensors based on a 0.2 um fully-depleted Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) technology. Such sensors have properties such as high-speed operation, low-power dissipation, and SEU/SET immunity. The major issue in applications them in high-radiation environments is the total ionization damage (TID) effects. The effects are rather substantial in the SOI devices since the...Go to contribution page
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Mr Mykhaylo Filipenko (Erlangen Center for Astroparticle Physics - ECAP)06/06/2014, 14:20Many experiments, especially low-background experiments like the search for neutrinoless double beta decay, and applications, like Compton-imaging, would highly benefit from a room-temperature semiconductor voxel detector technology. A voxel detector is a 2D pixelated device which is able to determine the 3d coordinate (the depth of interaction) in every pixel. Thus, it can be used to...Go to contribution page
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Stefano Levorato (INFN Trieste)06/06/2014, 14:20Architectures based on MicroPattern Gas Detectors (MPGD) represent a possible answer to the quest for novel gaseous counters with single photon detection capability able to overcome all the limitations of the present generation of gaseous photon detectors. In Cherenkov imaging counters, gaseous photon detectors are still the unique option when insensitivity to magnetic field, low material...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Zhen-An Liu (IHEP)06/06/2014, 14:20An unified overall readout and optical high speed data transmission, called Belle2link, has been designed for use between Front-End electronics of all sub-detectors and the backend data acquisition in the Belle II experiment at KEK, Japan. These links provide not only a good electrical isolation, but also a bidirectional centralized data collection and command distribution. Further more the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Daniela Calvo (INFN - Sezione di Torino)06/06/2014, 14:20Daniela Calvo on behalf of the PANDA MVD group. The fixed target experiment PANDA is one essential part of the FAIR facility in Darmstadt and is going to study the interactions of antiproton beams, featuring unprecedented quality and intensity, on protons and on nuclei. It includes the Micro Vertex Detector (MVD) [1], as innermost detector of the tracking system, specially able to detect...Go to contribution page
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Mr Stefan Petrovics (Semiconductor Laboratory of the Max-Planck Society)06/06/2014, 14:20Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) are a promising candidate for replacing conventional photomultiplier tubes in many applications, thanks to ongoing developments and advances in their technology. A drawback of conventional SiPMs is their limited fill factor caused by the need for a high ohmic polysilicon quench resistor and its metal lines on the surface of the devices, which in turn limits the...Go to contribution page
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Delia Tosi (UW Madison / WIPAC)06/06/2014, 14:40The IceCube neutrino observatory is composed of more than five thousand Digital Optical Modules (DOMs), installed on the surface and at depths between 1500 and 2500 m in clear ice at the South Pole. Each DOM incorporates a 10” diameter photomultiplier tube (PMT) intended to detect light emitted when high energy neutrinos interact with atoms in the ice. Depending on the energy of the neutrino...Go to contribution page
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Yang ZHOU (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (FR))06/06/2014, 14:40The need for miniaturized and versatile real-time radiation monitors has become a general trend for spacecraft applications. It requires a highly integrated detection system with the ability to identify ion species in a high flux mixed environment. We have proposed [1] a new strategy to meet these requirements with a single CMOS pixel chip. This sensor is based on a matrix of 50×50 µm2...Go to contribution page
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Katsuro Nakamura (KEK)06/06/2014, 14:40The Silicon Vertex Detector (SVD) is one of the main detectors in the Belle II experiment (KEK, Japan) which takes essential roles in the decay-vertex determination, low-energy-track reconstruction, and background rejection. The SVD consists of four layers of Double-sided Silicon Strip Detectors (DSSD) and is being developed toward the start of the Belle II experiment in 2016. Due to more...Go to contribution page
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Dr Daniele Vivolo (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II and INFN Napoli)06/06/2014, 14:40Vacuum Silicon PhotoMultiplier Tube (VSiPMT) is an innovative photodetector based on the combination of SiPM and PMT technologies. The basic idea consists in replacing the classical dynode chain of a PhotoMultiplier Tube with a SiPM. Such a design was proposed by our group in order to match the goal of a large photocathode sensitive area with the unrivalled photon counting performances of...Go to contribution page
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Blake Leverington (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))06/06/2014, 14:40The Scintillating Fibre (SciFi) Tracker is designed to replace the current downstream tracking detectors in the LHCb Upgrade during 2018 (CERN/LHCC 2014-001; LHCb TDR 15). The operation and the results obtained from the data collected 2011 and 2012 demonstrate that the current detector is robust and functioning very well. However, the limit of $\mathcal{O}($1 fb$^{-1}$) of data per year...Go to contribution page
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Ourania Sidiropoulou (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki (GR))06/06/2014, 15:00A DAQ system based on custom electronics (Scalable Readout System - SRS) has been developed inside the Micro Pattern Gaseous Detector community (RD51 Collaboration) in the recent years and is now being upgraded for large scale applications using the Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) platform. We present the development and test of a readout system which consists of...Go to contribution page
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Kota Kasahara (University of Tsukuba (JP))06/06/2014, 15:00We develop superconducting tunnnel junction (STJ) to search for radiative decays of cosmic background neutrino using cosmic infrared background energy spectrum. The requirement for performance of the detector in our experiment is to detect a single far-infrared photon. We can detect a single far-infrared photon with Nb/Al-STJ theoretically. So far we have not succeeded in detecting it yet...Go to contribution page
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Diego Gonzalez Diaz (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))06/06/2014, 15:00Microbulk-Micromegas constitutes a new generation of Micromegas (MICRO MEsh GAseous Structure) used for the detection and tracking of particles. Its simplicity, inherited from its constituent element --a double copper-clad kapton foil--, enhances its radiopurity, making it particularly well suited for Rare Event searches. The energy resolution is amongst the best obtained with Micro-Pattern...Go to contribution page
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Mr Robert Klanner (University of Hamburg)06/06/2014, 15:00The response of p+n strip sensors to electrons from a 90Sr source and focussed laser light with different wave lengths was measured using the ALiBaVa read-out system. The measurements were performed over a period of several weeks, during which a number of operating conditions were varied. The sensors were fabricated by Hamamatsu on 200 µm thick float-zone silicon. Their pitch is 80 µm, and...Go to contribution page
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Christophe Goetzmann (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (FR))06/06/2014, 15:00The CMS tracker is the largest silicon detector ever built, covering 200 square meters and providing an average of 14 high-precision measurements per track. Tracking is essential for the reconstruction of objects like jets, muons, electrons and tau leptons starting from the raw data from the silicon pixel and strip detectors. Track reconstruction is widely used also at trigger level as it...Go to contribution page
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Ms Mika Kagaya (Ibaraki University)06/06/2014, 15:20We developed a Compton camera γI (Gamma Eye) using CsI (Tl) scintillators for measurement of arrival direction of gamma rays produced by radioactive cesium released into the environment from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident due to the great east Japan earthquake and subsequent tsunamis in 2011. The radiation exposure of residents remains extremely a serious problem in...Go to contribution page
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Zhen-An LIU (I)06/06/2014, 15:20This talk briefs the development of instrumentation for particle physics experiment based on the ATCA/MTCA/xTCA specifications. Examples includes hardware for LLRF, Compute Node(ATCA compatible) for PANDA experiment, Lumird for BESIII Luminosity readout, Compute Node(xTCA compatible) for DEPFET/PXD detector, digitizer and trigger for TREND experiment. discussion on the back-end readout...Go to contribution page
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Michael DuVernois (University of Wisconsin)06/06/2014, 15:20The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA), currently under construction at the South Pole, is a large-scale cosmogenic neutrino detector designed to observe the coherent radio pulses associated with neutrino-induced cascades in the radio-transparent cold Antarctic ice. The detector incorporates novel bore-hole antenna designs, RF over fiber technology, custom ASIC digitizer, FPGA-based triggering, and...Go to contribution page
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Dean Andrew Hidas (Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey (US))06/06/2014, 15:20The Pixel Luminosity Telescopes (PLT) will be the first dedicated luminosity monitor installed in the CMS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. It is designed to measure the bunch-by-bunch relative luminosity to high precision. It consists of a set of small angle telescopes each with three planes of pixel sensors. The full PLT will be installed in CMS for the first full energy...Go to contribution page
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Lorenzo Massa (University of Bologna and INFN (IT))06/06/2014, 15:20This report presents a project for the upgrade of the Level-1 muon trigger in the barrel-endcap transition region (1.0<|ƞ|<1.3) of the ATLAS detector with RPC chambers. The ATLAS Level-1 muon trigger rate is dominated by fake triggers in the Endcap region (|ƞ|>1) caused by charged particles originating from secondary interactions downstream of the interaction point. After the LHC phase-1...Go to contribution page
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Auke-Pieter Colijn (NIKHEF (NL)), Els Koffeman (NIKHEF (NL))06/06/2014, 16:30
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Isabella Garzia (INFN)Sensors: 1c) Gaseous DetectorsPosterWe are developing a low mass, cylindrical GEM detector with analog readout for the inner tracker upgrade of the BESIII experiment at the BEPC-II e+e- collider. The GEM detector will replace the current inner drift chamber that is suffering early aging due to the increase of the machine luminosity. The new inner tracker is expected to match the momentum resolution (σpt/Pt~0.5% at 1 GeV) and...Go to contribution page
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eric oberla (uchicago)Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition SystemsPosterA data acquisition (DAQ) system using the 10 - 15 Gigasample/second (GSa/s) PSEC4 waveform recording Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) has been developed as part of the Large Area Picosecond Photo-Detector Collaboration (LAPPD). The LAPPD collaboration is developing 20$\times$20 cm$^2$ glass-body micro-channel plate (MCP) photomultiplier tubes equipped with an economical 1.5...Go to contribution page
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Dr Michael Cooney (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)Data-processing: 3a) Front-end ElectronicsPosterTo accurately reconstruct the charge cloud centroid from a microchannel plate (MCP) photon event with a cross strip anode readout, a fast sampling ADC is required. The digitization chip, HalfGraph, is an 8 channel, 12 bit Wilkinson based ADC manufactured on a 0.25um TSMC CMOS process. Each channel has 32 samples with 2048 addressable storage cells and over threshold triggering capability. The...Go to contribution page
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Claudio Gotti (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))Experiments: 2c) Detectors for neutrino physicsPosterExperiments searching for rare nuclear events, such as the neutrinoless double beta decay, need to operate for several years in order to reach the required sensitivity. The readout electronics for such systems must guarantee stable operation during the whole data taking phase. Major experiments in the field are CUORE and LUCIFER, both based on macrobolometers and currently under construction...Go to contribution page
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Mr Futian Liang (University of Science and Technology of China), Ge Jin (Univ. of Science & Tech. of China (CN)), Ms Xin Gao (University of Science and Technology of China), Mr Yuan Yao (University of Science and Technology of China), Ziru Sang (University of Science and Technology of China)Technology transfer: 5a) Industry LiaisonsPosterThe Direct Detection Doppler Wind LIDAR (DWL) is of great significance in the study of global wind measurements and climatology. The DWL adopting double-edge technique of Fabry-Perot etalon requires outgoing laser frequency to fall on the abrupt linear region of the transmittance curve of F-P etalon. Vibration and temperature variation would cause frequency shift, which will further induce...Go to contribution page
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Alberto Collu (Universita e INFN (IT))Experiments: 2a) Experiments & UpgradesPosterALICE is the LHC experiment dedicated to the study of the properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma in nucleus-nucleus interactions at LHC energies. In order to improve the ALICE physics capabilities, the apparatus will be substantially upgraded during the LHC Long Shutdown 2 (LS2). In particular, the Inner Tracking System will be replaced by a new detector based on an innovative radiation...Go to contribution page
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Andrea Triossi (Universita e INFN (IT))Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition SystemsPosterThe CMS muon trigger will undergo considerable enhancements during Phase I upgrade. In order to improve rate reduction and efficiency the full muon trigger chain will be completely redesigned: the plan is to move from a redundant scheme, where the three subdetectors (CSC, DT, RPC) have a separate track finder, to three geographical track finders (barrel, endcap and overlap) that combine...Go to contribution page
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Dr Federico Ravotti (CERN)Experiments: 2a) Experiments & UpgradesPosterThe proton and mixed-field irradiation facilities in the CERN PS East Area (known as IRRAD1 and IRRAD2), were heavily and successfully exploited for irradiation of particle detectors, electronic components and materials since 1992. These facilities exploited the particle bursts - protons with momentum of 24GeV/c - delivered from the PS accelerator in “spills” of about 400ms (slow extraction)....Go to contribution page
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Miki Nishimura (The University of Tokyo)Sensors: 1d) Photon DetectorsPosterThe MEG experiment searches for the charged lepton flavor violation, $\mu$ $\rightarrow$ e$\gamma$ decay, with an unprecedented sensitivity which is expected to occur in the context of the new physics beyond standard models. The upgrade of the experiment (MEG-II) is planned to improve the sensitivity by another order of magnitude with a higher beam intensity and improved detector performance....Go to contribution page
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Laszlo Olah (Eötvös Loránd University and Wigner RCP of the HAS)Sensors: 1c) Gaseous DetectorsPosterA portable tracking detector for muon radiography experiments Cosmic muon radiography is a tool for examination of large scale objects via proper measurement of the absorption of the atmospheric muons. In this application of particle physics detectors standard HEP techniques encounter new challenges. The REGARD group of Wigner RCP (Budapest) has developed a portable muon...Go to contribution page
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Cristian Alejandro Fuentes Rojas (CERN)Data-processing: 3a) Front-end ElectronicsPosterThe vertex detector is the innermost detector at the proposed CLIC linear electron-positron collider. It is composed of several layers of pixel sensors and readout ASICs, and the barrel region is made of “ladders”. The precision physics requirements limit the material budget for sensors, readout, support, cooling and cabling to less than 0.2% of a radiation length (X0) per detection layer....Go to contribution page
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Borislav Milanovic (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Institute of Nuclear Physics (IKF))Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition SystemsPosterThe Compressed Baryonic Matter Experiment (CBM) will be installed at the SIS-100/SIS-300 accelerators of the FAIR facility, which is currently under construction at Darmstadt, Germany. Its purpose is the study of hadronic matter in the region of highest net baryon density with rare probes, e.g. open charm particles. To reconstruct those particles, a Micro Vertex Detector (MVD)...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ming Zeng (Tsinghua University)Sensors: 1b) Semiconductor DetectorsPosterIn past years, BLM systems have been designed and implemented for the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF) and the National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory. The Bergoz BLM detector and direct-readout Si-PIN BLM detector were mixed used in the BLM systems, for different monitoring purpose of the linac, the booster and the storage ring. Si-PIN detector is excellent as it can get...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ming Zeng (Tsinghua University), Dr Zhi Zeng (Tsinghua University)Sensors: 1d) Photon DetectorsPosterA prototype of LaBr3:Ce in situ gamma-ray spectrometer for marine environmental monitoring is developed and applied for marine measurement. A 2-inch LaBr3:Ce scintillator is used in the detector, and a digital pulse process electronics is chosen as the pulse height analyzer. Both Ethernet and RS-485 are implemented as the data and control interface of the system, and a GPS module is also...Go to contribution page
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Mr Daehee Lee (KAIST)Experiments: 2b) Astrophysics and Space InstrumentationPosterThe impact from radiation to complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) circuit which is used as read out circuit for high energy experiments or space satellite has been categorized into two problems: Total ionizing dose (TID) reflecting the long-period-time effects exists and the other is the single event effects (SEE) characterizing short time result. TID effect makes threshold voltages...Go to contribution page
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Giulio Aielli (Universita e INFN Roma Tor Vergata (IT))Experiments: 2a) Experiments & UpgradesPosterThe architecture of the present trigger system in the ATLAS muon barrel was designed according to a reference luminosity of 1034 cm-2 s-1 with a safety factor of 5 with respect to the simulated background rates, confirmed by the 2012 data. In the HL-LHC conditions, we expect a luminosity of 5x1034 cm-2 s-1 and a rate about an order of magnitude higher than the present one. This, while...Go to contribution page
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Tatsuhiko Tomita (Kyushu University)Sensors: 1a) CalorimetryPosterThe International Large Detector(ILD) is a proposed detector for the International Linear Collider(ILC). It has been designed to achieve an excellent Jet Energy Resolution by using Particle Flow Algorithms (PFA), which rely on the ability to separate nearby particles within jets. PFA requires calorimeters with high granularity. The ILD Electromagnetic Calorimeter(ECAL) is a sampling...Go to contribution page
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Jingbo Ye (Southern Methodist University, Department of Physics)Data-processing: 3a) Front-end ElectronicsPosterWe report the development of a VCSEL driver based on a commercial 0.25-micron silicon-on-sapphire CMOS technology. The driver is designed with a speed of 8 Gb/s with I2C configuration. The QFN packaged prototype measures up to 10 Gb/s in a miniature dual channel optical transmitter module called MTx. The ASIC and the custom MTx are prototypes for an optical link that is under development to...Go to contribution page
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Boxiang YuExperiments: 2a) Experiments & UpgradesPosterThis talk introduces the aging experiment of JUNO (Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory) liquid scintillator (LS) with several containers. JUNO will need 20kt LS, and energy resolution of detector reach to 3%/E and LS detector will run 10-15 years, so LS stability and compatibility in containers is very important. The method and results of LS aging with containers are reported.Go to contribution page
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Dr Alexandre Dyshkant (Northern Illinois University)Sensors: 1a) CalorimetryPosterThe CALICE collaboration has been developing calorimetry for particle flow algorithms based detectors. To measure particle shower development, a finely segmented calorimeter optimized for PFA must consist of millions of channels. A scintillator-based calorimeter with cells of size 30 x 30 x 3 mm3 and read out with silicon photo-multipliers (SiPMs) shows great promise. The construction and...Go to contribution page
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Yasuyuki Okumura (University of Chicago (US))Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition SystemsPosterThe Pulsar II is an FPGA-based full mesh enabled ATCA general purpose processor board, its design is motivated by the silicon-based tracking trigger needs for LHC experiments. Some of the main challenges of silicon-based tracking trigger are the complex data dispatching and the pattern recognition and track fitting. Data dispatching is where the hits from many thousands silicon modules must be...Go to contribution page
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Michelle Stancari (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)Sensors: 1b) Semiconductor DetectorsPosterBetween Run II commissioning in early 2001 and the end of operations in September 2011, the Tevatron collider delivered 12 inverse femtobarns of proton-antiproton collisions to the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF). During that time, the CDF silicon vertex detector was subject to radiation doses of up to 12 Mrad. After the end of operations, the silicon detector was annealed for...Go to contribution page
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Dr anil mane (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439)Experiments: 2c) Detectors for neutrino physicsPosterMicrochannel plates (MCPs) are excellent electron amplifiers and when incorporated into photodetectors they provide a combination of unique properties such as high gain, high spatial resolution, high temporal resolution and low dark current. MCPs can be used in wide variety of applications such as imaging spectroscopy, photodetectors for high energy physics and astronomy, time-of-flight mass...Go to contribution page
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Masaki Hori (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics)Experiments: 2a) Experiments & UpgradesPosterMetastable pionic helium atoms $\pi{\rm He}^+$ are heretofore hypothetical three-body Coulomb systems composed of a helium nucleus, an electron occupying the 1s ground state, and a $\pi^-$ occupying a Rydberg state, with principal and orbital angular momentum quantum numbers of around $n\sim\ell+1=16$ [1-2]. The atom has been conjectured to explain the apparent metastability of $\pi^-$...Go to contribution page
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Mr ALI DASTGHEIBI FARD (CNRS/IN2P3/LSM (FR))Experiments: 2d) Dark Matter DetectorsPoster
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Proportional Counter, SPC) is a novel type of particle detector, with a
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Smita Darmora (University of Texas at Arlington (US))Sensors: 1a) CalorimetryPosterThe ATLAS hadronic calorimeter, the Tile Calorimeter (TileCal), is a non-compensating sampling calorimeter comprised of steel and scintillating plastic tiles which are read-out by photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). The TileCal is regularly monitored and calibrated by several different calibration systems: a Cs radioactive source that illuminates the scintillating tiles directly, a laser light...Go to contribution page
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Dr Atsuhiko Ochi (Kobe University (JP))Experiments: 2a) Experiments & UpgradesPosterCarbon sputtering is a promising technology for making resistive electrodes for MPGDs. The research on this technology started in the context of the development of MicroMEGAS detectors for the ATLAS muon system upgrade. By sputtering carbon layers of varying thickness (a few hundred to a few thousand angstrom) the surface resistivity can be controlled between $400$ kΩ/sq. and $2$ GΩ/sq....Go to contribution page
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Matthew Wetstein (University of Chicago)Sensors: 1d) Photon DetectorsPosterThe Large Area Picosecond Photodetector Collaboration (LAPPD) is developing economical techniques for fabricating large area, glass-body microchannel-plate photomultiplier tubes (MCP-PMTs), scalable for use in a variety of High Energy Physics applications. An important capability of these photosensors is in precision measurements of arrival times and positions of single photons. Prototype...Go to contribution page
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Dariusch Deermann (Forschungszentrum Jülich)Sensors: 1b) Semiconductor DetectorsPosterThe $\overline{\text{P}}\text{ANDA}$-experiment will be one of the main experiments inside the upcoming Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) at the GSI in Darmstadt. The fixed target experiment will explore $\overline{\text{p}}$p annihilation in the charm mass region with intense, phase space cooled beams with momenta between 1.5 and 15 GeV/c. The innermost subdetector of...Go to contribution page
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Mr Lin Qi (Delft University of Technology)Sensors: 1d) Photon DetectorsPosterWith PureB technology, Si photodiode detectors have been fabricated and commercialized with outstanding optical and electrical performance for low penetration-depth beams such as vacuum-/extreme-ultraviolet (VUV/EUV) light and low-energy electrons of which the minimum penetration depth in Si is only ~5 nm. The PureB layer is formed by a pure-boron chemical- vapor deposition (CVD) in a manner...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Yasar Onel (University of Iowa)Sensors: 1a) CalorimetryPosterThe Hadron Forward Calorimeter of CMS is going through a complete Phase I upgrade. The current photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) are being replaced with thinner window, higher quantum efficiency, four-anode photomultiplier tubes. The new PMTs will provide better light detection performance, a significantly reduced background and unique handles to recover the signal in the presence of background....Go to contribution page
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Federico Sforza (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (D)Sensors: 1c) Gaseous DetectorsPosterFor the upgrade of the ATLAS muon spectrometer in March 2014 new muon tracking chambers (sMDT) with drift-tubes of 15 mm diameter, half of the value of the standard ATLAS Monitored Drift-Tubes (MDT) chambers, and 10 $\mu m$ positioning accuracy of the sense wires have been constructed. The new chambers are designed to be fully compatible with the present ATLAS services but, with respect to...Go to contribution page
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Dr Dmitry Nagornyy (Institute of Applied Physics, NAS of Ukraine)Sensors: 1b) Semiconductor DetectorsPosterThe term "Coordinate-sensitive microelectronic detector" means a device for one dimentional simultaneous detection of separated in the space electron flow, falling on the working surface of the detector. Laser mass spectrometry is one of the most beneficial applications of this detector, but these detectors can be successfully used in other areas where one-dimensional spatial detection of...Go to contribution page
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Dr Bill Lee (Fermilab)Experiments: 2a) Experiments & UpgradesPosterLocated 350 feet beneath the surface the MINOS Underground Areas, at Fermilab provide a useful shallow testing site for Dark Matter Detector R&D. It is accessible 24hrs/day, 365 days/year, under normal circumstances, with minimal training. The area is fully supported by Fermilab staff and resources, including network capabilities and other utilities. It has been used by the DAMIC and COUPP...Go to contribution page
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Karina Martin (BINP)Data-processing: 3c) Embedded softwarePosterStudies being performed nowadays in the field of plasma physics and controlled nuclear fusion, are continuously becoming more complex. They advance new challenges on the diagnostic equipment. Several of the basic requirements for a modern diagnostic technique are an easy scaling on multi-channel measurement systems, simultaneity of recording channels and the possibility of adapting the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Massimo Della Pietra (Engineering Dept, University of Naples “Parthenope” and INFN)Emerging technologies: 4e) Precision engineeringPosterThe frontier evolution of a gaseous tracking particle detector technology has been moved in developing Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors that can achieve unprecedented spatial resolution, high rate capability and large sensitive area. However, also the geometry of such kind of tracking detector, in spite of the particular technology used, has to be known with a precision of the order of few tens of...Go to contribution page
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Dr Abdullrahman H. Maghrabi (NCMP-KACST-Saudi Arabia), Abdulrahman Alghamdi (KACST), Mr Mohammad S. alanazi (NCMP-KACST- Saudi Arabia)Technology transfer: 5b) Health and healthcarePosterThe Gas Electron Multiplier detectors technology is well known for its high counting rate, charge and position resolution capabilities. Under the umbrella of the KACST Detector Laboratory (KDL) project we have succeeded in designing, constructing and, operating a single channel small (10x10 cm2 ) GEM detector for radiation detection applications. The performances of the detector was tested...Go to contribution page
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Mircea Bogdan (The University of Chicago)Data-processing: 3a) Front-end ElectronicsPosterWe present a design for increasing the buffer length from 25.6ns to 3.3us in a 2-channel prototype of PSEC5, a custom integrated circuit designed for analog-to-digital conversion of fast analog signals at a sampling rate between 5 and 15 Gigasamples/second. The prototype is being designed in the same 0.13um IBM-8RF CMOS process as the PSEC4 ASIC [1]. The major improvements are the increase of...Go to contribution page
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Stella Orfanelli (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR))Experiments: 2a) Experiments & UpgradesPosterA fast and directional monitoring system for the CMS experiment is designed to provide an online, bunch-by-bunch measurement of beam background induced by beam halo interactions, separately for each beam. The background detection is based on Cherenkov radiation produced in synthetic fused silica read out by a fast, UV sensitive photomultiplier tube. Twenty detector units per end will be...Go to contribution page
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Dr Abdullrahman H. Maghrabi (NCMP - KACST - Saudi Arabia), Dr Abdulrahman S. Alghamdi (National Center for Mathematics and Physics, KACST)Technology transfer: 5b) Health and healthcarePosterThe main objective of this project is to develop a medical imaging system to be used in the two dimensions Proton dosimetry applications using the gas electron multiplier technology. These include designing and construction of the detector, readout board, and related electronics. The first step toward attaining the goal of this project is to build a prototype of triple-GEM detector (10cm...Go to contribution page
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clarence chang (Argonne National Lab)Experiments: 2b) Astrophysics and Space InstrumentationPosterSPT-3G is an ambitious focal plane upgrade for the South Pole Telescope (SPT) platform. The SPT is one of the world's premier mm-wave observatories and has been optimized for precision measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background. In this talk, I will discuss ongoing research and development of multi-chroic Transition Edge Sensor (TES) bolometer arrays which will be the detector...Go to contribution page
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Robert Jan Ekelhof (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))Sensors: 1e) Novel technologiesPosterThe Scintillating Fibre (SciFi) Tracker for the LHCb Upgrade (CERN/LHCC 2014-001; LHCb TDR 15) is based on 2.5 m long multi-layered ribbons from 10,000 km of scintillating fibre over 12 planes covering 350 m$^{2}$. The planes are separated into modular detectors, each with cooled silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) arrays for photo-readout. In this talk, we will present the construction and...Go to contribution page
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Hiroyuki Sako (Japan Atomic Research Agency)Sensors: 1c) Gaseous DetectorsPosterWe have been developing a TPC using GEMs and a gating grid to search for the H-dibaryon at J-PARC with high rate hadron beams up to 10^6 count per second (cps) /cm^2. The TPC consists of an octagonal-shape drift cage of 50 cm diameter and 55 cm height, filled with Ar-CH_4 (90:10) gas, and the end cap chamber consisting of a gating grid plane, 3-layer GEMs, and a pad plane. The TPC is operated...Go to contribution page
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Dr Anatoly Ronzhin (Fermilab)Sensors: 1a) CalorimetryPosterOne possibility to make a fast and radiation resistant shower maximum (SM) detector is to use a secondary emitter as an active element. We present below test beam results, obtained with different types of the photo detectors based on micro channel plates (MCP) as the secondary emitter. The SM time resolution - we obtained for this new type of detector is at the level of 20-30 ps. We estimate...Go to contribution page
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Dr Erik Ramberg (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)Sensors: 1e) Novel technologiesPosterFuture calorimeters and shower maximum detectors at high luminosity accelerators need to be very radiation resistant and very fast. In this report we outline the study of the development of such detectors using microchannel plate (MCP) secondary emitters. The first proposal to use secondary emitters in such a detector can be found in Ref. [1]. Our research is based on the use of MCP secondary...Go to contribution page
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Fabrizio Petrucci (Roma Tre Universita Degli Studi (IT)), Dr Michela Biglietti (INFN Roma Tre), Paolo Iengo (INFN Napoli (IT)), Stefano Mastroianni (INFN)Sensors: 1c) Gaseous DetectorsPosterCosmic ray tomography is a technique under development since years. It consists in using particle detectors to reconstruct the scattering angle of cosmic rays traversing the volume under inspection, thus revealing the presence of materials with high atomic number, as radioactive elements or heavy metals. Although the validity of the muon tomography has already been demonstrated, its use on a...Go to contribution page
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Joshua Abramovitch (Southern Methodist University)Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition SystemsPosterX-ray detectors currently on the market are expensive, costing thousands of dollars each and still limited in data acquisition options. The goal of this project is to create a device that can be used to accurately measure gamma and x-ray flux, calculate radiation dose rates, and be simple and inexpensive to produce. Developing an accurate and reliable system of measuring gamma and x-ray flux...Go to contribution page
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Lei Xia (Argonne National Laboratory)Sensors: 1c) Gaseous DetectorsPosterTraditionally RPCs use either Bakelite or glass as resistive plates. Compared with other Micro-pattern gas detectors, RPCs are known to suffer from rate limitations. The rate capability of the devices is defined by the signal size, bulk resistivity of the resistive electrode and the thickness of the electrode. We report on efforts to develop low-resistivity Bakelite and glass, as well...Go to contribution page
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Kate Doonan (University of Glasgow (GB))Experiments: 2a) Experiments & UpgradesPosterATLAS is proposing to replace the entire tracking system for operation at the HL-LHC. This will include a significantly larger pixel detector. This paper reports on the development of large area planar detectors for the outer pixel layers and the pixel endcaps. Large area sensors have been fabricated and mounted onto 4 FE-I4 readout ASICs, so called quad-modules, and their performance...Go to contribution page
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Damien Neyret (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))Sensors: 1c) Gaseous DetectorsPosterFuture physics programs using high intensity muon and hadron beams of a few hundred GeV on fixed targets are being prepared by the COMPASS experiment at CERN for the years 2015 and beyond. Large size Micromegas gaseous detectors (40x40cm² active area) which are used in COMPASS tracking since 2001 need to be upgraded in order to cope with the foreseen higher beam intensities (up to a few...Go to contribution page
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Zelimir Djurcic (A)Data-processing: 3a) Front-end ElectronicsPosterThe LBNE (Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment) is the next generation accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiment planned in US. The experiment will use a new muon-neutrino beam sent from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and will detect electron-neutrino appearance and muon-neutrino disappearance using a Liquid Argon TPC located at a distance of 1300 km at Sanford Underground Research...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Yoshiyuki Fukuda (Depertment of Physics, Miyagi University of Education)Experiments: 2c) Detectors for neutrino physicsPosterAn organic liquid scintillator containing zirconium complex was studied for neutrinosless double beta decay experiment. A $^{96}$Zr nuclei has a large Q-value (3.35MeV), and no experiment is planned to use as a target. In order to realize ton scale target isotope with good energy resolution (4\%@2.5MeV), we have used zirconium beta-diketon complex which has huge solubility (over 10w.t.\%)...Go to contribution page
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Mr hiroshi ITO (Chiba University)Sensors: 1e) Novel technologiesPosterWe have developed a multipurpose aerogel Cherenkov counter (M-ACC) which works particle identification in a narrow space and can cover large area with arbitrary shapes. Generally, a size of photodetector which is required for aerogel Cherenkov detector tends to become bigger in proportion to an effective area. Therefore, it is difficult to make detector which has large area and thin width. We...Go to contribution page
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Ranjeet Dalal (University of Delhi)Sensors: 1b) Semiconductor DetectorsPosterDuring the high luminosity upgrade of LHC the CMS tracking system consisting of silicon pixel and strip sensors will face intense radiation environment than the present system was designed for. It is important to complement the measurements of the irradiated Si strip sensors with device simulation, which helps in both the understanding of the device behavior and optimizing the design...Go to contribution page
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Diego Real (IFIC)Experiments: 2c) Detectors for neutrino physicsPosterThe KM3NeT collaboration aims at the construction of a neutrino telescope with a volume of several cubic kilometres at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. The telescope will consist in an array of Digital Optical Modules (DOMs) that will detect the Cherenkov light originated by the interaction of the neutrinos with the matter in the proximity of the detector. In the present...Go to contribution page
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Dr Aldo Ianni (INFN LNGS)Experiments: 2d) Dark Matter DetectorsPosterDarkSide-50 (DS-50) at Gran Sasso underground laboratory, Italy, is a direct dark matter search experiment based on a TPC with liquid argon from underground sources. The DS-50 TPC, with 50 kg of active argon and a projected fiducial mass of >33 kg, is installed inside an active neutron veto based on a boron-loaded organic scintillator. The neutron veto is built inside a water cherenkov...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ashok Kumar (University of Delhi (IN))Sensors: 1c) Gaseous DetectorsOralThe gaseous detectors can be used in variety of applications including particle detection, medical imaging and radiological applications. We will present an extensive study of optical, structural and electrical properties performed for different electrode materials for gaseous detectors such as Resistive Plate Chambers. We also present the gas mixture composition studies with different gases...Go to contribution page
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Nicolo Tosi (Universita e INFN Bologna (IT))Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition SystemsPosterIn the context of increasing luminosity of LHC, it will be important to accurately measure the Machine Induced Background. A new monitoring system will be installed in the CMS cavern for measuring the beam background at high radius. This detector is composed of synthetic quartz Cherenkov radiators, coupled to fast photomultiplier tubes (PMT). The readout chain of this detector will make use of...Go to contribution page
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Coralie Neubuser (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))Sensors: 1a) CalorimetryPosterWithin the CALICE collaboration different Calorimeter technologies are studied for a future linear collider. These technologies differ in active material, granularity and readout systems. The Analog Hadronic Calorimeter (AHCal) reads out the signal height of the energy deposition in each calorimeter cell, while the digital HCal detects hits by firing RPC pad sensors above a certain threshold....Go to contribution page
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Hanno Perrey (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))Experiments: 2a) Experiments & UpgradesPosterA high resolution ($\sigma \sim 2\mu m$) beam telescope based on monolithic active pixel sensors was developed within the EUDET collaboration. It has become the primary beam tool for many groups including several CERN based experiments, largely due to its precise resolution, reliable operation and DAQ integration capabilities. For the telescope to deliver this excellent performance, two...Go to contribution page
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Alexey Finkel (University of Minnesota (US))Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition SystemsPosterThe CMS Hadron Calorimeter is undertaking a upgrade of front-end electronics which increases the channel count by a factor of three and adds additional TDC data. To transfer the larger data volume off-detector, CMS is evaluating a commercial FPGA with integrated high-speed serial link for use in the radiation environment. This talk will report on the studies of the candidate device under...Go to contribution page
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Michael Planer (University of Notre Dame (US))Sensors: 1a) CalorimetryPosterCalorimetry for the CMS detector is currently performed at the LHC with a lead tungstate crystal electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) and a brass/scintillator hadronic calorimeter (HCAL), both divided into barrel and endcap regions. High-Luminosity running at the LHC, which is planned for 2022 and beyond, will imply an order of magnitude increase in radiation levels and particle fluences with...Go to contribution page
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Christopher Betancourt (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (DE))Sensors: 1b) Semiconductor DetectorsPosterA number of measurements have recently reported a type of gain effect in silicon detectors for particle physics. This effect manifests itself in signal levels that significantly exceed expectations and in some cases even the signal charge generated by a passing MIP. The excess charge is seen in particular for heavily irradiated sensors operated at very high bias voltages. It is believed that...Go to contribution page
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Carlos Maximiliano Mollo (INFN)Sensors: 1d) Photon DetectorsPosterThe Vacuum Silicon PhotoMultiplier Tube (VSiPMT) is an innovative design that we proposed for the first time at the 11th Topical Seminar on Innovative Particle and Radiation Detectors (IPRD08) in Siena, triggering deep discussions on the feasibility of the device itself and on the convenience of such an idea. The basic idea is to replace the classical dynode chain of a PMT with a SiPM, which...Go to contribution page
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Carlos Oliveira (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)Sensors: 1c) Gaseous DetectorsPosterHigh Pressure Gaseous Xenon shows outstanding intrinsic energy resolutions when compared with the liquid phase due to the smaller (~20x) Fano factor. The gaseous phase should also show better electron to nuclear recoil discrimination based on the ratio of ionization to scintillation signals (S2/S1). The addition of trimethylamine (TMA) may further improve the energy resolution due to the...Go to contribution page
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Herve Chanal (Univ. Blaise Pascal Clermont-Fe. II (FR))Data-processing: 3a) Front-end ElectronicsPosterThe LHCb detector will be upgraded during the next LHC shutdown in 2018/19. The tracker system will have a major overhaul. Its components will be replaced with new technologies in order to cope with the increased hit occupancy and radiation environment. A detector made of scintillating fibres read out by silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) is studied for this upgrade. Even if this technology...Go to contribution page
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Ivo Polak (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))Sensors: 1d) Photon DetectorsPosterThe gain of SiPMs depends both on bias voltage and on temperature. For stable operations, both need to be kept constant. In an ILC calorimeter with millions of channels this is a challenging task. It is, therefore, desirable to compensate automatically for temperature variations by readjusting the bias voltage. We have designed an adaptive power supply to achieve this task. We anticipate...Go to contribution page
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Alexey Badalov (University of Barcelona (ES))Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition SystemsPosterDuring the second long shutdown in 2017, the beam will undergo an intensity increase. This will place an increased load on the hardware, necessitating an upgrade. One potentially very cost-effective way to add computational power would be to replace some of the CPU cores with graphics processing units or other modern many-core hardware. A number of people is currently working on GPU versions...Go to contribution page
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Stefano Riboldi (Universita' degli Studi di Milano)Experiments: 2a) Experiments & UpgradesPosterThe Germanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment, investigating neutrino-less double beta decay of 76Ge at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory of INFN - Italy is currently upgrading to phase II, in order to improve both its sensitivity and background rejection capabilities. Many technological improvements are foreseen during the planned upgrade; among what most concerns the core of the GERDA...Go to contribution page
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Antonio Sidoti (Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition SystemsPosterGeneral Purpose Graphical Processing Units (GPGPU) provide exceptional massive parallel computing power with small power consumption. GPGPU bring high performance computing with off-the-shelf products. However the full exploitation of this new computing paradigm will not be possible if software applications only partially employs massive parallelism. High Energy Physics experiments have...Go to contribution page
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Naomi van der Kolk (LAL/LLR/CNRS/P2IO)Sensors: 1a) CalorimetryPosterThe physics goals of future lepton colliders ask for a very precise measurement of the jet energy. Highly granular calorimeters will play an important part in achieving this high precision as they allow the application of Particle Flow Algorithms. These calorimeters are being developed by the CALICE collaboration and several prototypes have already been build and tested. The optimization...Go to contribution page
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Dr Rok Pestotnik (Jozef Stefan Institute)Sensors: 1d) Photon DetectorsPosterSilicon photo multipliers are promising candidates to replace the photomultiplier tubes in Ring Imaging Cherenkov counters. Their main advantages are high gain, low operational voltage, insensitivity to magnetic fields, robust and compact design. Their big disadvantage for single photon detection is their high dark count rate, which is of the order of 0.1-1 MHz/mm$^2$. We have however...Go to contribution page
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Philipp Schwegler (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (D)Sensors: 1c) Gaseous DetectorsPosterThe Monitored Drift Tube (MDT) chambers of the ATLAS experiment provide muon track reconstruction with a spatial resolution of about 35 µm and efficiency of almost 100% up to the maximum expected background rates at nominal LHC luminosity. For much higher background rates, as they are anticipated for LHC luminosity upgrades (HL-LHC), sMDT chambers with 15 mm tube diameter, which is half the...Go to contribution page
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Mr David Calvo (IFIC)Experiments: 2c) Detectors for neutrino physicsPosterPrecise measurements on time intervals (TIs) are frequently needed in many physics applications such as particle detection. Time to Digital Converters (TDCs) perform conversion of TIs into a digital word. In the case of KM3NeT, thirty-one TDCs are used to discretize the photomultiplier output. Both the event width and the instant when it happens, require an accuracy of 1 ns. An oversampling...Go to contribution page
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DONG-UK KANG (KAIST)Data-processing: 3a) Front-end ElectronicsPosterThis study is concerned with the simulation and design of a high-speed photon counting readout circuit for spectral computed tomography detectors. We propose a novel front-end architecture aimed at reducing dead time by introducing multi signal paths in each pixel. A prototype chip using 0.18um six-metal standard CMOS process is consisting of 16 x 16 pixels and periphery circuits. Each pixel...Go to contribution page
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Dr Duc Bao Ta (Michigan State University (US))Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition SystemsPosterThe Level-‐1 calorimeter trigger (L1Calo) of the ATLAS experiment has been operating well since the start of LHC data taking, and played a major role in the Higgs boson discovery. To face the new challenges posed by the upcoming increases of the LHC proton beam energy and luminosity, a series of upgrades is planned for L1Calo. This paper presents the L1Calo upgrade program for the initial...Go to contribution page
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Alexander Cheplakov (Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (RU))Experiments: 2a) Experiments & UpgradesPosterAt the proposed high-luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) the readout electronics of the ATLAS Hadronic Endcap Calorimeter (HEC) will have to withstand a much harsher radiation environment than is present at the LHC design luminosity. The heart of HEC read-out electronics is the pre-amplifier and summing (PAS) system, which is realized in GaAs ASIC technology. These PAS devices are installed inside the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Angelo Cruciani (University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy)Experiments: 2c) Detectors for neutrino physicsPosterLarge-mass arrays of bolometers proved to be good detectors for Neutrinoless Beta Decay (0vDBD) and Dark Matter (DM) searches. The CUORE and LUCIFER 0vDBD experiments at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso will start to take data in 2015. The potential of CUORE could be increased by removing the background due to alpha particles, by detecting the small amount of Cherenkov light (100 eV)...Go to contribution page
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Mr Miguel Mendez (Seven Solutions)Experiments: 2c) Detectors for neutrino physicsPosterKM3NeT collaboration aims to build a cubic-kilometre scale neutrino telescope at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. KM3NeT is composed of an On-Shore Station which connects via an optical network to a matrix of underwater sensors, called Digital Optical Modules (DOMs). Bulk data will continuously flow from the sensors to the On-Shore Station and only a limited amount of bandwidth will be...Go to contribution page
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Mr Benjamin Crider (University of Kentucky), Prof. Rodney Piercey (Eastern Kentucky University)Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition SystemsPosterThe University of Kentucky Acceleratory Laboratory (UKAL), a facility that possesses unique experimental capabilities for the scattering and detection of monoenergetic fast neutrons, has recently invested in updating its data acquisition capabilities. Starting with a new system for high-precision singles measurements, where subsequent analysis leads to the extraction of lifetimes in the...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Panagiotis Liaparinos (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, 12210 Athens, Greece)Sensors: 1d) Photon DetectorsPosterAbstract: Inorganic scintillating crystals are employed as radiation to light converters in most medical imaging modalities. This study presents a comparative investigation of the luminescence emission properties of LFS-3 (Zecotek Photonics Inc) and GAGG:Ce (Furukawa Co Ltd) single crystal scintillators under medical X-ray excitation. Both scintillating materials have dimensions of 10x10x10mm3...Go to contribution page
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Ettore Segreto (INFN)Sensors: 1d) Photon DetectorsOralWe present the results obtained with a liquid argon scintillation detector with light read-out completely based on SiPM. We used a 1 liter PTFE chamber observed by an array of 7 large area SiPMs (Hamamatsu S11828-3344M) covering about the 4% of the internal surface. The chamber is lined with a reflective foil (3M VIKUITI) evaporated with a wavelength shifter (TetraPhenyl Butadiene). This...Go to contribution page
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Francisco Jose Iguaz Gutierrez (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))Sensors: 1c) Gaseous DetectorsPosterAxion helioscopes search for solar axions by their conversion in x-rays in the presence of high magnetic fields. The use of low background x-ray detectors is an essential component contributing to the sensitivity of these searches. In this work, we review the recent advances on Micromegas detectors used in the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) and proposed for the future International Axion...Go to contribution page
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Federico Lasagni Manghi (Universita e INFN (IT))Sensors: 1d) Photon DetectorsPosterThe ATLAS luminosity monitor, LUCID, has been completely redesigned. Both the detector and the associated read-out electronics have been improved in order to cope with the LHC luminosity increase foreseen for RUN 2 and RUN 3. The new operating conditions will require a careful tuning of the read-out electronics in order to optimize the signal-to-noise ratio. The new read-out electronics...Go to contribution page
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Dr Stratos David (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Athens)Sensors: 1d) Photon DetectorsPosterMany of the contemporary photonics technologies dealing with detection of radiation owe their existence to diverse scintillation materials. The scintillators play a decisive role in the registration of X-rays and γ-quanta necessary in many fields of application in industry, medicine, fundamental research, and security where they are used to convert high-energy photons into visible light....Go to contribution page
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Jessica Lynn Leonard (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))Experiments: 2a) Experiments & UpgradesPosterThe measurement of the luminosity delivered by the LHC is pivotal for several key physics analyses. During the first three years of running, tremendous steps forwards have been made in the comprehension of the subtleties related to luminosity monitoring and calibration, which led to an unprecedented accuracy at a hadron collider. The detectors and corresponding algorithms employed to estimate...Go to contribution page
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Dr Huirong Qi (Institute of High Energy Physics,CAS)Sensors: 1c) Gaseous DetectorsPosterWith the continuous development of the micro-structure of gaseous detectors in recent years, a lot of the new detection requirements have been proposed in synchrotron radiation facility. To get the stable working time, lower discharge rate with long working term and higher effective gain, the new structure detector has been designed. One structure was based the coated Ge resistive anode...Go to contribution page
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Norman Anthony Graf (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))Sensors: 1e) Novel technologiesPosterGeant4 is the de facto HEP standard for simulating the interaction of particles with materials and fields. The software toolkit provides a very rich library of basic geometrical shapes, often referred to as “primitives”, plus the ability to define compound geometries, making it capable of supporting extremely complex physical structures. Current versions of Geant4 fully and natively support an...Go to contribution page
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Dr Silvia Dalla Torre (INFN Trieste)Sensors: 1c) Gaseous DetectorsOralDriven by the availability of modern photolithographic techniques, the Micro Pattern Gas Detectors (MPGD) have been introduced in the last years of the 20th century by pioneer activities: Gas Electron Multipliers (GEM) and Micromegas, later followed by thick-GEM, resistive GEM (RETGEM) and novel micro-pattern devices. Nowadays, a flourishing of R&D activities dedicated to MPGDs and of...Go to contribution page
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Vladimir Yurevich (Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (RU))Sensors: 1d) Photon DetectorsPosterNowadays the TOF measurement with picosecond time resolution is important feature in high-energy physics experiments and the detectors solving this task are important part of experimental setups. The initial point of our activity in this direction was a proposal of Fast Forward Detector (FFD) for MPD/NICA project [1]. The detector concept and results obtained with the first version of...Go to contribution page
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Dr Anna Mazzacane (Fermilab)Experiments: 2a) Experiments & UpgradesPosterA Multi-Tev Muon Collider is currently being studied by the Muon Accelerator Project (MAP). Experiments at the Muon Collider will need to cope with intense backgrounds from decays of muon beams. Physics and detector studies including full simulation of muon decay backgrounds are underway. We report on some of these studies utilizing the ILCroot detector simulation framework integrated...Go to contribution page
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Dr Jonathan Burns (AWE)Sensors: 1c) Gaseous DetectorsPosterMuon scattering tomography (MST) allows the identification of shielded high atomic number, or Z materials by measuring the scattering angle of atmospheric cosmic ray muons passing through an inspection region. Materials of different densities can be differentiated using this technique as muons interacting with high-Z materials are scattered to a greater degree by multiple Coulomb scattering...Go to contribution page
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Ewa Skup (Fermilab)Experiments: 2a) Experiments & UpgradesPosterThe Multiwire Proportional Chamber Tracking System at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility has been upgraded. Improvements include a renovation of the chambers themselves to vastly improve noise on the signals. An extensive study was done to find the most efficient gas for operation, and a completely new electronics read-out system has been created to improve reliability, and system...Go to contribution page
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David Calvo (IFIC)Experiments: 2c) Detectors for neutrino physicsPosterA very large volume neutrino telescope is being constructed in the Mediterranean Sea by the KM3NeT collaboration. Thousands of glass spheres holding a set of 31 small area photomultipliers will be deployed at high depth forming a tri-dimensional matrix. The glass spheres, called Digital Optical Modules (DOMs), will detect the Cerenkov light induced by neutrino interactions with the surrounding...Go to contribution page
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Mr Erik Etzelmüller (Justus-Liebig-Univeristät Gießen), Mr Julian Rieke (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)Experiments: 2a) Experiments & UpgradesPosterThe DIRC-principle (detection of internally reflected Cherenkov light) allows a very compact approach for particle identification detectors. The PANDA detector at the future FAIR facility at GSI will use a Barrel-DIRC for the central region and a Disc-DIRC for the forward angular region between 5 and 22 degrees. It will be the first time, that a Disc-DIRC is used in a high performance 4π...Go to contribution page
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Aria Soha (Fermilab)Experiments: 2a) Experiments & UpgradesPosterA new area for beam tests of high rate tracking devices is being commissioned at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility. The new area is in the MTest beam line upstream of the pinhole collimator in the MT3 Alcove. This area is suitable for tests of detectors with modest transverse dimensions. High rate tests will use 120 GeV protons. The maximum rate available is approximately 2.5 GHz/cm2(1E10...Go to contribution page
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Rinaldo Santonico (Universita e INFN Roma Tor Vergata (IT))Experiments: 2b) Astrophysics and Space InstrumentationPosterRPCs presently working in many accelerator and cosmic ray experiments are made up with resistive plates of phenolic laminate (improperly referred to as “bakelite”) or glass. They are operated with gas mixtures mostly constituted of C2H2F4, i-C4H10, and small amounts of SF6. In the next future however all these materials should be reconsidered for different reasons. Indeed for the resistive...Go to contribution page
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Dr Esther Ferrer Ribas (DAPNIA, Saclay)Sensors: 1c) Gaseous DetectorsPosterSmall gap micromegas detectors ($< 50\,\rm\mu$m) are expected to be optimal for high pressure applications. These detectors are particularly relevant for rare event searches like double beta decay or dark matter search. We will present recent results obtained with small gap microbulks (25 and 12.5\,$\rm\mu$m) that have been manufactured recently. Electric field simulations taking into account...Go to contribution page
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Deepak Gajanana (NIKHEF)Data-processing: 3a) Front-end ElectronicsPosterThe KM3NeT collaboration is building a large underwater neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea. The detector operates by detecting Cherenkov light produced by the charged products of neutrino interactions in seawater. The detection is done by digital optical modules (DOMs), which each house 31 3 inch photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). A custom, low power, PMT base was developed to provide the...Go to contribution page
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Martina Malberti (University of California Riverside (US))Experiments: 2a) Experiments & UpgradesPosterThe CMS silicon tracker is the largest silicon detector ever built. It consists of an inner pixel detector, with 66 million read-out channels, and an outer 200 m² silicon strip detector with 10 millions channels. The successful operation of this detector during the first three years of LHC running with proton-proton and heavy ion collisions will be discussed. Results will include operational...Go to contribution page
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Norman Anthony Graf (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))Experiments: 2a) Experiments & UpgradesPosterWe describe a software toolkit for full event simulation and reconstruction in silicon tracking detectors. It features modular packages providing sophisticated simulations of the response of silicon detectors to the passage of charged particles. Sensor classes allow very detailed descriptions of charge carrier movement in silicon detectors: one can list the collecting, absorbing and reflecting...Go to contribution page
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Dr Anna Mazzacane (Fermilab)Experiments: 2a) Experiments & UpgradesPosterThe $K^+\to\pi^+\nu \bar\nu~$ decay is highly suppressed in the Standard Model (SM), while its rate can be predicted with minimal theoretical uncertainty. Precision measurement of the the branching ratio (BR) for this decay would be thus one of the most incisive probes of quark flavor physics in the next years. The primary sensitivity goal of the ORKA experiment is 1000 events at the...Go to contribution page
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Moritz Guthoff (CERN)Sensors: 1b) Semiconductor DetectorsPosterAt CMS, a beam loss monitoring system is operated to protect the silicon detectors from high particle rates, arising from intense beam loss events. As detectors, poly-crystalline CVD diamond sensors are placed around the beam pipe at several locations inside CMS. In case of extremely high detector currents, the LHC beams are automatically extracted from the LHC rings. Diamond is the...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Kazu Carvalho Akiba (Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro (BR))Experiments: 2a) Experiments & UpgradesPosterLHCb is a dedicated experiment to study New Physics in the decays of heavy hadrons at the LHC. Heavy hadrons are identified through their flight distance in the Vertex Locator (VELO), hence the detector is critical for both the trigger and offline physics analyses. The VELO is the retractable silicon-strip detector surrounding the LHCb interaction point. It is located only 7 mm from the LHC...Go to contribution page
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Mr Ludovic Raux (OMEGA Ecole Polytechnique & CNRS/IN2P3)Sensors: 1a) CalorimetryPosterIn the framework of CALICE, EUDET and AIDA programs, technological prototypes for ILC calorimetry have been developped. They rely dout ASIC on highly integrated readout ASICs to perform signal readout, auto-trigger and energy measurement over several millions of channels. Ultra-low power is achieved thanks to power pulsing, which must maintain calorimetric performance. The chips developped...Go to contribution page
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Hiroko Miyamoto (LAL/Univ. Paris-SudXI/IN2P3/CNRS)Experiments: 2b) Astrophysics and Space InstrumentationPosterHere the performance of EUSO-BALLOON front-end electronics with dedicated detector elements will be reported. EUSO-BALLOON is a balloon-borne pathfinder of the space-borne fluorescence detector JEM-EUSO (Extreme Universe Space Observatory on board Japanese Experimental Module) on board the International Space Station. The goal of EUSO-BALOON is to perform as a technological demonstrator of...Go to contribution page
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Christian Jendrysik (Semiconductor Laboratory of the Max-Planck-Society)Sensors: 1d) Photon DetectorsPosterIn recent years Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) profited from ongoing developments and improvements in technology, leading to devices having the potential to replace conventional photomultiplier tubes. The Geiger-mode operation of a SiPM requires a high-ohmic quench resistor, which is usually realized in conventional devices by a structured polysilicon layer on the surface, leading to a...Go to contribution page
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78. Pre-research of Front-end readout electronics system for APD detectors for synchrotron radiationqiuju li (I)Data-processing: 3a) Front-end ElectronicsPosterSince many types of the silicon avalanche photodiode (Si-APD) detector have been developed for synchrotron X-ray experiments on nuclear resonant scattering, a readout electronics system scheme is introduced which includes front-end electronics for amplification, shaping circuit, analog to digital converter and data processing and so on. The designing of the pre-amplifier is described. The...Go to contribution page
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Dr Anna Mazzacane (Fermilab)Sensors: 1a) CalorimetryPosterThe physics program at future colliders demands an energy resolution of the calorimetric component of detectors at the limits of traditional techniques. The ADRIANO technology (*A Dual-readout Integrally Active Non-segmented Option*) is under development with an expected excellent performance. Results from detailed Montecarlo studies on the performance with respect to energy...Go to contribution page
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218. Preparing Electrons and Photons High Level Trigger Reconstruction in CMS for Run II data takingSimon Regnard (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition SystemsPosterThe CMS experiment has been designed with a 2-level trigger system. The first level is implemented on custom-designed electronics. The second level is the so-called High Level Trigger (HLT), a streamlined version of the CMS offline reconstruction software running on a computer farm. For Run II of the Large Hadron Collider, the increase in center-of-mass energy and luminosity will raise the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Makoto Tabata (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA))Sensors: 1e) Novel technologiesPosterThis paper presents recent progress in developing a spiral fiber tracker for use in the E36 experiment scheduled to be performed at J-PARC, Japan. This positive kaon decay experiment using the stopped kaon method will search for physics beyond the standard model of particle physics through precision measurements of lepton flavor universality, heavy sterile neutrino search, and dark photon...Go to contribution page
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Daniel Joseph Bullock (University of Texas at Arlington (US))Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition SystemsPosterPrometeo is the portable test-bench for the full certification of the front-end electronics of the ATLAS Tile calorimeter designed for the upgrade phase-II. It is a high throughput electronics system designed to simultaneously read-out all the samples from 12 channels at the LHC bunch crossing frequency and assess the quality of the data in real-time. The core of the system is a Xilinx Virtex...Go to contribution page
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Sebastian Laurien (University of Hamburg)Sensors: 1a) CalorimetryPosterWithin the CALICE collaboration, several concepts for the hadronic calorimeter of a future linear collider detector are studied. After having demonstrated the capabilities of the measurement methods in "physics prototypes", the focus now lies on improving their implementation in "engineering prototypes", that are scalable to the full linear collider detector. The Analog Hadron Calorimeter...Go to contribution page
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Alessia Cemmi (ENEA UTTMAT Casaccia (RM) and INFN Sezione di Roma (IT))Sensors: 1a) CalorimetryPosterOptical coupling materials are usually applied to ensure good optical matching in the APD-scintillating crystal detection system. High transparency at the scintillating emission wavelength and material stability under irradiation are recommended requirements. In this work, silicon optical grease (BC630) and two-component epoxy resins (Epo-tek 301-2FL and Epo-tek 305), to be employed in...Go to contribution page
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417. Radiation-hard Active Pixel Sensors for HL-LHC Detector Upgrades based on HV/HR-CMOS TechnologyIvan Peric (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))Sensors: 1b) Semiconductor DetectorsPosterWe explore the concept of using deep-submicron HV-CMOS and imaging processes to produce a drop-in replacement for traditional radiation-hard silicon sensors. Unlike fully integrated monolithic active pixel sensors (MAPS), such active sensors contain simple circuits, e.g. amplifiers and discriminators, but still require a readout chip - which can be a traditional strip or pixel readout chip or...Go to contribution page
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Alina Ivanova (I)Data-processing: 3c) Embedded softwarePosterThe International Thermonuclear Experiment Reactor (ITER) is a large-scale scientific experiment intended to prove the viability of fusion as an energy source, and to collect the data necessary for the design and subsequent operation of the first electricity-producing fusion power plant. ITER is an experimental nuclear reactor operating with a magnetic toroidal field of 5.3 T, plasma current of...Go to contribution page
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Silke Altenheiner (TU Dortmund)Sensors: 1b) Semiconductor DetectorsPosterIn the framework of the HL-LHC upgrade, the ATLAS experiment plans to introduce an all-silicon inner tracker with the HL-LHC upgrade to cope with the elevated occupancy. To investigate the suitability of pixel sensors using the proven planar technology for the upgraded tracker, the ATLAS Planar Pixel Sensor R&D Project was established comprising 19 institutes and more than 90 scientists....Go to contribution page
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Dr Makoto Tabata (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA))Sensors: 1e) Novel technologiesPosterThis paper presents recent progress in the development and mass production of large area hydrophobic silica aerogels for use as a radiator in the aerogel-based ring-imaging Cherenkov (A-RICH) counter that will be installed in the forward end cap of the Belle II detector under upgrade at KEK, Japan. The proximity-focusing A-RICH system is especially designed to identify charged pions and kaons...Go to contribution page
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Shoichiro Nishimura (The Univ. of Tokyo)Sensors: 1b) Semiconductor DetectorsPosterThe muon’s anomalous magnetic moment (g-2) was measured with 0.54ppm accuracy. There is 3.3 sigma discrepancy between the SM prediction and measured value. Muon’s electric dipole moment (EDM) limit is 10^-19 e・cm. The muon g-2/EDM at J-PARC (E34), aims to reach a sensitivity of 0.1 ppm, and try to measure EDM down to 10^-21 e・cm sensitivity. In this experiment, we accelerate muon to the 300...Go to contribution page
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Jose Manuel Cela Ruiz (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES)Data-processing: 3a) Front-end ElectronicsPosterThe first layer of the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) DT (Drift Tube) readout system is built around the ROBs (Read Out Boards), which are responsible for the time measurement of the chamber signals to allow reconstruction of charged particle tracks with a resolution of 250 μm per cell. ROB boards have shown an excellent performance during LHC operation and are expected to continue their...Go to contribution page
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Dr Kazuki Ueno (KEK)Data-processing: 3a) Front-end ElectronicsPosterThe COMET experiment at J-PARC aims to search for the charged lepton flavor violating process of neutrinoless $\mu$-e conversion with an improvement of a sensitivity by a factor of 10000 to the current limit. When the $\mu$-e conversion occurs, almost all the energy of the muon mass is carried out by the electron which is expected to have the monochromatic energy of about 105 MeV. In order to...Go to contribution page
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Richard French (University of Sheffield (GB))Emerging technologies: 4e) Precision engineeringPosterThe existing luminosity of the LHC will be increased in stages to a factor of 10 above its current level (HL-LHC) by 2022. This planned increase in luminosity results in significantly higher levels of radiation inside the planned ATLAS Upgrade detector. This means existing detector technologies together with new components and materials need to be re-examined to evaluate their performance and...Go to contribution page
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Anna Soter (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (DE))Sensors: 1b) Semiconductor DetectorsPosterThe Atomic Spectroscopy and Collisions Using Slow Antiprotons (ASACUSA) experiment at the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) facility of CERN [1,2] recently constructed segmented scintillators to detect and track charged pions emerging from antiproton annihilations [3]. The detectors were designed to accompany a future superconducting radiofrequency Paul trap for antiprotons, but some of the modules...Go to contribution page
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Thomas Conneely (University of Leicester)Sensors: 1d) Photon DetectorsPosterThe next generation Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detectors for particle ID applications, at CERN, PANDA, and others place stringent requirements on photon detectors, with potentially high magnetic fields unaligned with the detector’s optical axis, high event rates challenging detector lifetime, high density multi-anode readout and a high time resolution requirement typically less than 50 ps....Go to contribution page
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239. Simulations of Inter-Strip Capacitance and Resistance for the Design of the CMS Tracker UpgradeThomas Eichhorn (DESY)Sensors: 1b) Semiconductor DetectorsPosterAn upgrade of the LHC accelerator, the high luminosity phase of the LHC is foreseen for 2023. The tracking system of the CMS experiment at HL-LHC will face an intenser radiation environment than the present system was designed for. This requires an upgrade of the full tracker, which will be equipped with higher granularity as well as radiation harder sensors, which can withstand...Go to contribution page
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Dr Christopher Tunnell (Nikhef)Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition SystemsPosterThe XENON1T will soon be the world's largest and most-sensitive dark matter experiment. Dark-matter particles would be detected by their interaction with 2.2 tonnes of liquid xenon viewed by approximately 250 PMTs. In order to calibrate our detector, we must use radioactive sources that will result in roughly 300 MB/s of data coming from the flash ADC boards connected to our PMTs. An overview...Go to contribution page
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Vadim Babkin (Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (RU))Sensors: 1c) Gaseous DetectorsPosterMultigap resistive plate chambers have proven to be the best choice for time-of-flight systems of large experiments such as ALICE, STAR, PHENIX. In the MPD experiment aimed at the study of hot and dense baryonic matter it has been also decided to use MRPCs. To reduce the number of TOF system channels it is advisable to use readout from each end of a strip. Several different prototypes of...Go to contribution page
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Paolo De Remigis (INFN)Data-processing: 3a) Front-end ElectronicsPosterThe Micro Vertex Detector (MVD) is the innermost sensitive layer of the PANDA experiment at the new Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (Fair). The MVD will be composed of two kind of sensors: hybrid pixels and double sided strips. The front end electronics of the MVD will be placed at a few centimetres from the interaction point, where high radiation levels are expected. Therefore...Go to contribution page
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Eric Shearer Hazen (Boston University (US))Data-processing: 3a) Front-end ElectronicsPosterThe AMC13 provides clock, timing and DAQ service for many subdetectors in the CMS experiment at CERN, as well as the muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab. The module hardware was recently upgraded to support 10 gigabit optical fiber and backplane interfaces. New firmware is now under development to support arbitrarily large event fragments from 12 AMC cards with up to 3 simultaneous output...Go to contribution page
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David Zou (Boston University (US)), Eric Shearer Hazen (Boston University (US))Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition SystemsPosterThe AMC13 provides clock, timing and DAQ service for many subdetectors in the CMS experiment at CERN, as well as the muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab. The module hardware was recently upgraded to support 10 gigabit optical fiber and backplane interfaces. New firmware is now under development to support arbitrarily large event fragments from 12 AMC cards with up to 3 simultaneous output...Go to contribution page
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Konstantinos Ntekas (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR))Experiments: 2a) Experiments & UpgradesPosterThe luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN foresees a luminosity increase by a factor 5 compared to the LHC. To cope with the corresponding rate increase, the ATLAS detector needs to be upgraded. The upgrade will proceed in two steps: Phase I in the LHC shutdown 2018/19 and Phase II in 2023-25. The largest of the ATLAS Phase-1 upgrades concerns the replacement of the first...Go to contribution page
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Semi conductor tracker Atlas SCT collaboration (ATLAS)Experiments: 2a) Experiments & UpgradesPosterWe report on the operation and performance of the ATLAS Semi-Conductor Tracker (SCT), which has been functioning for 3 years at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The SCT is constructed of 4088 silicon detector modules. We find 99% of the 6.3 million strips are operational, the noise occupancy and hit efficiency exceed the design specifications; the alignment is very close to the ideal to...Go to contribution page
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Petar Kevin Rados (University of Melbourne (AU))Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition SystemsPosterIn the Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider, the strategies for triggering will become more important than ever for physics analyses. The ATLAS tau trigger system combines information from the tracking and calorimetry detectors to identify the signature of tau lepton hadronic decays. Under the demanding, high luminosity environment of Run 2 at the LHC experiment (with instantaneous luminosities...Go to contribution page
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Burak Bilki (University of Iowa (US))Sensors: 1a) CalorimetryPosterThe large CALICE Digital Hadron Calorimeter prototype (DHCAL) was built in 2009 - 2010 and was tested in the Fermilab and CERN test beams. The DHCAL uses Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) as active media and is read out with 1 x 1 cm2 pads and digital (or 1 - bit) resolution. With a world record of nearly 480k readout channels, the DHCAL offers the possibility to study hadronic interactions with...Go to contribution page
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Paolo Musico (Universita e INFN (IT))Experiments: 2c) Detectors for neutrino physicsPosterThe KM3NeT deep sea neutrino observatory will include a very large number of multi-Photomultiplier (PMT) optical modules (DOM) to detect the Cherenkov light generated by secondary particles produced in neutrino interactions. The Central Logic Board (CLB) has been developed to acquire timing and amplitude information from the PMT signals, implementing time-to-digital conversion...Go to contribution page
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Mr Alexandre Zabi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition SystemsPosterThe CMS experiment implements a sophisticated two-level online selection system that achieves a rejection factor of nearly 10e5. The first level (L1) is based on coarse information coming from the calorimeters and the muon detectors while the High-Level Trigger combines fine-grain information from all sub-detectors. During Run II, the LHC will increase its centre of mass energy up to 13 TeV...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Jeremy Mans (University of Minnesota (US))Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition SystemsPosterThe CMS central hadron calorimeters will undergo a complete replacement of their data acquisition system electronics. The replacement is phased, with portions of the replacement starting in 2014 and continuing through LHC Long Shutdown 2 in 2018. The existing VME electronics will be replaced with a µTCA based system. New on-detector QIE electronics cards will be transmit data at 4.8 GHz...Go to contribution page
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Jim Freeman (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))Sensors: 1a) CalorimetryPosterThe CMS central hadron calorimeters will undergo an extensive upgrade before LHC Run 3 which will occur in 2019. The upgrade is based on replacement of the current HPD with SIPMs read out into a new ADC, the QIE11. Longitudinal segmentation of the HCAL will be increased by about 3X depending on eta. The entire front and back end electronics will be replaced with a 3X higher bandwidth...Go to contribution page
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Michael Planer (University of Notre Dame (US))Sensors: 1a) CalorimetryPosterThe High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) will provide unprecedented instantaneous and integrated luminosity. The lead tungstate crystals forming the barrel part of the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter (ECAL) will still perform well, even after the expected 3000 fb-1 at the end of HL-LHC. The avalanche photodiodes (APDs) used to detect the scintillation light have recently been exposed to the levels of...Go to contribution page
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Michael Planer (University of Notre Dame (US))Sensors: 1a) CalorimetryPosterThe High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) will provide unprecedented instantaneous and integrated luminosity. The lead tungstate crystals forming the barrel part of the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter (ECAL) will still perform well, even after the expected 3000 fb-1 at the end of HL-LHC. The avalanche photodiodes (APDs) used to detect the scintillation light have recently been exposed to the levels of...Go to contribution page
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Miguel Angel Olivan (Universidad de Zaragoza)Experiments: 2d) Dark Matter DetectorsPosterANAIS (Annual modulation with NAI Scintillators) experiment will look for dark matter annual modulation with 250 Kg of ultrapure NaI scintillators at the Canfranc Underground Labroratory (LSC). The detector will consist of 20 close-packed single modules, each of them coupled to two photomultipliers (PMTs) working in coincidence. An electronic chain and data acquisition system (DAQ) have been...Go to contribution page
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Dr Lisa Kaufman (Indiana University)Experiments: 2c) Detectors for neutrino physicsPosterThe Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO) is an experimental program designed to search for the neutrinoless double beta decay of Xe-136. Observation of this decay would determine an absolute mass scale for neutrinos, prove that neutrinos are massive Majorana particles (i.e. they are their own anti-particles), and constitute physics beyond the Standard Model. The first phase experiment called...Go to contribution page
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Henry J. Frisch (Univ of Chicago)Sensors: 1d) Photon DetectorsPosterWe present the design for the `Frugal Tile', an all-glass MCP-PMT with an active area of 400 square centimeters. The LAPPD glass tile module was designed to be simple, with: a) a hermetic package made of top and bottom plates and a rectangular sidewall, each made of water-jet-cut plate glass; b) an internal stack consisting of 2 glass capillary plates functionalized with Atomic Layer...Go to contribution page
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Massimiliano Fiorini (Universita di Ferrara (IT))Technology transfer: 5b) Health and healthcarePosterThe aim of the GAP project is the deployment of Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) in real-time applications, ranging from online event selection (trigger) in high energy physics (HEP) experiments to medical imaging reconstruction. The final goal of the project is to demonstrate that GPUs have a positive impact in sectors different for rate, bandwidth, and computational intensity. The relevant...Go to contribution page
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Michelle Stancari (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)Experiments: 2c) Detectors for neutrino physicsPosterFermilab has an extensive program of research and development for liquid argon detectors encompassing purification and cryogenics, readout electronics, photon detection and high voltage. The current status and future plans of this program will be presented, with an emphasis on recent results from the Liquid Argon Purity Demonstrator (LAPD). Removing electronegative impurities from...Go to contribution page
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Dr Alain Delbart (CEA/Irfu, CE Saclay, 91191 Gif sur Yvette cedex, France)Sensors: 1c) Gaseous DetectorsPosterCEA-Irfu developed a new device, called MINOS (MagIc Numbers Off Stability), to improve both the luminosity and the sensitivity of proton-induced knockout reactions experiments performing in-beam spectroscopy of very exotic nuclei produced at fragmentation facilities (such as RIBF at RIKEN in Japan and FAIR in Germany). Its innovative approach is that it uses a compact annular 300 mm long Time...Go to contribution page
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Michael Gericke (University of Manitoba)Experiments: 2a) Experiments & UpgradesPosterThe MOLLER collaboration is currently preparing an experiment to measure the Weak charge of the electron to a fractional accuracy of 2.3% at very low momentum transfer, using parity violating electron scattering. At this precision, the experiment will be sensitive to the interference of the electromagnetic amplitude with new neutral current amplitudes as weak as $10^{-3}\cdot G_{F}$. The...Go to contribution page
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Dr Francesco Gonnella (LNF (IT))Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition SystemsPosterThe aim of the NA62 experiment is to measure the BR(K+ -> pi+ nu nu bar) to within about 10%. The large-angle photon vetoes (LAVs) must detect particles with better than 1 ns time resolution and 10% energy resolution over a very large energy range in order to reject the dominant background. A low threshold, large dynamic range, Time-over-threshold based solution has been developed for the...Go to contribution page
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Mr Wenhao You (University of Science and Technology of China), Mr Yi Zhou (University of Science&Technology of China), cheng liSensors: 1c) Gaseous DetectorsPosterNS2 technology is a newly developed self-stretch technology for the construction of the large area gas electron multiplier (GEM) detector. Using the NS2 technology, we have built a 30cm×30cm GEM detector. This R&D work includes the mechanical design for detector frames and test setup. The detector is assembled and tested in the state key laboratory of particle detection and electronics at...Go to contribution page
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Giuseppina Anzivino (University of Perugia and INFN (IT))Experiments: 2a) Experiments & UpgradesPosterNA62 is the last generation kaon experiment at CERN. Its main goal is to measure the branching ratio of the ultra-rare decay K+→π+ννbar with 10% accuracy and background contamination at the 10% level. Given the tiny branching ratio of this decay, O(10E-10), to fulfil such request the main background process K+→μ+ν (BR ~63%) must be suppressed by a rejection factor of 4x10E-13. This is...Go to contribution page
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Dr Bin Cheng (University of Science and Technology of China)Sensors: 1e) Novel technologiesPosterPositron lifetime - momentum correlation spectrometer (AMOC) is a important method to analysize material structures using positron annihilation technology. However a key problem of low count rates need to be tackled. A noval geometry and scintillator architectures with the AMOC spectrometer is designed to promote the spectrometer count rates. A well-shape BaF2 scintillator is employed to...Go to contribution page
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Marina Artuso (Syracuse University (US))Experiments: 2a) Experiments & UpgradesPosterThe LHCb upgrade requires replacing the silicon strip tracker between the vertex locator and the magnet. A new design has been developed and tested based on the "stave" concept planned for the ATLAS upgrade. We will describe the new detector being constructed and show its improved performance in charged particle tracking.Go to contribution page
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Prof. Xiaoshan JIANG (IHEP C.A.S.)Data-processing: 3a) Front-end ElectronicsPosterThis post is to introduce the study of the electroncs design for the upgrade of the Endcap TOF of BESIII. MRPC will be used as the main detector unit. Two methods were studied. The first one is to use NINO and HPTDC, which have already be used in ALICE. And the second one is to use a self-designed ASIC with TOT function and use sampling chip to get the waveful the to caculate the time and...Go to contribution page
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DONG-UK KANG (KAIST), Daehee Lee (KAIST), Mr Kim MyungSoo (KAIST)Sensors: 1b) Semiconductor DetectorsPosterTypical in-direct X-ray image sensor have used a upper scientillator, which is like CsI(Tl) or Gd2O2S. In soft X-ray imaging for mammography, most of X-ray Energy is absorbed a surface of scientillator. Thus, MTF and sensitivity of image sensor can be decreased. In our study, we adapted a upside-down structure, which has bottom sided scientillator of image sensor. In MCNP and LightTools...Go to contribution page
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Serge Duarte Pinto (Technische Universiteit Delft (NL))Sensors: 1e) Novel technologiesPosterWe present the Delft initiatives in thermal neutron detection, a field that has been dominated by 3-He gaseous detectors. Our developments will be tested at the research reactor of the TU Delft, but the group also designs and builds instruments for partner institutes like ISIS, UK and the future European Spallation Source in Sweden. In this framework we present our collaborations on...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Horst Fischer (ALU-Freiburg)Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition SystemsPosterFor the upcoming measurements of deeply virtual Compton scattering at the COMPASS-II experiment at CERN/SPS we have developed a modular high speed (1GS/s) and high resolution (>10.5 effective bits) sampling ADC module, which allows for trigger decisions based on digital comparisons of signal amplitudes, coincidence times and geometric conditions. Featuring digital pulse processing in real-time...Go to contribution page
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Christian Kahra (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz (DE))Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition SystemsPosterATLAS is an experiment on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland. By 2015 the LHC instantaneous luminosity will be increased from $10^{34}$ up to $3\cdot10^{34}$ cm$^{-2}$ s${-1}$. This places stringent operational and physical requirements on the ATLAS Trigger in order to reduce the 40MHz collision rate to a manageable...Go to contribution page
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Christophe Goetzmann (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (FR))Experiments: 2a) Experiments & UpgradesPosterThe tracker of CMS experiment is composed at one hundred percent of silicon detectors. They are arranged in successive layers of concentric cylinders around the beam axis, in the central part of CMS detector, and in disks perpendicular to the beam axis, in the forward and backward part of the detector. The whole has the shape of a cylinder of 110 cm radius and 540 cm length. The silicon...Go to contribution page
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Joschka Lingemann (Rheinisch-Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition SystemsPosterThe increase in center-of-mass energy and luminosity for Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider pose new challenges for the trigger systems of the experiments. To keep triggering with a similar performance as in Run 1, the CMS muon trigger is currently being upgraded. The new algorithms will provide higher resolution, especially for the muon transverse momentum and will make use of isolation...Go to contribution page
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Frederic Machefert (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))Sensors: 1a) CalorimetryPosterThe LHCb collaboration foresees a major upgrade of the detector for the high luminosity run that will take place after the LS2 shut-down. Apart from the increase of the instantaneous luminosity at the interaction point of the experiment, one of the major ingredients of this upgrade is a full readout at 40MHz of the sub-detectors and the acquisition of the data by a large farm of PC. The...Go to contribution page
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Jessica Lynn Leonard (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))Experiments: 2a) Experiments & UpgradesPosterThe CMS beam and radiation monitoring subsystem BCM1F during LHC Run I consisted of 8 individual diamond sensors situated around the beam pipe within the tracker detector volume, for the purpose of fast monitoring of beam background and collision products. Effort is ongoing to develop the use of BCM1F as an online bunch-by-bunch luminosity monitor. BCM1F will be running whenever there is beam...Go to contribution page
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Takashi Yamanaka (University of Tokyo (JP))Sensors: 1a) CalorimetryPosterThe ATLAS Liquid Argon (LAr) calorimeters produce almost 200K signals that must be digitized and processed by the front-end and back-end electronics at every triggered event. Additionally, the front-end electronics sums analog signals to provide coarse-grained energy sums to the first-level (L1) trigger system. The current design was optimized for the nominal LHC luminosity of...Go to contribution page
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Dr Yuguang Xie (IHEP, Beijing, China)Sensors: 1c) Gaseous DetectorsPosterA new type of THGEM was developed for applications requiring relative high spacial resolution <200 um, which can be achieved by THGEM with 150um hole diameter, 400um pitch, and 150um thickness, and even smaller hole array structure. A THGEM-TPC is designed to monitor 3 - 50 MeV pulsed electron beam online. And a THGEM-based 2D detector is designed to measure the incident positions of 0.1 – 3...Go to contribution page
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Simone Coelli (I.N.F.N. Milano)Emerging technologies: 4a) Cooling and cryogenicsPosterDesign, prototype production and thermal test of a new cooling system for the the Upgrade of the UT Tracker for LHCb, based on vertical not straight CO2 boiling channels at about -30 °C.Go to contribution page
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