Helmuth Spieler
(LBNL)
23/02/2007, 14:00
Invited Talk
The past two decades have provided a wealth of experience in highly integrated
front-end electronics for high energy physics. The SLHC and ILC, however,
pose formidable challenges, not so much to technology, but to optimum utiliza-
tion of existing technology. The increased radiation load at the SLHC drives
detectors to higher segmentation, which exacerbates the problems of reducing...
Ichiro Adachi
(KEK)
23/02/2007, 14:55
Contributed Talk
Proximity focusing RICH based on silica aerogel Cherenkov radiator has been
developed for new particle identification device in the Belle detector upgrade.
To further improve detector performance, new concept for Cherenkov ring
imaging has been introduced, where multiple aerogel layers with different
indices are accumulated to increase detected photoelectrons without making
a signle...
Jerry Va'vra
(SLAC)
23/02/2007, 15:55
Contributed Talk
Benefiting form from the recent introduction of new fast vacuum-based pho-
ton detectors with a transit time distribution of σ_TTS ∼ 30-150ps, we are
developing novel RICH detector capable of correcting the chromatic error by
timing, attempted the first time ever on such a scale; we are also developing
a novel TOF detector concept. We have built and successfully tested a novel...
Sergey A. Kononov
(Budker Inst. Novosibirsk)
23/02/2007, 16:20
Contributed Talk
The work on aerogel Cherenkov counters was started in Novosibirsk in 1986.
Our group produces silica aerogels with refractive indices of 1.006–1.13.
Largest block dimensions achieved for n=1.03 are 200 × 200 × 50 mm^3.
Optical transparency of Novosibirsk aerogel is one of the best in the world. The
particle identification system for the KEDR detector based on the ASHIPH coun-
ters...
Ryu Sawada
(Uni Tokyo)
23/02/2007, 16:45
Contributed Talk
MEG experiment is a rare muon decay search experiment. A muon rare
decay μ + → e + γ violates lepton flavor conservation. The standard model
predicts too small branching ratio to observe, however many new theories
predict observable branching ratio. MEG experiment has sensitivity to the
background ratio better than 10 −13 which is two orders of magnitude
better than current...
