11th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation - VCI 2007

Session

Session 1

s1

19 Feb 2007, 10:40

HS1 (Univ. of Technology)

40. Spin-off from particle detectors in the field of medicine and biology

Paul Lecoq (CERN)

19/02/2007, 10:40

Invited Talk

Since the discovery of X-Rays by Roentgen in 1895 physicists have played a major role in the development of medical imaging instrumentation. More recently the technological developments in several areas of applied physics, the new generation of particle physics detectors and the development of an information based society all combine to enhance the performance of presently available...

57. Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers for EAS study in the EEE Project

Marco Garbini (INFN Bologna)

19/02/2007, 11:35

Contributed Talk

The EEE (Extreme Energy Events) Project is an experiment to study very highenergy air showers through the detection of the muon component using a network of tracking detectors, installed inside Italian High Schools. The EEE project is supported by INFN, CERN, Ministero dell’Universit `a e della Ricerca (MIUR), Centro Fermi and conceived by its leader Antonino Zichichi. The single...

55. Cryogenic detectors for the EDELWEISS Dark Matter Search

Melisa Luca (Uni Claude Bernard Lyon)

19/02/2007, 12:00

Contributed Talk

EDELWEISS is a direct dark matter search looking for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). In order to measure the low energies of nuclear recoils coming from the scattering of WIMPs from the galactic halo, EDELWEISS uses very sensitive Ge cryogenic detectors in a low radioactivity environment. During its first stage, up to 3 Ge 320 g detectors have been used simultaneously....