Workshop on picosecond photon sensors for physics and medical applications

Name: Workshop on picosecond photon sensors for physics and medical applications
Start: 2014-03-12T12:00:00+01:00
End: 2014-03-14T14:00:00+01:00
Location: Other Institutes

12 Mar 2014, 12:00 → 14 Mar 2014, 14:00 Europe/Zurich

Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (Other Institutes)

Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire

Other Institutes

Clermont-Ferrand

Wednesday 12 March
- 12:00
  
  Registration and lunch
- Introduction session
  - 1
    
    Welcome
    
    Speakers: Christophe Royon (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)), Gerard Montarou (Universite Blaise Pascal de Clermont-Ferrand II), Patrick LE DU (IPN Lyon)
    
    Slides
  - 2
    
    Fast timing recent development and overview - Highlights from the 2013 NSS-MIC conference
    
    Speaker: Patrick LE DU (IPN Lyon)
    
    Slides
- Photodetector session I
  - 3
    
    LAPPD status
    
    Speaker: Oswald Siegmund (University of California, Berkeley)
    
    Slides
  - 4
    
    PPS/Timing with Si (vidyo)
    
    Speaker: Mr Nicolo Cartiglia (INFN)
    
    Slides
  - 5
    
    Application of atomic layer deposited microchannel plates to fast timing, imaging detectors
    
    Speaker: Oswald Siegmund (University of California, Berkeley)
    
    Slides
- 15:25
  
  Coffee break
- Photodetector session II
  - 6
    
    The TORCH PMT, a close packing, multi-anode, long life MCP-PMT for Cherenkov applications
    
    Speaker: James Milnes
    
    Slides
  - 7
    
    Diamond detector (vidyo)
    
    Speaker: Dr Gabriele Chiodini (Universita del Salento (IT))
    
    Slides
  - 8
    
    Fundamental limits on the time resolution of the scintillation detectors:timing
    
    Speaker: Dr Dennis Schaart (Delft University of Technology)
    
    Slides
  - 9
    
    PSEC4 electronics (vidyo)
    
    Speaker: eric oberla (uchicago)
    
    Slides
Thursday 13 March
- Electronics and readout session I
  - 10
    
    Measuring time with a 5-ps precision at the systel level with the WaveCatcher family of SCA-based fast digitizers
    
    Speaker: Dominique Robert Breton (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))
    
    Slides
  - 11
    
    A new timing calibration method for Switched Capacitor Array chips to achieve sub-picosecond resolutions
    
    Speaker: Dr Stefan Ritt (Paul Scherrer Institute)
    
    Slides
  - 12
    
    SAMPIC: a 16-channel self-triggered waveform-based TDC chip with ps timing capabilities
    
    Speaker: Eric Delagnes (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))
    
    Transparents
- 10:30
  
  Coffee break
- Electronics and readout session II
  - 13
    
    Signal Processing for Fast Photo-detectors
    
    Speaker: Jean-Francois Genat (CNRS/IN2P3)
    
    Slides
  - 14
    
    An application of the DRS4 chip : the ASM Board
    
    Speaker: Magali Magne (Univ. Blaise Pascal Clermont-Fe. II (FR))
    
    Slides
  - 15
    
    The use of ASM board for dose control in hadrontherapy
    
    Speaker: Loic Lestand
    
    Slides
  - 16
    
    Advanced technique for high accuracy tunable ring oscillator vernier TDC in FPGAs and ASICs
    
    Speaker: Claude Girerd
    
    Slides
  - 17
    
    Mordicus software and sampic tests
    
    Speaker: Georgiy Stelmakh
    
    Slides
- 13:05
  
  Lunch break
- Application session I
  - 18
    
    Lifetime of Microchannel-Plate
    
    Speaker: Alexander Wolfgang Britting (Friedrich-Alexander-Univ. Erlangen (DE))
    
    Slides
  - 19
    
    Development of fast frontend electronics for single-photon timing in RICH counters
    
    Speaker: Matthias Hoek (University of Glasgow)
    
    Slides
  - 20
    
    LHCb Torch
    
    Speaker: Maarten Van Dijk (University of Bristol (GB))
    
    Slides
  - 21
    
    Plans for a Picosecond HPTDC
    
    Speaker: James Pinfold (University of Alberta (CA))
    
    Slides
  - 22
    
    Picosecond gas Cerenkov detectors
    
    Speaker: Krzysztof Piotrzkowski (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))
    
    Slides
- 16:05
  
  Cofee break
- Application session II
  - 23
    
    QUARTIC (vidyo)
    
    Speaker: Michael Albrow (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
    
    Slides
  - 24
    
    Fundamental Limits of Timing Resolution for Scintillation Detectors
    
    Speaker: William Moses (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
    
    Slides
  - 25
    Ultimate Time Resolution in Calorimtery and Time-of-Flight PET
    
    Speaker: Paul Lecoq (CERN)
    
    Slides
    
    grating.avi
    
    no_grating.avi
    
    PL-Ultimate_Time_Resolution_in_Calorimetry_and_TOFPET.pdf
    
    PL-Ultimate_Time_Resolution_in_Calorimetry_and_TOFPET.pptx
  - 26
    
    Particle therapy : need for fast timing
    
    Speaker: Ilaria Rinaldi
    
    Slides
  - 27
    
    TOF-PET concept with axial geometry and digital SiPM readout
    
    Speaker: Chiara Casella (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))
    
    Slides
- 19:30
  
  Workshop dinner
Friday 14 March
- Application session III: Forward Physics
  - 28
    
    Timing detectors for proton tagging at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Christophe Royon (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))
    
    Slides
  - 29
    
    Timing detectors for Totem (vidyo)
    
    Speaker: Joachim Baechler (CERN)
  - 30
    
    Role of timing in pileup mitigation for CMS Phase II upgrades
    
    Speaker: Prof. Sebastian White (Rockefeller University (US))
    
    Slides
  - 31
    
    Fast timing system for LHC time-of-flight detector
    
    Speaker: Andrew Gerhart Brandt (University of Texas at Arlington (US))
    
    Slides
- 10:40
  
  Coffee break
- Application session IV: Forward Physics
  - 32
    
    Fast timing electronics
    
    Speaker: Michael Rijssenbeek (State University of New York (US))
    
    Slides
  - 33
    
    Picosecond Photon Detectors for the LHC - Radio Frequency Streak Camera
    
    Speaker: Amur Margaryan (Alikhanian National Science Laboratory)
    
    Slides
  - 34
    
    Discussion and conclusion
- 12:30
  
  Lunch break