Workshop on picosecond photon sensors for physics and medical applications

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

Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (Other Institutes)

Wednesday 12 March

12:00 → 13:30 Registration and lunch

13:30 → 14:00 Introduction session

13:30 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 INTRO_WORKSHOP_ON_PICOSECOND_PHOTON_SENSORS.pdf

13:45 Fast timing recent development and overview - Highlights from the 2013 NSS-MIC conference

Speaker: Patrick LE DU (IPN Lyon)

Slides Clermont_workshop_introduction_LeDu.pdf Clermont_workshop_introduction_LeDu.ppt

14:00 → 15:25 Photodetector session I

14:00 LAPPD status

Speaker: Oswald Siegmund (University of California, Berkeley)

Slides Siegmund-Frisch.Clermont2014.pdf

14:25 PPS/Timing with Si (vidyo)

Speaker: Mr Nicolo Cartiglia (INFN)

Slides CF_UFSD_Cartiglia.pdf CF_UFSD_Cartiglia.pptx

14:50 Application of atomic layer deposited microchannel plates to fast timing, imaging detectors

Speaker: Oswald Siegmund (University of California, Berkeley)

Slides Siegmund.Clermont2014.pdf

15:25 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 18:00 Photodetector session II

16:00 The TORCH PMT, a close packing, multi-anode, long life MCP-PMT for Cherenkov applications

Speaker: James Milnes

Slides The_TORCH_PMT,_a_close_packing,_multi-anode,_long_life_MCP-PMT_for_Cherenkov_applications.pdf The_TORCH_PMT,_a_close_packing,_multi-anode,_long_life_MCP-PMT_for_Cherenkov_applications.pptx

16:25 Diamond detector (vidyo)

Speaker: Dr Gabriele Chiodini (Universita del Salento (IT))

Slides Diamond_Clemont_2014_02_14.pdf

16:50 Fundamental limits on the time resolution of the scintillation detectors:timing

Speaker: Dr Dennis Schaart (Delft University of Technology)

Slides Schaart_fast_timing_workshop_Clermont_140312.pdf

17:15 PSEC4 electronics (vidyo)

Speaker: eric oberla (uchicago)

Slides 2014_3_10_ClermontPSEC4.pdf

Thursday 13 March

09:00 → 10:30 Electronics and readout session I

09:00 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 Clermont_Workshop_Dominique.pdf Clermont_Workshop_Dominique.ppt

09:25 A new timing calibration method for Switched Capacitor Array chips to achieve sub-picosecond resolutions

Speaker: Dr Stefan Ritt (Paul Scherrer Institute)

Slides ritt.pdf ritt.pptx

09:50 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 ED_SAMPIC_Clermont_mars2014.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 13:05 Electronics and readout session II

11:00 Signal Processing for Fast Photo-detectors

Speaker: Jean-Francois Genat (CNRS/IN2P3)

Slides Clermont_jeff.pdf Clermont_jeff.pptx

11:25 An application of the DRS4 chip : the ASM Board

Speaker: Magali Magne (Univ. Blaise Pascal Clermont-Fe. II (FR))

Slides An_application_of_the_DRS4_chip_magne.pdf

11:50 The use of ASM board for dose control in hadrontherapy

Speaker: Loic Lestand

Slides Pico_Sec_L_Lestand.pdf

12:15 Advanced technique for high accuracy tunable ring oscillator vernier TDC in FPGAs and ASICs

Speaker: Claude Girerd

Slides TimingWorkshopClermont-girerd.pdf

12:40 Mordicus software and sampic tests

Speaker: Georgiy Stelmakh

Slides STELMAKH_Clermont.pdf STELMAKH_Clermont.pptx

13:05 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 16:05 Application session I

14:00 Lifetime of Microchannel-Plate

Speaker: Alexander Wolfgang Britting (Friedrich-Alexander-Univ. Erlangen (DE))

Slides britting_clermont_march14.pdf

14:25 Development of fast frontend electronics for single-photon timing in RICH counters

Speaker: Matthias Hoek (University of Glasgow)

Slides mhoek_fast_fee_clermont_2014.pdf mhoek_fast_fee_clermont_2014.pptx

14:50 LHCb Torch

Speaker: Maarten Van Dijk (University of Bristol (GB))

Slides 13-03-2014_-_Picosecond_Timing_Workshop_-_Clermont-Ferrand.pdf 13-03-2014_-_Picosecond_Timing_Workshop_-_Clermont-Ferrand.pptx

15:15 Plans for a Picosecond HPTDC

Speaker: James Pinfold (University of Alberta (CA))

Slides Towards_a_Picosecond_HPTDC.pdf

15:40 Picosecond gas Cerenkov detectors

Speaker: Krzysztof Piotrzkowski (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))

Slides gastof_clermont2.pdf

16:05 → 16:30 Cofee break

16:30 → 18:40 Application session II

16:30 QUARTIC (vidyo)

Speaker: Michael Albrow (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Slides quarticMar-13-2014.pdf

16:55 Fundamental Limits of Timing Resolution for Scintillation Detectors

Speaker: William Moses (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Slides Timing_Simulation_2014.pdf Timing_Simulation_2014.pptx

17:20 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

17:45 Particle therapy : need for fast timing

Speaker: Ilaria Rinaldi

Slides Rinaldi2014_timing.pdf

18:10 TOF-PET concept with axial geometry and digital SiPM readout

Speaker: Chiara Casella (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

Slides Casella_TimingWorkshop_ClermontFerrand.pdf

19:30 → 22:30 Workshop dinner

Friday 14 March

09:00 → 10:40 Application session III: Forward Physics

09:00 Timing detectors for proton tagging at the LHC

Speaker: Christophe Royon (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))

Slides clermont.pdf

09:25 Timing detectors for Totem (vidyo)

Speaker: Joachim Baechler (CERN)

09:50 Role of timing in pileup mitigation for CMS Phase II upgrades

Speaker: Prof. Sebastian White (Rockefeller University (US))

Slides clermont_white.pdf

10:15 Fast timing system for LHC time-of-flight detector

Speaker: Andrew Gerhart Brandt (University of Texas at Arlington (US))

Slides timing-overview-CF-vf.pdf timing-overview-CF-vf.pptx

10:40 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Application session IV: Forward Physics

11:00 Fast timing electronics

Speaker: Michael Rijssenbeek (State University of New York (US))

Slides AFP-2014-03-14_ToF-Eelectronics_MR.pdf AFP-2014-03-14_ToF-Eelectronics_MR.pptx

11:25 Picosecond Photon Detectors for the LHC - Radio Frequency Streak Camera

Speaker: Amur Margaryan (Alikhanian National Science Laboratory)

Slides Margaryan-LHC-AFP-March-14-2014-1.pdf

11:50 Discussion and conclusion

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch break