Conveners
Applications: session 1
- Paul Rene Michel Lecoq
Applications: Session 2
- Ioan Dafinei (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))
Applications: session 3
- Christian Morel (CPPM)
Future high energy physics experiments will require major improvements in the performances of hadron and jet calorimetry. Because of the challenging conditions in which they will be operated, unprecedented levels of energy and timing resolutions, as well as efficient particle identification are required. An approach based on heavy inorganic crystal fibers to form a fully homogeneous...
Future HEP experiments at the energy and intensity frontiers require fast inorganic crystal scintillators with excellent radiation hardness to face the challenges of unprecedented event rate and severe radiation environment. This paper reports recent progress in application of fast inorganic scintillators for future HEP experiments, such as thin LYSO crystals for a shashlik sampling...
High energy physics need radiation hard large area detectors. The composite base scintillators are an alternative to bulk scintillation detector due to ability to make the large area detectors at reasonable price.
This work is devoted to the development of thin-layer scintillation detectors development for high granularity calorimeters. Depending on radiation intensity, the use of detectors...
The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab searches for the charged-lepton flavour violating
neutrino-less conversion of a negative muon into an electron in the field of
a aluminum nucleus. The dynamics of such a process is well
modelled by a two-body decay, resulting in a mono-energetic electron with
an energy slightly below the muon rest mass (104.967 MeV).
If no events are observed in three years of...
The Electron Ion Collider (EIC) is a new facility that has been proposed in the US to study the structure of nuclear matter with precision electromagnetic probes at sufficiently high energies and with sufficient luminosity to access the gluon dominated regime of QCD with high statistical precision, and with polarized beams to enable a complete picture of the spin structure of the nucleon. Two...
There is a strong interest and demand for high quality lead tungstate crystals (PbWO4, PWO) for electromagnetic (EM) calorimetry. PWO has been implemented into the EM calorimeter of the CMS-ECAL detector at LHC and is required for the completion of the PANDA-EMC in the target spectrometer. In spite of moderate radiation hardness in an environment of high hadron fluences, PWO represents an...
The harsh radiation environment in which detectors will have to operate during the High Luminosity phase of the LHC (HL-LHC) represents a crucial challenge for many calorimeter technologies. In the CMS forward calorimeters, ionizing doses and hadron fluences will reach up to 300 kGy (at a dose rate of 30 Gy/h) and 2E14 cm-2, respectively, at the pseudorapidity region of |ฮท|=2.6.
To evaluate...
Absolute masses and Majorana nature of neutrinos can be revealed if neutrino-less double beta decays are observed. To achieve enough sensitivity for the extremely rare events, it is required to have detection techniques capable of distinguishing extremely rare signals over a significant radioactive background from both inside and outside of the detectors. One of the most promising techniques...
Calcium molybdate based crystalline materials show good potential for laser physics and acousto-optics due to a combination of a wide range of functional properties [1]. Currently these crystals are efficiently used as humidity sensors and optical elements of stimulated Raman scattering lasers.
Over the last decades there has been a growing interest towards CaMoO4 (space group 4/m, scheelite...
Scintillation Properties of (Zn, Mg) WO4 for Dark Matter Search
Shunsuke Kurosawa$^{1,2}$, Hiroyuki Sekiya$^3$, Takahiko Horiai$^4$, Akihiro Yamaji$^4$, Shohei Kodama$^4$, Rikito Murakami$^4$, Yasuhiro Shoji$^{4,5}$, Yuji Ohashi$^3$, Yuui Yokota$^1$, Kei Kamada$^{1,5}$, Akira Yoshikawa${1, 4, 5}$, Akimasa Ohnishi$^2$, Mamoru Kitaura$^2$
1New Industry Creation Hatchery Center, Tohoku...
The space experiment of DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) developed in China is designed to find the evidence of dark matter particle by observing primary cosmic rays and gamma rays in energy range from 5 GeV to 10 TeV. Since its launch in December 2015, a large quantity of data has been recorded.
The BGO Electromagnetic Calorimeter (BGO ECAL) of the DAMPE is a total absorption calorimeter...
The search for particle dark matter is one of the most active fields in physics, with many experiments using different methods to search for possible dark matter candidates. Direct-detection experiments look for rare interactions between some detector mass and these dark matter particles. The DAMA/LIBRA experiment utilizes thallium-doped sodium iodide (NaI(Tl)) crystals at room temperature to...
We describe the scintillation properties of n-type GaAs at cryogenic temperatures for the detection of sub-GeV dark matter particles. The density of dark matter in the galactic halo is about 0.6 GeV/c2/cm3, they have average velocities of about 0.001 c in random directions as they orbit the galaxy, and have not been detected by large-scale experiments designed for the GeV/c2 mass range. Dark...
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a multi-purpose underground neutrino experiment. The center detector of JUNO consists of 20,000 tons of liquid scintillator (LS) contained in an acrylic sphere of 35.4 m in diameter and viewed by ~18,000 20-inch photomultiplier tubes. The energy resolution of JUNO is designed to be 3% at 1 MeV, corresponding to a light output of at least...
LIGHT YIELD ENHANCEMENT OF THE 157-GADOLINIUM OXYSULFIDE SCINTILLATOR SCREENS FOR THE HIGH-RESOLUTION NEUTRON IMAGING
Jan Crha1,2, Joan Vila-Comamala3, Eberhard Lehmann1, Christian David4, Pavel Trtik1,2
1Neutron Imaging and Activation Group, Laboratory for Neutron Scattering and Imaging, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, CH-5232, Switzerland
2Experimental Centre, Faculty of Civil...
The Dynamic Compression Sector (DCS) at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) links a high-energy, tunable X-ray beamline to state-of-the-art dynamic compression plat-forms. This novel development will permit real-time X-ray measurements (diffraction, imaging, scattering) in dynamically compressed materials (peak stresses to over 350 GPa, and time duration ranging from ~5 ns to microseconds). Thus,...
X-ray detector market faces an annual growth of about 5% due to technological advancement, ageing of the population and the increasing use of medical imaging. Trixell, founded in 1997, was one of the first producers to propose digital flat panels for medical radiology. In its detectors, the X-ray detection is indirect and the scintillating function is given by a microcolumnar CsI:Tl layer. In...
Scintillation based point detectors have been used in radiation therapy since the early 1990s [1] primarily for pre-treatment quality assurance of patient plans and radiation sources. One common treatment modality is brachytherapy (BT) in which a sealed radioisotope is guided inside pre-inserted catheters in the tumor volume to deliver high radiation doses to the tumor with steep dose...
We have recently developed a novel application for organic liquid scintillator detectors in Radiation Oncology to measure or image the radiation absorbed dose from external radiation therapy beams in 3D. Initial feasibility studies1 using one charge-coupled device (CCD) were investigated by Beddar et al in 2009. The present study will be focused only on scanning proton beams used...
Particle Therapy (PT) is an increasingly widespread kind of radiation therapy in which solid tumors are treated with charged light ions beams to exploit the highly localized dose delivery that can be achieved, allowing to spare the healthy tissues surrounding the organs at risk. During the irradiation a large amount of secondary particles is produced as a consequence of the interactions...
In order to ensure early stage detection of cancer, PET scanners have to achieve high performances in terms of spatial resolution and sensitivity.
An innovative PET detector module able to provide high spatial resolution was developed [1]. The high spatial resolution can be achieved thanks to a new method to extract Depth Of Interaction (DOI) information while keeping the complexity and the...
