VCI2016 - The 14th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation

Session

Plenary 1

15 Feb 2016, 10:20

Vienna University of Technology

Conveners

Plenary 1

• Manfred Krammer (CERN)

449. New Opportunities for the Time Projection Chamber in its Fourth Decade

David Robert Nygren (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

15/02/2016, 10:20

Gaseous Detectors

Invited Talk

Now in its fourth decade, the Time Projection Chamber (TPC) idea continues to find new and novel applications in nuclear and particle physics, rare longevity in the arsenal of experimental techniques. I examine some of the recent implementations as exemplars of the scientific aspirations, with focus on a bizarre idea to exploit single molecule fluorescent imaging as a means to identify the...

444. Dark Matter Detectors

Stefan Schoenert

15/02/2016, 11:10

Astroparticle Detectors

Invited Talk