Franco Frasconi
(Universita di Pisa & INFN (IT))
2/19/16, 2:00 PM
Astroparticle Detectors
Invited Talk
In the last two decades there has been a growing interest around the possibility to detect on Earth Gravitational Waves emitted by astrophysical sources. One hundred years after Einstein’s presentation to the scientific community of the theory of General Relativity, predicting their existence as a perturbation of space-time traveling through the Universe at the speed of light, a network of...
Raimund Strauss
2/19/16, 2:50 PM
Astroparticle Detectors
Talk
The CRESST-II (Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers) experiment, which second phase has successfully finished in summer 2015, aims at the direct detection of dark matter particles. CRESST uses CaWO$_4$ crystals operated as cryogenic detectors. Compared to previous runs the intrinsic radiopurity of CaWO$_4$ crystals, the capability to reject recoil events from...
Mr
Alexander Hahn
(Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), Munich, Germany)
2/19/16, 3:15 PM
Semiconductor Detectors
Talk
The MAGIC collaboration operates two 17m diameter Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) on the Canary Island of La Palma. Each of the two telescopes is currently equipped with 1039 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). Due to the advances in the development of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs), they are becoming a widely used alternative to PMTs in many research fields including gamma-ray...
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Construction and tests of an in-beam PET-like detector for hadrontherapy beam ballistic control.
Gerard Montarou
(Universite Blaise Pascal de Clermont-Ferrand II)
2/19/16, 4:20 PM
Medical Applications
Talk
We present the electronics, the construction and the first results obtained with a detector, called LAPD for Large Area Pixelized Detector. The LAPD is dedicated to the beam ballistic control in the context of hadrontherapy, using in-beam and real time detection of secondary particles emitted during the irradiation of the patient. These particles could be high energy photons ($\gamma $...
