Name: VCI2016 - The 14th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation
Start: 2016-02-15T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2016-02-19T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Vienna University of Technology

VCI2016 - The 14th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation

from Monday 15 February 2016 (08:00) to Friday 19 February 2016 (18:00)

Monday 15 February 2016

08:00

08:00 - 10:00
10:00 Welcome - Joachim Burgdörfer
Welcome
- Joachim Burgdörfer
10:00 - 10:05
Room: EI7
10:05 Opening - Manfred Krammer (CERN)
Opening
- Manfred Krammer (CERN)
10:05 - 10:10
Room: EI7
10:10 Information from the Organizers - Thomas Bergauer (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
Information from the Organizers
- Thomas Bergauer (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
10:10 - 10:20
Room: EI7
10:20
10:20 - 12:00
Contributions

10:20 New Opportunities for the Time Projection Chamber in its Fourth Decade - David Robert Nygren (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

11:10 Dark Matter Detectors - Stefan Schoenert
12:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:40
Contributions

14:00 Recent Developments in Silicon Detectors - Norbert Wermes (Universitaet Bonn (DE))

14:50 The ultralight DEPFET Pixel Detector of the Belle II Experiment - Florian Jochen Lutticke (Universitaet Bonn (DE))

15:15 The upgraded Pixel Detector of the ATLAS experiment for Run-2 at the Large Hadron collider. - Didier Ferrere (Universite de Geneve (CH))
15:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:15
16:15
16:15 - 17:55
Room: EI7
Contributions

16:15 How can Moore’s Law help making better detectors? - Alessandro Marchioro (CERN)

17:05 Development of Ultra Fast Silicon Detector for 4D tracking - Nicolo Cartiglia (INFN Torino (IT))

17:30 Level-1 track trigger for CMS in HL-LHC - Sergo Jindariani (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
18:00
18:00 - 19:00
Room: EI7
Contributions

18:00 Art and History of Vienna - Markus Friedl (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
19:00

19:00 - 21:00
Tuesday 16 February 2016
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 Recent Progress in Photodetectors - Samo Korpar (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))

09:50 SciFi - A large Scintillating Fibre Tracker for LHCb - Thomas Kirn (Rheinisch-Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))

10:15 SoLid: An innovative antineutrino detector for searching oscillations at the SCK•CEN BR2 reactor - Yamiel Abreu (Universiteit Antwerpen)
10:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:20
11:20
11:20 - 12:35
Room: EI7
Contributions

11:20 From gated to continuous readout: an upgrade of the ALICE TPC - Piotr Gasik (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE))

11:45 Strategies for reducing the environmental impact of gaseous detector operation at the CERN LHC experiments - Beatrice Mandelli (CERN)

12:10 Liquid xenon calorimeter for MEG II experiment with VUV-sensitive MPPCs - Shinji Ogawa (University of Tokyo (JP))
12:35 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:35 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:40
Contributions

14:00 The kaon identification system in the NA62 experiment at CERN SPS - Nicolas Lurkin (University of Birmingham (GB))

14:25 Test-beam and laboratory characterisation of the TORCH prototype detector - Ana Ros Garcia (University of Bristol (GB))

14:50 Photon counting with a FDIRC Cherenkov prototype readout by SiPM arrays - Pier Simone Marrocchesi (University of Siena (IT) and INFN Pisa)

15:15 CLASSIC: Cherenkov Light detection with SiC - Piergiulio Lenzi (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT))
14:00 - 15:40
Contributions

14:00 30-ps Time Resolution with Segmented Scintillation Counter for MEG II - Yusuke Uchiyama (The University of Tokyo)

14:25 New Fast Interaction Trigger for ALICE - Wladyslaw Henryk Trzaska (University of Jyvaskyla (FI))

14:50 Graphical processors for HEP trigger systems - Luca Pontisso (Universita di Pisa & INFN (IT))

15:15 Novel real-time alignment and calibration of the LHCb detector and its performance - Silvia Borghi (University of Manchester (GB))
Radiation Hardness
Radiation Hardness
14:00 - 15:40
Room: EI7
Contributions

14:00 Radiation Hard Silicon Particle Detectors for HL-LHC – RD50 Status Report - Stefano Terzo (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (D)

14:25 Radiation hardness study of Silicon Detectors for the CMS High Granularity Calorimeter (HGCAL) - Esteban Curras Rivera (Universidad de Cantabria (ES))

14:50 Surface effects in segmented silicon sensors - Joern Schwandt (University of Hamburg)

15:15 LHCb VELO: Radiation Damage Effects and Operations in LHC Run 2 - Kazu Carvalho Akiba (Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro (BR))
15:40

15:40 - 16:30
16:30
16:30 - 18:10
Contributions

16:30 A detector for in-beam measurement of the ground state hyperfine splitting of antihydrogen - Clemens Sauerzopf (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

16:55 The MoEDAL detector - a totally different LHC detector - James Pinfold (University of Alberta (CA))

17:20 Imaging the LHC beams with silicon and scintillating fibre vertex detectors - Mariana Rihl (Vienna University of Technology (AT))

17:45 Stability monitoring of historical buildings with a cosmic ray tracking system - Davide Pagano (Universita di Brescia (IT))
Detector Systems
Detector Systems
16:30 - 18:10
Room: EI7
Contributions

16:30 The LHCb VELO Upgrade - Karol Hennessy (University of Liverpool (GB))

16:55 A new timing detector for the CT-PPS detector of CMS - Roberta Arcidiacono (Universita Del Piemonte Orientale (IT))

17:20 The Belle II SVD assembly and mechanics - Stefano Bettarini (University of Pisa and INFN)

17:45 The Silicon Tracking System of the CBM experiment at FAIR - Anton Lymanets (GSI, Darmstadt)
16:30 - 18:10
Contributions

16:30 A novel Silicon Photomultiplier with bulk integrated quench resistors - utilization in optical detection and tracking applications for particle physics - Stefan Petrovics (Semiconductor Laboratory of the Max-Planck Society)

16:55 Performance of the latest prototypes of NUV-HD Silicon Photomultipliers - Gaetano Zappalà (University of Trento)

17:20 Improving the Time Resolution in Cherenkov TOF PET with SiPMs - Rok Dolenec (Institut "Jožef Stefan")

17:45 Study of the breakdown voltage of SiPMs - Robert Klanner (University of Hamburg)
19:30

19:30 - 22:00
Room: Great Hall
Wednesday 17 February 2016
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Room: EI8
Contributions

09:00 FoCal - a high-granularity electromagnetic calorimeter for forward direct photon measurements at LHC - Chunhui Zhang (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

09:25 The upgrade of the BelleII froward calorimeter - Claudia Cecchi (Universita e INFN, Perugia (IT))

09:50 Shower characteristics of particles with momenta up to 150 GeV in the CALICE scintillator-tungsten HCAL - Eva Sicking (CERN)

10:15 Performance in electron beams of a tungsten-CeF3 prototype for radiation-resistant high-energy physics calorimetry - Riccardo Paramatti (INFN - Rome I)
GEMs
GEMs
09:00 - 10:40
Room: EI9
Contributions

09:00 Ion space-charge effects in multi-GEM detectors: challenges and possible solutions for future applications - Patrik Thuiner (Vienna University of Technology (AT))

09:25 The KLOE-2 Inner Tracker: detector commissioning and operation - Gianfranco Morello (Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare Frascati (IT))

09:50 A Novel Technique for the Measurement of the Avalanche Fluctuation of Gaseous Detectors - Makoto Kobayashi (KEK, IPNS)

10:15 Two-phase Cryogenic Avalanche Detector with electroluminescence gap and THGEM/GAPD-matrix multiplier - Andrey Sokolov (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
09:00 - 10:40
Room: EI7
Contributions

09:00 Summary of Medipix Technology's 3-Years in Space and Plans for Future Developments - Lawrence Pinsky (University of Houston)

09:25 Large area CNT-Si heterojunction for photodetection - Carla Aramo (INFN - Napoli)

09:50 Characterization of a large CdZnTe coplanar quad-grid semiconductor detector - Robert Theinert (TU Dortmund)

10:15 First prototypes of two-tier avalanche pixel sensors for particle detection - Lucio Pancheri (University of Trento and TIFPA)
10:40

10:40 - 11:30
11:30 Drift Detectors
Drift Detectors
11:30 - 12:45
Room: EI9
Contributions

11:30 Construction and Test of New Precision Drift-Tube Chambers for ATLAS Muon Spectrometer Upgrades - Hubert Kroha (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (D)

11:55 Development of an extremely thin-wall straw tracker operational in vacuum - The COMET Straw Tracker System - - Hajime Nishiguchi (KEK)

12:20 AXEL - high pressure xenon gas TPC for neutrinoless double beta decay search - Kiseki Nakamura (Kyoto University)
11:30 - 12:45
Room: EI8
Contributions

11:30 Tremendously Increased Lifetime of Microchannel-Plate PMTs - Albert Lehmann (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

11:55 Behaviour of hybrid avalanche photo-detector for the Belle II Aerogel RICH in magnetic field - Luka Santelj (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK))

12:20 Development of solar blind UV extended APD for the readout of Barium Floride crystals - David Hitlin (Caltech)
Strip Detectors
Strip Detectors
11:30 - 12:45
Room: EI7
Contributions

11:30 The ATLAS ITK strip detector - status of R&D - Carlos Garcia Argos (CERN)

11:55 Upgrades of the CMS outer tracker detector for the HL-LHC - Giacomo Sguazzoni (INFN (IT))

12:20 Exploring the quality of latest sensor prototypes for the CMS Outer Tracker Upgrade - Axel Konig (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
15:00

15:00 - 18:00
Thursday 18 February 2016
09:00 Cosmic Particles
Cosmic Particles
09:00 - 10:40
Room: EI8
Contributions

09:00 Detection of High Energy Cosmic Rays with the Auger Engineering Radio Array - Raphael Krause (RWTH Aachen University)

09:25 Operation and performance of the EEE network array for the detection of cosmic rays - Paola La Rocca (Universita e INFN, Catania (IT))

09:50 The Mini-EUSO telescope on the ISS - Valentina Scotti

10:15 CaloCube: a new-concept calorimeter for the detection of high-energy cosmic rays in space - Elena Vannuccini (INFN Florence)
Micromegas
Micromegas
09:00 - 10:40
Room: EI9
Contributions

09:00 GridPix detector - Development and Application - Jochen Kaminski (Universitaet Bonn (DE))

09:25 Performance studies of resistive Micromegas detectors for the upgrade of the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer - Fabian Kuger (Bayerische Julius Max. Universitaet Wuerzburg (DE))

09:50 Anode charge-up in resistive Micromegas and its quenching effect on spark development - Maximilien Chefdeville (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

10:15 LHM: a new noble-liquid detector concept based on bubble-assisted electroluminescence - Eran Erdal (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Pixel 1
Pixel 1
09:00 - 10:40
Room: EI7
Contributions

09:00 The Phase-1 Upgrade of the CMS Pixel Detector - Katja Klein (RWTH Aachen)

09:25 Pixel Sensors with slim edges and small pitches for the CMS upgrades for HL-LHC - Caterina Vernieri (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

09:50 Thin hybrid pixel assembly fabrication development with backside compensation layer - Francisca Munoz Sanchez (University of Manchester (GB))

10:15 The NA62 GigaTracker - Mathieu Perrin-Terrin (CERN)
10:40

10:40 - 11:30
11:30
11:30 - 12:45
Room: EI8
Contributions

11:30 Testbeam results of the first real time embedded tracking system with artificial retina - Nicola Neri (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))

11:55 Electronics Development for the ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter Trigger and Readout for Future LHC Running - Walter Hopkins (University of Oregon (US))

12:20 The ALPIDE Pixel Sensor Chip for the Upgrade of the ALICE Inner Tracking System - Gianluca Aglieri Rinella (CERN)
Micropattern Detectors
Micropattern Detectors
11:30 - 12:45
Room: EI9
Contributions

11:30 Upgrade of the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer for Operation at the HL-LHC - Oliver Kortner (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (D)

11:55 Advances in micro-Resistive WELL ($\mu$-RWELL) detectors - Giovanni Bencivenni (Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare Frascati (IT))

12:20 R&D on a new type of micropattern gaseous detector: the Fast Timing Micropattern detector - Ilaria Vai (Universita e INFN, Pavia (IT))
Diamonds
Diamonds
11:30 - 12:45
Room: EI7
Contributions

11:30 Test beam results of 3D detectors constructed with single-crystal and poly-crystalline diamond - Felix Caspar Bachmair (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

11:55 Progress and questions about sCVD Diamond Detectors for Particle Tracking - Jean-Marie BROM (IPHC - Strasbourg (France))
12:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 - 14:00
14:00 Dark Matter
Dark Matter
14:00 - 15:40
Room: EI8
Contributions

14:00 The COSINUS project: development of new NaI-based cryogenic detectors for direct dark matter search - Achim Gütlein (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

14:25 SABRE: WIMP Modulation Detection in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere - Claudia Tomei (INFN - Roma)

14:50 WIMP tracking with cryogenic nuclear emulsion - Mitsuhiro Kimura (Nagoya University)

15:15 PROSPECTS FOR DETECTION OF WIMP DARK MATTER AND COHERENT NEUTRINO SCATTERING WITH THE LUX-ZEPLIN DETECTOR - Attila Dobi (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
PET
PET
14:00 - 15:40
Room: EI9
Contributions

14:00 State of the art time resolution in TOF-PET detectors for various crystal sizes and types - Stefan Gundacker (CERN)

14:25 Development of High-Resolution Detector Module with Depth of Interaction Identification for Positron Emission Tomography - Tahereh Niknejad (LIP)

14:50 The SAFIR project: Status and perspectives - Chiara Casella (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

15:15 Intraoperative probe for radioguided surgery with beta- decays in brain tumor resection - Elena Solfaroli Camillocci (Sapienza)
Pixel 2
Pixel 2
14:00 - 15:40
Room: EI7
Contributions

14:00 From Vertex detectors to Inner Trackers with CMOS pixel sensors - Luis Alejandro Perez Perez (IPHC - CNRS)

14:25 Current development status of High Voltage and High Resistivity CMOS technology for high energy physics applications - Kestutis Kanisauskas (University of Glasgow (GB))

14:50 Recent results with HV-CMOS and planar sensors for the CLIC vertex detector - Niloufar Alipour Tehrani (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

15:15 The MuPix HV-MAPS system-on-chip for the Mu3e experiment - Dirk Wiedner (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))
15:40

15:40 - 16:30
16:30 Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
16:30 - 18:10
Room: EI8
Contributions

16:30 Operating performance of GCT: an end-to end Schwarzchild-Couder telescope prototype for the Cherenkov Telescope Array - Jean-Laurent Dournaux (GEPI, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, PSL Research University, Université Paris Diderot)

16:55 New application of superconductors: high sensitivity cryogenic light detectors - Laura Cardani (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)

17:20 Performance study of glass RPC detectors for INO-ICAL experiment. - Ankit Gaur (University of Delhi)

17:45 The FLARES project: an innovative detector technology for rare events searches - Luca Gironi (Universita` e INFN di Milano Bicocca)
Hadron Therapy
Hadron Therapy
16:30 - 18:10
Room: EI9
Contributions

16:30 proton Computed Tomography images with algebraic reconstruction - Mara Bruzzi (INFN Firenze and University of Florence (IT))

16:55 Design of a tracking device for on-line dose monitoring in hadron therapy - Silvia Muraro (INFN Sezione di Milano, Milano, Italy)

17:20 The iMPACT project tracker and calorimeter - Serena Mattiazzo (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))

17:45 Development of a compact scintillator-based high-resolution Compton camera for molecular imaging - Aya Kisihimoto (Waseda University)
Pixel 3
Pixel 3
16:30 - 18:10
Contributions

16:30 A low mass vertically integrated pixel system for the HL-LHC - Cinzia Da Via (University of Manchester (GB))

16:55 Improved Process Technologies in the SOI Pixel Detectors - Yasuo Arai (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK))

17:20 Performance of M\"{O}NCH, a 25~$\mu {\mathrm m}$ pixel pitch detector\\for photon science\\ - Marco Ramilli (Paul Scherrer Institut)

17:45 The DEPFET Detector-Amplifier Structure for Spectroscopic Imaging in Astronomy and for Experiments at Free Electron Lasers - Gerhard Lutz (PNSensor GmbH)
19:30

19:30 - 23:00
Friday 19 February 2016
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Room: EI7
Contributions

09:00 Detector requirements for a 100-TeV collider - Werner Riegler (CERN)

09:50 Prospective overview of the CEPC detector - Hongbo Zhu (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))
10:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:20
11:20
11:20 - 12:35
Room: EI7
Contributions

11:20 Status and future perspectives of the ILC project - Satoru Yamashita (ICEPP, The University of Tokyo)

11:45 Studies on Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) modules of a Large Prototype TPC for the ILC - Dimitra Tsionou (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron Hamburg and Zeuthen (DE))

12:10 The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory - Timothée BRUGIERE (IPHC / CNRS-IN2P3)
12:35 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:35 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:40
Room: EI7
Contributions

14:00 Detector evolution for Gravitational Waves observations - Franco Frasconi (Universita di Pisa & INFN (IT))

14:50 A new cryogenic detector for low mass dark matter search with CRESST-III - Raimund Strauss

15:15 Development of a composite large-size SiPM (assembled matrix) based modular detector cluster for MAGIC - Alexander Hahn (Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), Munich, Germany)
15:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:20
16:20
16:20 - 16:45
Room: EI7
Contributions

16:20 Construction and tests of an in-beam PET-like detector for hadrontherapy beam ballistic control. - Gerard Montarou (Universite Blaise Pascal de Clermont-Ferrand II)
16:45 Award Ceremony - Robert Klanner (Hamburg University (DE))
Award Ceremony
- Robert Klanner (Hamburg University (DE))
16:45 - 17:05
Room: EI7
17:05 Summary Talk - Junji Haba (KEK)
Summary Talk
- Junji Haba (KEK)
17:05 - 17:55
Room: EI7
17:55 Closing - Manfred Krammer (CERN)
Closing
- Manfred Krammer (CERN)
17:55 - 18:00

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