Workshop on Timing Detectors: from particle physics to medical applications

Name: Workshop on Timing Detectors: from particle physics to medical applications
Start: 2008-10-15T08:30:00+02:00
End: 2008-10-16T18:00:00+02:00
Location: IPN Lyon

15 Oct 2008, 08:30 → 16 Oct 2008, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

IPN Lyon

Wednesday 15 October
- Wed 15 Oct
- Thu 16 Oct
- 08:30 → 09:00
  
  Registration 30m
- 09:00 → 09:15
  
  Welcome 15m
  
  Slides
- 09:15 → 10:30
  Fast timing and TOF session
  - 09:15
    
    Fast timing and TOF in physics 30m
    
    Speaker: Henry Frisch
    
    Slides
  - 09:45
    
    Fast timing and TOF in PET medical imaging 30m
    
    Speaker: Bill Moses
    
    Slides
  - 10:15
    
    Discussion 15m
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:00 → 12:30
  News from photodetectors
  - 11:00
    
    Pixellated Picosecond Detectors (Photek) 30m
    
    Speaker: Jon Howorth
    
    Slides
  - 11:30
    
    News from Photonis 30m
    
    Speaker: Emile Schyns
  - 12:00
    
    Hammamatsu MCP update 30m
- 12:30 → 14:00
  
  Lunch break 1h 30m
- 14:00 → 16:00
  Electronics and read-out (I)
  - 14:00
    
    Update of the SAM chip performances measured on a USB powered board 30m
    
    Speaker: Eric Delagnes / Dominique Breton
    
    Slides
  - 14:30
    
    10ps Timing with the BLAB series ASICs 30m
    
    Speaker: Gary Varner
    
    Slides
  - 15:00
    
    First results from the DRS4 fast sampling chip 30m
    
    Speaker: Stefan Ritt (PSI)
    
    Slides
  - 15:30
    
    First results from the CERN TDC chip 30m
    
    Speaker: Christian Mester
- 16:00 → 16:30
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 16:30 → 19:00
  Electronics and read-out (II)
  - 16:30
    Picosecond timing using microchannel plates 30m
    
    Speaker: Jean-Francois Genat
    
    Slides
    
    JFG_Lyon_10_15_08-1.pdf
    
    JFG_Lyon_10_15_08-1.ppt
    
    JFG_Lyon_10_15_08.pdf
  - 17:00
    
    Filter transmission line read out of MCP 30m
    
    Speaker: Fukun Tang
    
    Slides
  - 17:30
    
    Electronics simulation 30m
    
    Speaker: David Salek
    
    Slides
  - 18:00
    
    Discussion 30m
- 19:30 → 22:30
  
  Workshop dinner 3h
Thursday 16 October
- Wed 15 Oct
- Thu 16 Oct
- 09:00 → 10:30
  Test results and readout (I)
  - 09:00
    
    Progress on the development of TOF concept using MCP-PMT detectors at SLAC 30m
    
    Speaker: Jerry Va'Vra
    
    Slides
  - 09:30
    
    Tests of MCP-PMT for the TOP counter 30m
    
    Speaker: Kenji Inami
    
    Slides
  - 10:00
    
    FNAL Test beam and Future MCP developments at ANL 30m
    
    Speaker: Karen Byrun / Gary Drake
    
    Slides
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:00 → 12:30
  Test results and readout (II)
  - 11:00
    
    Results from the CERN test beam 30m
    
    Speaker: Andrew Brandt
    
    Slides
  - 11:30
    
    Gastof and picosecond resolution ToF detectors at the LHC 30m
    
    Speaker: Krzysztof Piotrzkowski
    
    Slides
  - 12:00
    
    GASTOF: C++ simulation and comparison with TB data 30m
    
    Speaker: Nicolas Schul
    
    Slides
- 12:30 → 13:30
  
  Lunch break 1h
- 13:30 → 15:30
  Applications in Physics and medicine (I)
  - 13:30
    
    The ATLAS Forward Physics project 30m
    
    Speaker: Christophe Royon
    
    Slides
  - 14:00
    
    Use of fast timing for positron beam 30m
    
    Speaker: Patrick Nedelec
  - 14:30
    
    Chicago PET Development and Recent Progress in Digital TOFPET 30m
    
    Speaker: Chin-Tu Chen
    
    Slides
  - 15:00
    
    Timing resolution of scintillation detectors: A Monte Carlo analysis 30m
    
    Speaker: Woon-Seng Choong
    
    Slides
- 15:30 → 15:50
  
  Coffee break 20m
- 15:50 → 16:50
  Applications in Physics and Medicine (II)
  - 15:50
    
    INNOTEP project 30m
    
    Speaker: Gerard Montarou
    
    Slides
  - 16:20
    
    Front electronics read out for MCP - ABC 30m
    
    Speaker: Julien Lollierou / Yves Lemoigne
    
    Slides
- 16:50 → 17:20
  
  Conclusion - Final Discussion 30m