Workshop on Timing Detectors: from particle physics to medical applications

from Wednesday 15 October 2008 (08:30) to Thursday 16 October 2008 (18:00)
IPN Lyon

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
15 Oct 2008
16 Oct 2008
AM
08:30 --- Registration ---
09:00 Welcome  
Slides
09:15
Fast timing and TOF session (until 10:30)
09:15 Fast timing and TOF in physics - Henry Frisch  
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09:45 Fast timing and TOF in PET medical imaging - Bill Moses  
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10:15 Discussion  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
News from photodetectors (until 12:30)
11:00 Pixellated Picosecond Detectors (Photek) - Jon Howorth  
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11:30 News from Photonis - Emile Schyns  
12:00 Hammamatsu MCP update  
09:00
Test results and readout (I) (until 10:30)
09:00 Progress on the development of TOF concept using MCP-PMT detectors at SLAC - Jerry Va'Vra  
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09:30 Tests of MCP-PMT for the TOP counter - Kenji Inami  
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10:00 FNAL Test beam and Future MCP developments at ANL - Karen Byrun / Gary Drake  
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10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Test results and readout (II) (until 12:30)
11:00 Results from the CERN test beam - Andrew Brandt  
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11:30 Gastof and picosecond resolution ToF detectors at the LHC - Krzysztof Piotrzkowski  
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12:00 GASTOF: C++ simulation and comparison with TB data - Nicolas Schul  
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PM
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Electronics and read-out (I) (until 16:00)
14:00 Update of the SAM chip performances measured on a USB powered board - Eric Delagnes / Dominique Breton  
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14:30 10ps Timing with the BLAB series ASICs - Gary Varner  
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15:00 First results from the DRS4 fast sampling chip - Stefan Ritt (PSI)  
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15:30 First results from the CERN TDC chip - Christian Mester  
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
Electronics and read-out (II) (until 19:00)
16:30 Picosecond timing using microchannel plates - Jean-Francois Genat  
17:00 Filter transmission line read out of MCP - Fukun Tang  
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17:30 Electronics simulation - David Salek  
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18:00 Discussion  
19:30 --- Workshop dinner ---
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
13:30
Applications in Physics and medicine (I) (until 15:30)
13:30 The ATLAS Forward Physics project - Christophe Royon  
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14:00 Use of fast timing for positron beam - Patrick Nedelec  
14:30 Chicago PET Development and Recent Progress in Digital TOFPET - Chin-Tu Chen  
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15:00 Timing resolution of scintillation detectors: A Monte Carlo analysis - Woon-Seng Choong  
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15:30 --- Coffee break ---
15:50
Applications in Physics and Medicine (II) (until 16:50)
15:50 INNOTEP project - Gerard Montarou  
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16:20 Front electronics read out for MCP  - ABC - Julien Lollierou / Yves Lemoigne  
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16:50 Conclusion - Final Discussion