Workshop on Timing Detectors: from particle physics to medical applications

Oct 15, 2008, 8:30 AM → Oct 16, 2008, 6:00 PM Europe/Zurich

IPN Lyon

Wednesday, October 15

8:30 AM → 9:00 AM Registration

9:00 AM → 9:15 AM Welcome

Slides IPNL-bref.pdf IPNL-bref.ppt

9:15 AM → 10:30 AM Fast timing and TOF session

9:15 AM Fast timing and TOF in physics

Speaker: Henry Frisch

Slides Lyon_Workshop_Oct15_final2.pdf Lyon_Workshop_Oct15_final2.ppt

9:45 AM Fast timing and TOF in PET medical imaging

Speaker: Bill Moses

Slides Moses_TOF_PET.ppt.pdf Moses_TOF_PET.ppt.ppt

10:15 AM Discussion

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM News from photodetectors

11:00 AM Pixellated Picosecond Detectors (Photek)

Speaker: Jon Howorth

Slides Howorth_-_PPDs.pdf Howorth_-_PPDs.ppt

11:30 AM News from Photonis

Speaker: Emile Schyns

12:00 PM Hammamatsu MCP update

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM → 4:00 PM Electronics and read-out (I)

2:00 PM Update of the SAM chip performances measured on a USB powered board

Speaker: Eric Delagnes / Dominique Breton

Slides ED_Timing_WS_151008.pdf ED_Timing_WS_151008.ppt

2:30 PM 10ps Timing with the BLAB series ASICs

Speaker: Gary Varner

Slides BLAB_status_Lyon.pdf

3:00 PM First results from the DRS4 fast sampling chip

Speaker: Stefan Ritt (PSI)

Slides ritt.pdf ritt.ppt

3:30 PM First results from the CERN TDC chip

Speaker: Christian Mester

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Coffee break

4:30 PM → 7:00 PM Electronics and read-out (II)

4:30 PM Picosecond timing using microchannel plates

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

5:00 PM Filter transmission line read out of MCP

Speaker: Fukun Tang

Slides Tang_lyon.pdf

5:30 PM Electronics simulation

Speaker: David Salek

Slides lyon.pdf

6:00 PM Discussion

7:30 PM → 10:30 PM Workshop dinner

Thursday, October 16

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Test results and readout (I)

9:00 AM Progress on the development of TOF concept using MCP-PMT detectors at SLAC

Speaker: Jerry Va'Vra

Slides Vavra_Lyon_talk.pdf

9:30 AM Tests of MCP-PMT for the TOP counter

Speaker: Kenji Inami

Slides MCP-inami.pdf

10:00 AM FNAL Test beam and Future MCP developments at ANL

Speaker: Karen Byrun / Gary Drake

Slides Lyon-Byrum.pdf Lyon-Byrum.ppt

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Test results and readout (II)

11:00 AM Results from the CERN test beam

Speaker: Andrew Brandt

Slides TB-Lyon.pdf TB-Lyon.ppt

11:30 AM Gastof and picosecond resolution ToF detectors at the LHC

Speaker: Krzysztof Piotrzkowski

Slides gastof2.pdf

12:00 PM GASTOF: C++ simulation and comparison with TB data

Speaker: Nicolas Schul

Slides Lyon_Schul.pdf

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch break

1:30 PM → 3:30 PM Applications in Physics and medicine (I)

1:30 PM The ATLAS Forward Physics project

Speaker: Christophe Royon

Slides lyon.pdf

2:00 PM Use of fast timing for positron beam

Speaker: Patrick Nedelec

2:30 PM Chicago PET Development and Recent Progress in Digital TOFPET

Speaker: Chin-Tu Chen

Slides Lyon1008CTChen.pdf Lyon1008CTChen.ppt

3:00 PM Timing resolution of scintillation detectors: A Monte Carlo analysis

Speaker: Woon-Seng Choong

Slides choong-Lyon2008-PicoTiming.pdf

3:30 PM → 3:50 PM Coffee break

3:50 PM → 4:50 PM Applications in Physics and Medicine (II)

3:50 PM INNOTEP project

Speaker: Gerard Montarou

Slides picosecond_Lyon_16_10_2008.pdf picosecond_Lyon_16_10_2008.ppt

4:20 PM Front electronics read out for MCP - ABC

Speaker: Julien Lollierou / Yves Lemoigne

Slides IPN-Lyon08-ESI.pdf IPN-Lyon08-ESI.ppt

4:50 PM → 5:20 PM Conclusion - Final Discussion