Speaker
Dr
Alexey Stoykov
(Paul Scherrer Institut)
Description
Avalanche Microchannel PhotoDiodes (AMPDs) are solid state photodetectors with high
internal gain and density of independent channels up to 10^4/mm^2.
They are potential substitutes for photomultiplier tubes in a wide variety
of applications in nuclear physics and nuclear medicine. The use of AMPDs is most
promising when fine segmentation of the detectors and their operation in high
magnetic fields is required.
Here we present our ongoing developments of AMPDs and scintillation detectors based
on them focusing on position sensitive and fast timing detectors to be used in high
magnetic fields and gamma detectors for positron emission tomography.
The research work is supported in part by the INTAS grant 04-78-6839.
Author
Dr
Alexey Stoykov
(Paul Scherrer Institut)
Co-authors
Prof.
Alexandr Olshevski
(Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)
Dr
Dieter Renker
(Paul Scherrer Institut)
Prof.
Eckart Lorenz
(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
Dr
Igor Zheleznykh
(Institute for Nuclear Research of Russian Academy of Sciences)
Mr
Ilia Britvitch
(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
Dr
Robert Scheuermann
(Paul Scherrer Institut)
Prof.
Ziraddin Sadygov
(Joint Institute for Nuclear Research / Institute of Physics of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences)
