Name: PSD9: The 9th International Conference on Position Sensitive Detectors
Start: 2011-09-12T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2011-09-16T14:00:00+01:00
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PSD9: The 9th International Conference on Position Sensitive Detectors

from Monday 12 September 2011 (08:00) to Friday 16 September 2011 (14:00)

Monday 12 September 2011

08:00 Registration Opens
Registration Opens
08:00 - 08:30

08:30 Coffee & Registration
Coffee & Registration
08:30 - 09:15
09:15
09:15 - 09:40
Room: Lecture Theatre A12
Contributions

09:15 Welcome To Aberystwyth - Dave Langstaff (Aberystwyth University)

09:25 A Brief History of PSD - Philip Patrick Allport (University of Liverpool (GB))
09:40
09:40 - 10:50
Contributions

09:40 Development of a gamma-ray imager using a large area monolithic 4x4 MPPC array for a future PET scanner - Takeshi Nakamori (Waseda University)

10:00 Position-sensitive Solid-state Photomultiplier Devices - Christopher Stapels (Radiation Monitoring Devices)

10:20 A modular positron camera for positron emission particle tracking in harsh environments - Thomas Leadbeater (University of Birmingham)
10:50 Coffee
Coffee
10:50 - 11:10
11:10
11:10 - 12:50
Contributions

11:10 Position sensitive photon detectors for Nuclear Physics, Particle Physics and Healthcare Applications - Bjoern Seitz (Glasgow University)

11:50 Improving the resolution in soft X-ray emission spectrometers through photon-counting using an Electron Multiplying CCD - David Hall (The Open University)

12:10 EIGER a new single photon counting detector for X Ray applications: performance of the chip. - Valeria Radicci (Paul Scherrer Institute)

12:30 Application of time-tagged photon imaging for trace gas measurement using cavity enhanced absorption spectroscopy - Jonathan Hallam (Univeristy of Leicester)
12:50 Lunch - Sponsored by the Sensors and Instrumentation Knowledge Centre (SIKC) within the ESP KTN and the Welsh Opto-electronics Forum
Lunch - Sponsored by the Sensors and Instrumentation Knowledge Centre (SIKC) within the ESP KTN and the Welsh Opto-electronics Forum
12:50 - 13:50
13:50
13:50 - 15:50
Contributions

13:50 Opportunities for the community towards a Sensors - Technology Innovation Centre (TIC) - Carlos Huggins (Systems Technology Innovation Centre)

14:10 The development of x-ray imaging for aiport security, defence and medical markets - John McGrath (Kromek)

14:50 KE towards High k dielectrics, CMOS and solar cells - Simon Rushworth (NMRC)

15:30 Detection of explosive materials with Gamma Resonant Nuclear Absorption and Argon-Nitrogen TPC - Igor Kreslo (LHEP, Uni-Bern)
15:50 Coffee
Coffee
15:50 - 16:30
16:30
16:30 - 17:30
Contributions

16:30 Tracking of moving fiducial markers during radiotherapy using a CMOS active pixel sensor. - John Osmond (The Institute of Cancer Research & The Royal Marsden NHS Trust)

16:50 A High Purity Germanium detector for Compton imaging in nuclear medicine - Laura Harkness (Department of Physics, University of Liverpool)

17:10 High resolution SFOV gamma camera systems - John Lees (University of Leicester)
19:00 Welcome by VC & Reception
Welcome by VC & Reception
19:00 - 21:00
Tuesday 13 September 2011

08:30 Coffee & Registration
Coffee & Registration
08:30 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 The Silicon Strip Tracker of the Fermi Large Area Telescope - Johan Bregeon (INFN sez. di Pisa)

09:20 Development of high temperature AlGaAs soft X-ray photon counting detectors - John Lees (University of Leicester)

09:40 Planar Semiconductor Compton Imaging using Pulse Shape Analysis - Anthony Sweeney (University of Liverpool)

10:00 One dimensional detector for X-Ray diffraction with superior energy resolution based on silicon strip detector technology - Wladyslaw Dabrowski (AGH University of Science & Technology)

10:20 Pixellated CZT high-energy X-ray instrument - Paul Seller (RAL)
10:40 Coffee
Coffee
10:40 - 11:10
11:10
11:10 - 12:50
Contributions

11:10 LHC detectors overview with emphasis on ATLAS - Beniamino Di Girolamo (CERN)

11:50 ATLAS Silicon Microstrip Tracker Operation and Performance - Joleen Pater (Manchester Universirty)

12:10 Operational experience with the ATLAS Pixel Detector at the LHC. - Carolina De Luca (SUNY)

12:30 Track based alignment of the ATLAS Inner Detector tracking system - Jochen Schieck (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
12:50 Lunch
Lunch
12:50 - 13:50
13:50
13:50 - 15:55
Contributions

13:50 Introduction to Europlanet Workshop - Manuel Grande (Aberystwyth University)

14:05 Life Marker Chip and its Detection Technologies - Mark Sims (Leicester University)

14:45 The use of swept-charge devices in planetary analogue X-ray fluorescence studies - Thomas Walker (Brunel University)

15:05 A Radiation-Hard Silicon Drift Detector Array for Extraterrestrial Element Mapping - Brian Ramsey (NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center)

15:25 Development of the Balloon-Borne sub-MeV Gamma-ray Compton Camera Using an Electron-Tracking Gaseous TPC and a Scintillation Camera - Tetsuya Mizumoto (Kyoto University)
15:55 Coffee
Coffee
15:55 - 16:20
16:20
16:20 - 18:00
Contributions

16:20 Silicon Detectors in Space - Colin Wilburn (Micron Semiconductor)

17:00 Using a CCD for the direct detection of electrons in a low energy space plasma spectrometer - Robert Bedington (UCL - MSSL)

17:20 Europlanet Workshop Summary and Discussion - Manuel Grande (Aberystwyth University)
18:30 BBQ and Beer tasting
BBQ and Beer tasting
18:30 - 21:50
Wednesday 14 September 2011

08:30 Coffee & Registration
Coffee & Registration
08:30 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 10:00
Contributions

09:00 DETECTORS FOR DISTANT DIAGNOSTICS OF NUCLEAR-ENERGETIC INSTALLATION - Anatoly Maltsev (JINR)

09:00 Simulating the effect of interface recombination velocity and fixed oxide charge on the responsivity of arsenic and phosphorus doped n+p PSDs - Xerviar Omeime Esebamen (Mid Sweden University)

09:00 Inaccuracy of coordinate determined by several detectors’ signals - Victor Samedov (National Research Nuclear University (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute))

09:00 Radiation hardness studies of n+-in-n planar pixel sensors irradiated to 5E15 n_eq cm^-2 and beyond for HLLHC - André Rummler (TU Dortmund)

09:00 Improved micro-pixel detector element for neutron measurement under high pressure - Kentaro Toh (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)

09:00 Fast, low-noise, and low-power, electronics for the analog readout of non-linear DEPFET pixels - Carlo Fiorini (Politecnico di Milano and INFN sez MI, Italy)

09:00 Centroiding Methods for Split Events in a Charge Coupled Device used for Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering - Matthew Soman (Open University)

09:00 Characterisation of AGATA HPGe detectors for Pulse Shape Analysis. - Samantha Colosimo (University of Liverpool)

09:00 Position sensitive detectors with SiPM readout for measuring antiproton annihilations - Anna Soter (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Germany)

09:00 Zero Ion Backflow detector operating in pure xenon - Fernando Amaro (GIAN, Physics Dept., Coimbra University, Portugal)

09:00 Performance Comparison of CMOS-based Photodiodes for High Resolution and High Sensitivity Digital Mammography - Bo Kyung Cha (KERI) Dae Hee Lee (KAIST) Dong-uk Kang (KAIST) Hyunjun Yoo (KAIST) Jun Hyung Bae (KAIST) Minsik Cho (KAIST)

09:00 Investigation of the secondary electron emission characteristics of alternative dynode materials for imaging photomultipliers - Brad Cann (University of Leicester) Lapington Jon (University of Leicester) Virgil Taillandier (University of Leicester)

09:00 Basis Pulse Shape Analysis using planar HPGe semiconductor detectors - Jamie Dormand (University of Liverpool)

09:00 Silicon Sensor Developments for the CMS Tracker Upgrade - Alexander Dierlamm (Inst. fuer Experimentelle Kernphysik, KIT)

09:00 Planar slim edge ATLAS pixel sensors for the IBL and high-lumi-LHC upgrades - Tobias Wittig (TU Dortmund)

09:00 Development of X-ray/Gamma-ray Imaging Spectrometer with Reach-through APD Arrays - Takeshi Nakamori (Waseda University)

09:00 Simulation program for multiwire-type two-dimensional neutron detector with individual readout - Hideshi Yamagishi (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)

09:00 Synthesis and scintillation characterization of nanocrystalline Lu2O3(Eu) powder for high-resolution X-ray imaging detectors - Bo Kyung Cha (KERI)

09:00 Improvement of energy thresholds for scintillation detectors using a monolithic 2x2 MPPC array with a coincidence technique - Takamasa Miura (Waseda University)

09:00 Characterization of new hybrid pixel module concepts for the ATLAS Insertable B-layer upgrade - Malte Backhaus (Universität Bonn, Physikalisches Institut)

09:00 Study and Optimization of Positioning Algorithms for Monolithic PET Detector Blocks - Paz García de Acilu (CIEMAT)

09:00 A wavelength-shifting-fibre-based scintillator neutron detector implemented with a median point calculating method - Kentaro Toh (J-PARC center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency)

09:00 Spatial and temporal beam profile monitor with nanosecond resolution for CERN’s Linac4 - Masaki Hori (Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics)

09:00 Electron Multiplying CCDs for future Soft X-ray Spectrometers - James Tutt (The Open University)

09:00 Snapshot Electron Spectroscopy using a Linear Array - Rachel Cross (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)

09:00 Observation of Radiation Damage in the ATLAS Pixel Detector Using the High Voltage Delivery System - Konstantin Toms (University of New Mexico)

09:00 Investigations with Gaseous Electron Multipliers for use on the ISIS spallation neutron source - Dominic Duxbury (Science and Technnology Facilities Council, RAL)

09:00 Picosecond imaging using a capacitive charge division readout - Thomas Conneely (University of Leicester and Photek LTD)

09:00 A Combined Energy and Angular Dispersive X-ray Diffraction System Using a Novel Pixellated X-ray Detector for Material Identification. - Paul Seller (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

09:00 Novel methods for identifying the cause of inherent ageing in Electron Multiplying Charge Coupled Devices - Anthony Evagora (The Open University)

09:00 Operational voltage of silicon heavily irradiated strip detectors utilizing avalanche multiplication effect - Elena Verbitskaya (Ioffe Physical Technical Inst. RAS)

09:00 Development of Beam Profile Monitor for Antiproton Annihilation Cross Section Measurements by the ASACUSA Collaboration - Koichi Todoroki (University of Tokyo)

09:00 Application of a high-speed CMOS image sensor for geometric calibration of cone-beam computed tomography system - Changwoo Seo (Korea Electrotechnology Research Institue)

09:00 Development of High Spatial Resolution Camera for Characterization of X-ray Optics - Haris Kudrolli (Radiation Monitoring Devices)
10:00 Transfer to Old College
Transfer to Old College
10:00 - 10:30

10:30 Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 10:50
Room: Old College
10:50
10:50 - 12:50
Room: Old College
Contributions

10:50 Performance of the LHCb Vertex Locator - Marius Bjornstad (University of Manchester)

11:10 Performance of the present ALICE Inner Tracking System and studies for the upgrade - Giacomo Contin (Dipartimento di Fisica-Universita degli Studi di Trieste / INFN Sezione di Trieste)

11:30 The Belle II DEPFET vertex detector: current status and future plans - Carlos Marinas Pardo (University of Bonn)

11:50 Results from the NA62 Gigatracker prototype: a lowmass and sub-ns time resolution silicon pixel detector - Elena Martin (Catholic University of Louvain)

12:10 Performance of the Resistive Plate Chambers in the CMS experiment - Filip THYSSEN (Universiteit Gent)

12:30 Developement of a novel 2D position-sensitive microstrip detector concept. - Daniela Bassignana (IMB-CNM CSIC)
12:50 Lunch
Lunch
12:50 - 13:50
Room: Old College
13:50
13:50 - 15:50
Room: Old College
Contributions

13:50 Imaging Based on Tracking of Individual Particles with the Timepix Pixel Detector - Jan Jakubek (Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Czech Technical University in Prague)

14:30 Planar Fourier Capture Arrays: Tiny Optical Sensors Built Entirely in Unmodified CMOS - Patrick Gill (Cornell University)

15:10 PImMS, a fast event-triggered pixel detector with storage of multiple timestamps - Jaya John John (Department of Physics, University of Oxford)

15:30 SLID-ICV Vertical Integration Technology with Thin Pixel Sensors for the ATLAS Pixel Upgrades - Philipp Weigell (MPI für Physik)
15:50 Coffee
Coffee
15:50 - 16:10
Room: Old College
16:10
16:10 - 18:10
Room: Old College
Contributions

16:10 The Detector Development Program for the European X-ray Free Electron Laser - Markus Kuster

16:50 Optimization of Silicon Pixel Sensors for the high X-ray Doses of the European XFEL - Joern Schwandt (Institute for Experimental Physics, Hamburg University, Germany)

17:10 Investigation of pixel detector designs for X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy by computer simulations - Julian Becker (DESY)

17:30 AGIPD, the Adaptive Gain Integrating Pixel Detector: A 4.5 MHz camera for the European XFEL - Julian Becker (DESY)

17:50 Active Pixel Sensors for direct detection of Soft X-rays - Andrew Blue (University of Glasgow)
Thursday 15 September 2011

08:30 Coffee & Registration
Coffee & Registration
08:30 - 08:50
08:50
08:50 - 10:50
Contributions

08:50 Recent Developments in Molecular Imaging - Dewi Lewis (CERN)

09:30 The application of Large Area Active Pixel Sensor to high resolution Nuclear Medicine imaging - Robert Ott (Institute of Cancer Research)

09:50 DynAMITe: A Wafer Scale Sensor for Biomedical Applications - Michela Esposito (Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH,U.K.)

10:10 Development of a camera for imaging of prompt gamma rays in measurements of proton beam range - Carlo Fiorini (Politecnico di Milano and INFN sezione di milano,Italy)

10:30 Performance of a high throughput multichannel detector for life science applications - Jon Lapington (University of Leicester)
10:50 Coffee
Coffee
10:50 - 11:10
11:10
11:10 - 12:50
Contributions

11:10 Silicon Strip Detectors for the ATLAS sLHC Upgrade - Paul Dervan (Department of Physics-Oliver Lodge Laboratory-University of Liv)

11:30 Signal propagation and spark mitigation in resistive strips read-outs - Javier Galan (CEA Saclay)

11:50 Recent Progress of the ATLAS Upgrade Planar Pixel Sensor R&D Project - Tobias Wittig (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))

12:10 Characterisation of microstrip and pixel silicon detectors before and after hadron irradiation - Phil Allport (University of Liverpool)

12:30 Performance of the CMS Pixel detector for the Phase I upgrade at HL-LHC - Jan Olzem (DESY Hamburg)
12:50 Lunch
Lunch
12:50 - 13:50
13:50
13:50 - 15:50
Contributions

13:50 Position Sensitive Detectors for Nuclear Structure Physics and their Applications - Helen Boston (Liverpool University)

14:30 Spectra distortion by the interstrip gap in spectrometric silicon strip detectors - Vladimir Eremin (Ioffe Physical Technical Institute RAS)

14:50 AGATA Detector Characterisation using the Liverpool Scanning Table - Steven Moon (University of Liverpool)

15:10 Methodology development for analysis of in-beam AGATA data - Fay Filmer (University of Liverpool)

15:30 Preliminary Compton imaging results of the AGATA A006 detector - Mike Slee (University of Liverpool)
15:50 Coffee
Coffee
15:50 - 16:10
16:10
16:10 - 17:10
Contributions

16:10 Application of a HEPE-oriented 4096-MAPS to time analysis of single electron distributoin in a two-slits interference experiment - Alessandro Gabrielli (Department of Physics, University of Bologna and INFN)

16:30 Imaging and spectroscopic performance studies of pixellated CdTe Timepix detector with synchrotron radiation - Dima Maneuski (University of Glasgow)

16:50 Irradiation and beam tests qualification for ATLAS IBL Pixel Modules - Jens Weingarten (Goettingen University)
17:10
17:10 - 17:50
Contributions

17:10 Development of spark-protected micropattern gaseous detectors with resistive electrodes - Vladimir Peskov (CERN and UNAM, Mexico)

17:30 The ARGONTUBE, a R&D liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber - Christoph Rudolf Von Rohr (LHEP)
19:30

19:30 - 23:00
Friday 16 September 2011

08:30 Coffee & Registration
Coffee & Registration
08:30 - 08:50
08:50
08:50 - 10:40
Contributions

08:50 The AMS-02 spectrometer: first data and detector performance - Giovanni Ambrosi (INFN (Perugia))

09:30 Assessment of proton radiation-induced charge transfer inefficiency in the CCD204 detector for the Euclid dark energy mission - Jason Gow (The Open University)

09:50 Modelling Charge Packet Storage within Euclid CCD Structures. - Andrew Clarke (e2v centre for electronic imaging)

10:10 Performance results from the ZEPLIN-III second science run - Pawel Majewski (STFC/Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
10:40 Coffee
Coffee
10:40 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 11:40
Contributions

11:00 Silicon detector in the ALPHA –experiment for antihydrogen detection - Petteri Pusa (University of Liverpool)
11:40

11:40 - 12:00

12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00

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