Name: 12th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation - VCI 2010
Start: 2010-02-15T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2010-02-20T18:00:00+01:00
Location: TU Vienna

12th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation - VCI 2010

from Monday, 15 February 2010 (09:00) to Saturday, 20 February 2010 (18:00)

Monday, 15 February 2010

09:30 Registration & Coffee
Registration & Coffee
09:30 - 10:00
Room: HS 1
10:00 Welcome Address - Hans Karl Kaiser (Vice-rector of the Vienna Univ. of Technology)
Welcome Address
- Hans Karl Kaiser (Vice-rector of the Vienna Univ. of Technology)
10:00 - 10:20
Room: HS 1
10:20 Opening - Helmut Denk (President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Opening
- Helmut Denk (President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences)
10:20 - 10:40
Room: HS 1
10:40
10:40 - 12:20
Room: HS 1
Contributions

10:40 Large Space Telescopes - Eduardo do Couto e Silva (SLAC)

11:30 The Gigatracker: an ultra fast and low mass silicon pixel detector for the NA62 experiment - Massimiliano Fiorini (CERN)

11:55 Results from the first LHC beam reconstructed tracks in the LHCb Vertex Locator - Chris Parkes (Department of Physics and Astronomy)
12:20 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:20 - 14:00
Room: HS 1
14:00
14:00 - 15:40
Room: HS 1
Contributions

14:00 Techniques and Results for the Direct Detection of Dark Matter - Dmitri Akimov (ITEP, Moscow)

14:50 ATLAS Silicon Tracker commissioning with cosmic ray and beam data - Paolo Morettini (INFN)

15:15 The Silicon Drift Detector of the ALICE experiment - Mario Sitta (Univ. Piemonte Orientale, Fac. Sci. MFN-Unknown-Unknown)
15:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:10
Room: HS 1
16:10
16:10 - 18:15
Room: HS 1
Contributions

16:10 Detector performance of the ALICE Silicon Pixel Detector - Costanza Cavicchioli

16:35 Operational Experience with the CMS Pixel Detectors - Will Johns (Vanderbilt University)

17:00 Calibration, alignment and tracking performance of the CMS Silicon Strip Tracker - Martin Weber (RWTH Aachen University)

17:25 Longevity Studies in the CDF Silicon Detectors - Sergo Jindariani (Fermilab)

17:50 CMS muon detector and trigger performances - Davide Piccolo (Laboratori Nazionali Frascati INFN (on leave of absence from INFN Napoli))
18:15 Vienna: Maps and Magic - Renee Gadsden
Vienna: Maps and Magic
- Renee Gadsden
18:15 - 19:00
Room: HS 1 A cultural journey through the last 1500 years of Viennese history. Not only will we see the architectural jewels and landmarks that make the city famous, we will also get a glimpse at oddities that make the city so special. Additionally, we will look at historical maps and photographs to see how Vienna has developed from a camp of the Roman legion to the flourishing metropolis it is today.
19:00 Welcome Cocktail Party
Welcome Cocktail Party
19:00 - 21:00
Room: HS 1
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Room: HS 1
Contributions

09:00 Detector Concepts at the Linear Collider - Ties Behnke (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY))

09:50 A Large TPC Prototype for an ILC Detector - Peter Schade (DESY)

10:15 Heavy-ion test of detectors with conventional & resistive MicroMegas used in TPC configuration - Jean-Eric Ducret (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, IRFU, F91191 Gif sur Yvette France)
10:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:20
Room: HS 1
11:20
11:20 - 12:35
Room: HS 1
Contributions

11:20 High Energy Resolution in High-Pressure Xe Gas TPCs - Helmuth Spieler (LBL)

11:45 The 10 bar Hydrogen Time Projection Chamber of the MuCap Experiment - Malte Hildebrandt (PSI)

12:10 The Commisioning and Performance of the Outer Tracker Detector for LHCb - Antonio Pellegrino (NIKHEF)
12:35 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:35 - 14:00
Room: HS 1
14:00
14:00 - 15:40
Room: HS 1
Contributions

14:00 Gaseous detectors - Harry Van Der Graaf (NIKHEF)

14:50 Study of avalanche fluctuations and energy resolution with an InGrid-TimePix detector - Paul Colas (CEA/Irfu)

15:15 Progress on large area GEMs - Marco Villa (CERN)
15:40 Coffee Break & Poster Session A
Coffee Break & Poster Session A
15:40 - 16:30
Room: HS 1
16:30
16:30 - 18:35
Room: HS 1
Contributions

16:30 Status of the Cylindrical-GEM Project for the KLOE-2 Inner Tracker - Erika De Lucia (LNF-INFN)

16:55 Advances in GEM-based cryogenic avalanche detectors - Alexei Buzulutskov (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia)

17:20 Triple-GEM detectors for electron, proton and neutron beam diagnostics - Paolo Valente (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Sezione di Roma 1)

17:45 A UV sensitive integrated Micromegas with Timepix readout - Joost Melai (MESA+ institute, University of Twente)
19:30 Soiree Musicale
Soiree Musicale
19:30 - 22:00
Room: Festive Hall
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Room: HS 1
Contributions

09:00 Semiconductor detectors - Frank Hartmann (Inst. fuer Experimentelle Kernphys.-Universitaet Karlsruhe-Unkno)

09:50 The Silicon Vertex Detector of the Belle-II Experiment - Markus Friedl (Institut fuer Hochenergiephysik (HEPHY))

10:15 The Belle-II Pixel Vertex Tracker at the SuperKEKB Flavor Factory - Carlos Marinas Pardo (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC)-Universit)
10:40 Coffee Break & Poster Session B
Coffee Break & Poster Session B
10:40 - 11:30
Room: HS 1
11:30
11:30 - 12:45
Room: HS 1
Contributions

11:30 Diamond Pixel Modules - Daniel Dobos (CERN)

11:55 Silicon Detectors for the sLHC - Sally Seidel (Univ. of New Mexico)

12:20 Charge collection efficiencies of 3D detectors irradiated at SLHC fluences and testbeam operation results - Giulio Pellegrini (Centro Nacional de Microelectronica (CNM), Barcelona)
12:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 - 14:00
Room: HS 1
14:00
14:00 - 15:40
Room: HS 1
Contributions

14:00 Recent Test Beam Results of Radiation Hard 3D Silicon Pixel Sensors - Per Hansson (SLAC)

14:25 The first beam test of a monolithic particle pixel detector in high-voltage CMOS technology - Ivan Peric (University of Heidelberg)

14:50 Performence of CMS ECAL with first LHC data - Giovanni Franzoni (University of Minnesota)

15:15 Towards a 10us, thin high resolution pixelated CMOS sensor system for future vertex detectors - Rita De Masi (IPHC-Strasbourg)
15:40 Coffee Break & Poster Session A
Coffee Break & Poster Session A
15:40 - 16:30
Room: HS 1
16:30
16:30 - 18:35
Room: HS 1
Contributions

16:30 A Program to Determine the Feasibility of MCz silicon as a Detector Material for Super-LHC Tracker Volumes - Leonard Spiegel (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))

16:55 DC-DC Conversion Powering Schemes for the CMS Tracker at Super-LHC - Lutz Feld (RWTH Aachen University)

17:20 Development of SOI Pixel Detectors - Yasuo Arai (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK))

17:45 Charge multiplication in radiation-damaged epitaxial silicon detectors - Jörn Lange (University of Hamburg)

18:10 A system for characterisation of DEPFET silicon pixel matrices and test beam results. - Sergey Furletov (Bonn, Germany; On behalf of the DEPFET Collaboration)
Thursday, 18 February 2010
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Room: HS 1
Contributions

09:00 Particle ID - Eugenio Nappi (INFN, Bari, Italy) Eugenio Nappi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))

09:50 The MPD Detector for the NICA heavy-ion collider at JINR - Vadim Kolesnikov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR))

10:15 Commissioning test of a neutron beam monitor for the high-intensity total diffractometer at J-PARC - Hidetoshi Ohshita (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK))
10:40 Coffee Break & Poster Session B
Coffee Break & Poster Session B
10:40 - 11:30
Room: HS 1
11:30
11:30 - 12:45
Room: HS 1
Contributions

11:30 Development of DIRC counters for the PANDA Experiment at FAIR - Björn Seitz (University of Glasgow)

11:55 The NA62 RICH detector - Giuseppina Anzivino (University of Perugia and INFN)

12:20 Commissioning and performance of the ATLAS Transition Radiation Tracker with Cosmic Rays and first high energy collision at LHC - Peter Wagner (Department of Physics and Astronomy - University of Pennsylvania)
12:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 - 14:00
Room: HS 1
14:00
14:00 - 15:40
Room: HS 1
Contributions

14:00 Simulation of ionisation-based tracking - Rob Veenhof (CERN)

14:50 Study of 144-channel Hybrid Avalanche Photo-Detector for Belle II RICH Counter - Susumu Shiizuka (Nagoya University)

15:15 The development of a high-resolution scintillating fiber tracker with silicon photomultiplier array readout - Gregorio Roper Yearwood (RWTH Aachen University)
15:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:10
Room: HS 1
16:10
16:10 - 18:15
Room: HS 1
Contributions

16:10 A G-APD based camera for Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes - Oliver Grimm (Institut fuer Teilchenphysik-Eidgenossische Tech. Hochschule Zue)

16:35 Study of timing performance of Silicon Photomultiplier and application for a Cherenkov detector - Gamal Ahmed (Stefan Meyer Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Boltzmanngasse 3, 1090 Vienna, Austria., Al-Azhar University, Faculty of Science, Physics Department, 11884, Cairo, Egypt.)

17:00 The First measurements on SiPMs with Bulk Integrated Quench Resistors - Jelena Ninkovic (Max PlanckInstitute for Physics)

17:25 Tests of a Silicon Photomultiplier Module for Detection of Cherenkov Photons - Rok Dolenec (Institut "Jožef Stefan")

17:50 Studies of Silicon Photo-Multipliers at cryogenic temperatures - Giuseppina Bisogni
19:30 Conference Banquet
Conference Banquet
19:30 - 22:00
Room: Wappensaal
Friday, 19 February 2010
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Room: HS 1
Contributions

09:00 Calorimeters - Erika Garutti (DESY)

09:50 Instrumentation for the Northern Site of the Pierre Auger Observatory - David Nitz (Michigan Technological University)

10:15 The Baikal Neutrino Project: Present and Perspective - Nikolai Budnev (Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, Russia)
10:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:20
Room: HS 1
11:20
11:20 - 12:35
Room: HS 1
Contributions

11:20 The ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter at the LHC - Iro Koletsou (LAPP)

11:45 LHCb calorimeter calibration - Miriam Calvo Gomez (Universidad de Barcelona)

12:10 Test Beam Performance of the CALICE SiW Electromagnetic Calorimeter Physics Prototype - Daniel Jeans (Ecole Polytechnique)
12:35 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:35 - 14:00
Room: HS 1
14:00
14:00 - 15:15
Room: HS 1
Contributions

14:00 CASCADE, neutron detectors for highest count rates in combination with ASIC/FPGA based readout electronics - Martin Klein (Univ. Heidelberg)

14:50 Improved efficiency of high resolution thermal and cold neutron imaging - Anton Tremsin (University of California at Berkeley)
15:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:15 - 15:55
Room: HS 1
15:55
15:55 - 17:10
Room: HS 1
Contributions

15:55 Enhancement of the hadron electron discrimination in calorimeters by detection of the neutron component. - Oscar Adriani (Università and INFN Firenze) Raffaello D'Alessandro (Università and INFN Firenze)

16:20 Performance of the Liquid Xenon Detector for the MEG experiment - Yasuhiro Nishimura (The University of Tokyo)

16:45 Performance Of Shashlik Calorimeters Read Out By Silicon Photomultipliers - Erik Vallazza (INFN Trieste (Italy))
17:10 Award Ceremony - Robert Klanner (University of Hamburg)
Award Ceremony
- Robert Klanner (University of Hamburg)
17:10 - 17:30
Room: HS 1
17:30 Summary Talk - Amos Breskin (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)
Summary Talk
- Amos Breskin (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)
17:30 - 18:20
Room: HS 1 In this talk, the presenter will summarize all contributions of this conference with emphasis to the new and exciting new developments.
Saturday, 20 February 2010
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Room: HS 1
Contributions

09:00 The Clear-PEM Breast Imaging Scanner - Jorge Neves (LIP - Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics)

09:25 Demonstration of an Axial PET concept for brain and small animal imaging - Paolo Beltrame (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))

09:50 Results from Prototypes of Some Environmental and Health Alarm Devices Based on Gaseous Detectors Operating in Air in Counting Mode - Vladimir Peskov (CERN)

10:15 Photonic Crystals: A Novel Approach to Enhance the Light Output of Scintillation Based Detectors - Arno Knapitsch (CERN)
10:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:10
Room: HS 1
11:10
11:10 - 13:15
Room: HS 1
Contributions

11:10 PICASSO: A Detector for Phase-Contrast Mammography with Synchrotron Radiation - Luigi Rigon (INFN, Sezione di Trieste, Via Valerio 2, 34127 Trieste, Italy)

11:35 Application of the Medipix2 Technology to Space Radiation Dosimetry and Hadron Therapy Beam Monitoring - Lawrence Pinsky (University of Houston-Physics Dept.-Houston, Texas USA)

12:00 Performances of silicon detectors for the SiliPET project: A Small Animal PET Scanner based on Stacks of Silicon Detectors - Natalia Auricchio (Università di Ferrara and INFN - Ferrara)

12:25 Dose Imaging Detectors for Radiotherapy Based on Gas Electron Multipliers - Alexander Klyachko (Indiana University Cyclotron Facility)

12:50 Development of an Electron-Tracking Compton Camera using CF4 gas at high pressure for improved detection efficiency - Michiaki Takahashi (Japan)
13:15 Closing
Closing
13:15 - 13:35
Room: HS 1

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