12th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation - VCI 2010

from Monday, 15 February 2010 (09:00) to Saturday, 20 February 2010 (18:00)
TU Vienna (HS 1)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
15 Feb 2010
16 Feb 2010
17 Feb 2010
18 Feb 2010
19 Feb 2010
20 Feb 2010
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09:30 --- Registration & Coffee ---
10:00 Welcome Address - Prof. Hans Karl Kaiser (Vice-rector of the Vienna Univ. of Technology)   (HS 1)
10:20 Opening - Prof. Helmut Denk (President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences)   (HS 1)
10:40
Large Detector Systems 1 - Manfred Krammer (Institut fuer Hochenergiephysik (HEPHY)) (until 12:20) (HS 1)
10:40 Large Space Telescopes - Prof. Eduardo do Couto e Silva (SLAC)   (HS 1)
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11:30 The Gigatracker: an ultra fast and low mass silicon pixel detector for the NA62 experiment - Massimiliano Fiorini (CERN)   (HS 1)
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11:55 Results from the first LHC beam reconstructed tracks in the LHCb Vertex Locator - Chris Parkes (Department of Physics and Astronomy)   (HS 1)
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09:00
Gaseous Detectors 1 (until 10:40) (HS 1)
09:00 Detector Concepts at the Linear Collider - Ties Behnke (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY))   (HS 1)
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09:50 A Large TPC Prototype for an ILC Detector - Mr Peter Schade (DESY)   (HS 1)
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10:15 Heavy-ion test of detectors with conventional & resistive MicroMegas used in TPC configuration - Dr Jean-Eric Ducret (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, IRFU, F91191 Gif sur Yvette France)   (HS 1)
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10:40 --- Coffee Break ---
11:20
Gaseous Detectors 2 (until 12:35) (HS 1)
11:20 High Energy Resolution in High-Pressure Xe Gas TPCs - Helmuth Spieler (LBL)   (HS 1)
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11:45 The 10 bar Hydrogen Time Projection Chamber of the MuCap Experiment - Dr Malte Hildebrandt (PSI)   (HS 1)
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12:10 The Commisioning and Performance of the Outer Tracker Detector for LHCb - Antonio Pellegrino (NIKHEF)   (HS 1)
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09:00
Semiconductor Detectors 1 (until 10:40) (HS 1)
09:00 Semiconductor detectors - Frank Hartmann (Inst. fuer Experimentelle Kernphys.-Universitaet Karlsruhe-Unkno)   (HS 1)
09:50 The Silicon Vertex Detector of the Belle-II Experiment - Dr Markus Friedl (Institut fuer Hochenergiephysik (HEPHY))   (HS 1)
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10:15 The Belle-II Pixel Vertex Tracker at the SuperKEKB Flavor Factory - Carlos Marinas Pardo (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC)-Universit)   (HS 1)
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10:40 --- Coffee Break & Poster Session B ---
11:30
Semiconductor Detectors 2 (until 12:45) (HS 1)
11:30 Diamond Pixel Modules - Dr Daniel Dobos (CERN)   (HS 1)
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11:55 Silicon Detectors for the sLHC - Prof. Sally Seidel (Univ. of New Mexico)   (HS 1)
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12:20 Charge collection efficiencies of 3D detectors irradiated at SLHC fluences and testbeam operation results - Dr Giulio Pellegrini (Centro Nacional de Microelectronica (CNM), Barcelona)   (HS 1)
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09:00
Particle ID 1 (until 10:40) (HS 1)
09:00 Particle ID - Prof. Eugenio Nappi (INFN, Bari, Italy) Eugenio Nappi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))   (HS 1)
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09:50 The MPD Detector for the NICA heavy-ion collider at JINR - Vadim Kolesnikov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR))   (HS 1)
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10:15 Commissioning test of a neutron beam monitor for the high-intensity total diffractometer at J-PARC - Dr Hidetoshi Ohshita (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK))   (HS 1)
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10:40 --- Coffee Break & Poster Session B ---
11:30
Particle ID 2 (until 12:45) (HS 1)
11:30 Development of DIRC counters for the PANDA Experiment at FAIR - Dr Björn Seitz (University of Glasgow)   (HS 1)
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11:55 The NA62 RICH detector - Prof. Giuseppina Anzivino (University of Perugia and INFN)   (HS 1)
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12:20 Commissioning and performance of the ATLAS Transition Radiation Tracker with Cosmic Rays and first high energy collision at LHC - Mr Peter Wagner (Department of Physics and Astronomy - University of Pennsylvania)   (HS 1)
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09:00
Calorimeters 1 (until 10:40) (HS 1)
09:00 Calorimeters - Dr Erika Garutti (DESY)   (HS 1)
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09:50 Instrumentation for the Northern Site of the Pierre Auger Observatory - Prof. David Nitz (Michigan Technological University)   (HS 1)
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10:15 The Baikal Neutrino Project: Present and Perspective - Nikolai Budnev (Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, Russia)   (HS 1)
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10:40 --- Coffee Break ---
11:20
Calorimeters 2 (until 12:35) (HS 1)
11:20 The ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter at the LHC - Ms Iro Koletsou (LAPP)   (HS 1)
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11:45 LHCb calorimeter calibration - Dr Miriam Calvo Gomez (Universidad de Barcelona)   (HS 1)
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12:10 Test Beam Performance of the CALICE SiW Electromagnetic Calorimeter Physics Prototype - Dr Daniel Jeans (Ecole Polytechnique)   (HS 1)
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09:00
Applications 1 (until 10:40) (HS 1)
09:00 The Clear-PEM Breast Imaging Scanner - Mr Jorge Neves (LIP - Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics)   (HS 1)
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09:25 Demonstration of an Axial PET concept for brain and small animal imaging - Dr Paolo Beltrame (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))   (HS 1)
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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)   (HS 1)
10:15 Photonic Crystals: A Novel Approach to Enhance the Light Output of Scintillation Based Detectors - Arno Knapitsch (CERN)   (HS 1)
10:40 --- Coffee Break ---
11:10
Applications 2 (until 13:15) (HS 1)
11:10 PICASSO: A Detector for Phase-Contrast Mammography with Synchrotron Radiation - Dr Luigi Rigon (INFN, Sezione di Trieste, Via Valerio 2, 34127 Trieste, Italy)   (HS 1)
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11:35 Application of the Medipix2 Technology to Space Radiation Dosimetry and Hadron Therapy Beam Monitoring - Prof. Lawrence Pinsky (University of Houston-Physics Dept.-Houston, Texas USA)   (HS 1)
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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)   (HS 1)
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12:25 Dose Imaging Detectors for Radiotherapy Based on Gas Electron Multipliers - Dr Alexander Klyachko (Indiana University Cyclotron Facility)   (HS 1)
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12:50 Development of an Electron-Tracking Compton Camera using CF4 gas at high pressure for improved detection efficiency - Mr Michiaki Takahashi (Japan)   (HS 1)
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12:20 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Large Detector Systems 2 - Hans Jurgen Hilke (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)) (until 15:40) (HS 1)
14:00 Techniques and Results for the Direct Detection of Dark Matter - Dr Dmitri Akimov (ITEP, Moscow)   (HS 1)
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14:50 ATLAS Silicon Tracker commissioning with cosmic ray and beam data - Mr Paolo Morettini (INFN)   (HS 1)
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15:15 The Silicon Drift Detector of the ALICE experiment - Dr Mario Sitta (Univ. Piemonte Orientale, Fac. Sci. MFN-Unknown-Unknown)   (HS 1)
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15:40 --- Coffee Break ---
16:10
Large Detector Systems 3 - Hans Jurgen Hilke (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)) (until 18:15) (HS 1)
16:10 Detector performance of the ALICE Silicon Pixel Detector - Costanza Cavicchioli   (HS 1)
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16:35 Operational Experience with the CMS Pixel Detectors - Will Johns (Vanderbilt University)   (HS 1)
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17:00 Calibration, alignment and tracking performance of the CMS Silicon Strip Tracker - Dr Martin Weber (RWTH Aachen University)   (HS 1)
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17:25 Longevity Studies in the CDF Silicon Detectors - Dr Sergo Jindariani (Fermilab)   (HS 1)
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17:50 CMS muon detector and trigger performances - Dr Davide Piccolo (Laboratori Nazionali Frascati INFN (on leave of absence from INFN Napoli))   (HS 1)
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18:15 Vienna: Maps and Magic - Dr Renee Gadsden   (HS 1)
19:00 --- Welcome Cocktail Party ---
12:35 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Gaseous Detectors 3 (until 15:40) (HS 1)
14:00 Gaseous detectors - Harry Van Der Graaf (NIKHEF)   (HS 1)
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14:50 Study of avalanche fluctuations and energy resolution with an InGrid-TimePix detector - Paul Colas (CEA/Irfu)   (HS 1)
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15:15 Progress on large area GEMs - Marco Villa (CERN)   (HS 1)
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15:40 --- Coffee Break & Poster Session A ---
16:30
Gaseous Detectors 4 (until 18:35) (HS 1)
16:30 Status of the Cylindrical-GEM Project for the KLOE-2 Inner Tracker - Dr Erika De Lucia (LNF-INFN)   (HS 1)
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16:55 Advances in GEM-based cryogenic avalanche detectors - Prof. Alexei Buzulutskov (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia)   (HS 1)
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17:20 Triple-GEM detectors for electron, proton and neutron beam diagnostics - Dr Paolo Valente (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Sezione di Roma 1)   (HS 1)
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17:45 A UV sensitive integrated Micromegas with Timepix readout - Mr Joost Melai (MESA+ institute, University of Twente)   (HS 1)
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19:30 --- Soiree Musicale ---
12:45 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Semiconductor Detectors 3 (until 15:40) (HS 1)
14:00 Recent Test Beam Results of Radiation Hard 3D Silicon Pixel Sensors - Per Hansson (SLAC)   (HS 1)
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14:25 The first beam test of a monolithic particle pixel detector in high-voltage CMOS technology - Dr Ivan Peric (University of Heidelberg)   (HS 1)
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14:50 Performence of CMS ECAL with first LHC data - Giovanni Franzoni (University of Minnesota)   (HS 1)
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15:15 Towards a 10us, thin high resolution pixelated CMOS sensor system for future vertex detectors - Rita De Masi (IPHC-Strasbourg)   (HS 1)
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15:40 --- Coffee Break & Poster Session A ---
16:30
Semiconductor Detectors 4 (until 18:35) (HS 1)
16:30 A Program to Determine the Feasibility of MCz silicon as a Detector Material for Super-LHC Tracker Volumes - Dr Leonard Spiegel (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))   (HS 1)
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16:55 DC-DC Conversion Powering Schemes for the CMS Tracker at Super-LHC - Prof. Lutz Feld (RWTH Aachen University)   (HS 1)
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17:20 Development of SOI Pixel Detectors - Yasuo Arai (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK))   (HS 1)
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17:45 Charge multiplication in radiation-damaged epitaxial silicon detectors - Jörn Lange (University of Hamburg)   (HS 1)
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18:10 A system for characterisation of DEPFET silicon pixel matrices and test beam results. - Dr Sergey Furletov (Bonn, Germany; On behalf of the DEPFET Collaboration)   (HS 1)
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12:45 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Particle ID 3 (until 15:40) (HS 1)
14:00 Simulation of ionisation-based tracking - Dr Rob Veenhof (CERN)   (HS 1)
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14:50 Study of 144-channel Hybrid Avalanche Photo-Detector for Belle II RICH Counter - Mr Susumu Shiizuka (Nagoya University)   (HS 1)
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15:15 The development of a high-resolution scintillating fiber tracker with silicon photomultiplier array readout - Gregorio Roper Yearwood (RWTH Aachen University)   (HS 1)
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15:40 --- Coffee Break ---
16:10
Particle ID 4 (until 18:15) (HS 1)
16:10 A G-APD based camera for Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes - Oliver Grimm (Institut fuer Teilchenphysik-Eidgenossische Tech. Hochschule Zue)   (HS 1)
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16:35 Study of timing performance of Silicon Photomultiplier and application for a Cherenkov detector - Mr 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.)   (HS 1)
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17:00 The First measurements on SiPMs with Bulk Integrated Quench Resistors - Dr Jelena Ninkovic (Max PlanckInstitute for Physics)   (HS 1)
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17:25 Tests of a Silicon Photomultiplier Module for Detection of Cherenkov Photons - Mr Rok Dolenec (Institut "Jožef Stefan")   (HS 1)
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17:50 Studies of Silicon Photo-Multipliers at cryogenic temperatures - Dr Giuseppina Bisogni   (HS 1)
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19:30 --- Conference Banquet ---
12:35 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Calorimeters 3 (until 15:15) (HS 1)
14:00 CASCADE, neutron detectors for highest count rates in combination with ASIC/FPGA based readout electronics - Martin Klein (Univ. Heidelberg)   (HS 1)
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14:50 Improved efficiency of high resolution thermal and cold neutron imaging - Dr Anton Tremsin (University of California at Berkeley)   (HS 1)
15:15 --- Coffee Break ---
15:55
Calorimeters 4 (until 17:10) (HS 1)
15:55 Enhancement of the hadron electron discrimination in calorimeters by detection of the neutron component. - Prof. Raffaello D'Alessandro (Università and INFN Firenze) Prof. Oscar Adriani (Università and INFN Firenze)   (HS 1)
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16:20 Performance of the Liquid Xenon Detector for the MEG experiment - Mr Yasuhiro Nishimura (The University of Tokyo)   (HS 1)
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16:45 Performance Of Shashlik Calorimeters Read Out By Silicon Photomultipliers - Erik Vallazza (INFN Trieste (Italy))   (HS 1)
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17:10 Award Ceremony - Robert Klanner (University of Hamburg)   (HS 1)
17:30 Summary Talk - Amos Breskin (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)   (HS 1)
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13:15 --- Closing ---