Research Techniques Seminar

These seminars cover technical topics of interest to experimentalists. Topics include detector R&D, construction and calibration methods, test beam results, as well as data analysis methods.

Please send requests and comments to Marcel Demarteau (demarteau@fnal.gov).

Date	Time/Location	Speaker	Topic
October 31, 2008	Curia II	Harry van der Graaf	GridPix/Gossip
TBA	Curia II	Razmick Mirzoyan	The cross-talk problem in SiPMs and their use as light sensors in multichannel imaging cameras
May 20, 2008	Curia II, 11am	Ben McMorran	Matter Wave Interferometry with Poorly Collimated Beams
February 26, 2008	Curia II, 2pm	Dr. Stefan Ritt	Tackling the search for Lepton Flavor Violation with GHz waveform digitizing using the DRS chip
November 8, 2007	10:00am, Curia II	Adam Para	First look at the Hamamatsu MPPC
October 1, 2007	1:30pm, 1 West	Themis Bowcock	The LHCb Vertex Detector
August 9, 2007	1:00 pm, Hornet's Nest	Aldo Penzo, INFN-Trieste	Compensating Hadron Calorimetry
July 24, 2007	2:00 pm, West Wing	A. Nepomuk Otte	The Geiger-APD: a novel photon detector and its application in astrophysics experiments and positron emission tomography
June 14, 2007	2:00pm, West Wing	James Hamilton	Diamonds in Washington & Volcanic Dust in Hawaii: Optical Surface Studies Using First Contact Polymers
May 14, 07	11:00am, Curia II	Giorgio Giacomelli	Magnetic Monopole Searches
March 12, 07	10:00am, Curia II	Max Goncharov	Calorimeter Timing System at CDF
March 6, 07	1:30pm, West Wing	Dawei Zheng	Kotura, Silicon Photonic technology and capabilities
Feb 27, 07	2pm, Curia II	Howard Wieman	A High Resolution Vertex Detector for the STAR Experiment at RHIC
Feb. 22, 07	10:00am, Curia II	Alessandro Curioni	Experimental Study of Neutrino Interactions on Ar with a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber
Feb. 12, 07	1:30pm West Wing	Carl Jackson, Kieran Flynn	Low Light Sensing with Silicon Photomulipliers
Oct. 31, 06	2:00pm 1 West	Philippe Gorodetzky	Precise Absolute Calibration of a PMT in a Single Photoelectron Mode
Oct. 25, 06	11:00am 1 West	Claudio Piemonte, Nicoleta Dinu	Development of Silicon Photomultipliers at ITC-irst and Measurement of the Photodetection efficiency of SiPMs at ITC-irst
Sept. 25, 06	1:00pm Curia II	Frank Gaede	Simulation and Reconstruction Software for the ILC
July 17, 06	2:00pm Curia II	Marcel Trimpl	DEPFET Pixels for the ILC Vertex Detector
June 6, 06	11:00 a.m. WH 1North	Hans-Guenther Moser	The DEPFET Active Pixel Sensor as Vertex Detector for the ILC, pdf
May 4, 06	2:00 p.m. Comitium - WH2SE	Valerie Saveliev	Silicon Photomultipliers: Recent Development and Application
May 2, 06		Grzegorz Deptuch	Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors for Not Visible Light Applications: Advantages and Limitations
November-30-05		Wlodek Guryn	Results from the PP2PP Experiment at RHIC and Future Plans
November-9-05		Vasile Buzuloiu	Research in Signal Processing at LAPI 2 3 4 5
August-10-05		Steve Worm	LCFI: Pixels for the ILC
July-27-05		Malcolm Ellis	A Scintillating Fibre Tracker for MICE
July-13-05		Henry Frisch and Harold Sanders	Pico-Second Time-of Flight Detector and Electronics Development
June-1-05		Tom Shutt	The XENON Dark Matter Experiment
April-13-05		Jonathan Link	Searching for Reactor Neutrino Oscillations at Braidwood
March-10-05		David Reyna	Double-CHOOZ: A New Experiment to Measure Theta_13
January-11-05		Takahiro Matsumoto	Particle ID at Belle: Present Status and Upgrade Plans
November-18-04		Mike Ronan	Micromegas TPC R&D for the ILC
July-7-04		Silvia Schuh	High Precision X-ray Tomography in Quality Control for the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer
May-19-04		Jun Miyamoto	Micro Patterned Gas Detectors
October-15-03		Jim Freeman	Highlights of the Erice Workshop on Innovative Detectors for Supercoliders
August-19-03		Reiner Klingenberg	Design, Status, and Progress of the Atlas Pixel Detector
May-27-03		Nicoleta Dinu	Electrical Characterization of Silicon Micro-strip Sensors