Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2012
Volume 57, Number 3
Saturday–Tuesday, March 31–April 3 2012; Atlanta, Georgia
Session C2: Invited Session: Instrumentation in High Energy Physics |
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Sponsoring Units: DPF Chair: Alice Bean, University of Kansas Room: Regency Ballroom V |
Saturday, March 31, 2012 1:30PM - 2:06PM |
C2.00001: Coordinating detector research and development in the U.S. Invited Speaker: Marcel Demarteau High Energy Physics (HEP) is embarking on a new age of discovery at the cosmic, intensity, and energy frontiers. However, HEP projects are technically complex, have very long lead times, and have significant costs associated with them that are outstripping the internationally available public funding for the field. In the current challenging environment it is crucial to bridge the various science disciplines and agencies to develop both evolutionary and transformative detector instrumentation, as this is our best hope to successfully accomplish the mission of HEP, and for the country to retain its lead in innovation. Various models will be discussed. [Preview Abstract] |
Saturday, March 31, 2012 2:06PM - 2:42PM |
C2.00002: The lartge-area picosecond photo-detector (LAPPD) project Invited Speaker: Gary Varner The technological revolution that replaced the bulky Cathode Ray Tube with a wide variety of thin, reduced-cost display technologies, has yet to be realized for photosensors. Such a low-cost, robust and flexible photon detector, capable of efficient single photon measurement with good spatial and temporal resolution, would have numerous scientific, medical and industrial applications. To address the significant technological challenges of realizing such a disruptive technology, the Large Area Picosecond Photo-Detector (LAPPD) collaboration was formed, and has been strongly supported by the Department of Energy. This group leverages the inter-disciplinary capabilities and facilities at Argonne National Laboratory, the Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL), electronics expertise at the Universities of Chicago and Hawaii, and close work with industrial partners to extend the known technologies. Advances in theory-inspired design and in-situ photocathode characterization during growth, Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) for revolutionizing micro-channel plate fabrication, and compact, wave-form sampling CMOS ASIC readout of micro striplines are key tools toward realizing a viable LAPPD device. Progress toward a first 8" x 8" demonstrator module will be presented. [Preview Abstract] |
Saturday, March 31, 2012 2:42PM - 3:18PM |
C2.00003: A New Water-based Liquid Scintillator for Large Neutrino Physics Invited Speaker: Minfang Yeh A new type of scintillating liquid based on water has been developed at Brookhaven National Laboratory (Chemistry {\&} Physics). The concept, preparation, and properties of this liquid, and how it could be used for a very large, but economical detector will be discussed in the talk. The applications of such a detector range from fundamental physics such as nucleon decay and neutrino physics to physics with broader application such as neutron detection. We will briefly describe the scientific requirements of these applications, and how they can be satisfied by this new material. [Preview Abstract] |
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