Conveners
Technology and Industrial Applications
- Hucheng Chen (BNL)
Technology and Industrial Applications
- Magnus Mager (CERN)
In 2018, the European Commission (EC)’s Horizon 2020 Programme funded ATTRACT phase 1, which supported 170 breakthrough technology concepts in the domain of detection and imaging technologies across Europe. The projects were each granted €100,000 in seed funding to create a proof-of-concept. ATTRACT co-innovation approach seeks to act as a bridge between two communities – research and industry...
We present a design project for a muon tomography detector aiming to the monitoring of glacier monitoring. The glacier melting process is not completely understood and is considered an hot topic in lieu of the global warming.
Muon Tomography is a widely used technique, employed to perform imaging of the inner structure of large objects, as volcanoes, container and pyramids. This technique...
The Jagiellonian Positron Emission Tomograph (J-PET) is a detector for: 1. medical imaging by combining metabolic information collected by standard PET with structural information obtained from Positronium lifetime in a concept of morphometric image, 2. tests of discrete symmetries, 3. and even test of quantum entanglement of photons originating from the decay of positronium atoms. The novelty...
Silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) are solid-state photodetector consisting in arrays of hundreds to thousands of Single Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs) per mm$^2$. They feature a photon detection efficiency in excess of 40% at the peak sensitivity wavelength and guarantee an unprecedented photon number resolution at room temperature. These properties, along with low operation voltage,...
Nb3Sn superconducting radiofrequency (SRF) cavities have the potential to expand new performance capabilities of particle accelerators for the benefit of both the fundamental science and the industrial applications, where potential applications among others include wastewater treatment and medical isotope production. For small-scale applications, Nb3Sn SRF creates the opportunity for a...
Silicon PhotoMultipliers (SiPM) are rapidly approaching a significant maturity stage, making them a well recognised platform for the development of evolutionary and novel solutions in a wide range of applications for research and industry. However, they are still affected by stochastic terms, notably a significant Dark Count Rate (DCR) at the level of 50 kHz/mm^2 at room temperature, limiting...
Superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavities are the core technology for particle acceleration in modern accelerators, due to their extremely high quality factors as high as Q > 10^11. These make possible the continuous wave (CW) sustainment of very high electromagnetic fields inside the cavities with minimal dissipation in the cavity walls.
A few years ago, it was realized that the...
Next generation high energy physics experiment will be more granular than current ones, this means more demanding electronics to power the detectors and to process all collected data. Space constrains, cabling, cooling and, last but not least, efficiency are all parameters that need to be optimized during experiment design to have the best performance for data taking.
We will present some...
The use of Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) is drastically increasing in nuclear and particle physics for applications that require a large number of acquisition channels, keeping the system compact with small power consumption. This work aims to explore the possibility to use the ASIC based Citiroc-1A chip, integrated in the CAEN A5202 Fers-5200 board, to acquire γ energy...
Fast neutron spectroscopic measurements are an invaluable tool for many scientific and industrial applications, in particular for Dark Matter (DM) searches. In underground DM experiments, neutron induced background produced by cosmic ray muons and the cavern radioactivity, can mimic the expected DM signal. However, the detection methods are complex measurements and thus measurements remain...
Within the High Energy Physics community, when dealing with sensors of almost any sort, detection efficiency is certainly one of the key parameter at play. By further narrowing the field to pixel detectors, efficiencies of the order of 99% are the baseline, with far better figures actually characterising present state-of-the-art devices. Physics events are costly and time-consuming to produce,...
The ORIGIN project (Optical Fiber Dose Imaging for Adaptive Brachytherapy), supported by the European Commission within the Horizon 2020 framework program, targets the production and qualification of a real-time radiation dose imaging and source localization system for both Low Dose Rate (LDR) and High Dose Rate (HDR) brachytherapy treatments, namely radiotherapy based on the use of...
Muon tomography consists in using muons naturally produced by cosmic rays interactions with the high atmosphere to probe structures in a neither invasive nor destructive way. Following the first muography of a water tower using a muon telescope based on Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors and developed at Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) Saclay in 2015, the...
In particle therapy, proton or ion beams deposit a large fraction of their energy at the end of their paths, i.e. the delivered dose can be focused on the tumor, sparing nearby tissue due to a low entry and almost no exit dose. A novel imaging modality using protons promises to overcome some limitations of particle therapy and will allow the full exploitation of its potential. Being able to...
The original idea that a quantum machine can potentially solve many-body quantum mechanical problems more efficiently than classical computers is due to R. Feynman who proposed the use of quantum computers to investigate the fundamental properties of nature at the quantum scale. In particular, the solution of problems in electronic structure, many-body physics, and high energy physics (just to...
