Name: 7th international workshop on new Photon-Detectors (PD2025)
Start: 2025-12-02T16:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-12-06T19:00:00+01:00
Location: Bologna, Italy

Monday 1 December 2025
Tuesday 2 December 2025

17:00 Visit to INFN Laboratories
Visit to INFN Laboratories
17:00 - 18:00
Room: INFN Laboratories

18:00 Aperitivo at INFN Laboratories
Aperitivo at INFN Laboratories
18:00 - 19:00
Room: INFN Laboratories
Wednesday 3 December 2025

08:00 Registration
Registration
08:00 - 09:00
Room: Auditorium Enzo Biagi
09:00
09:00 - 09:30
Room: Auditorium Enzo Biagi
Contributions

09:00 Welcome from the Workshop Organisers - Roberto Preghenella (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

09:05 Welcome from the Director of the INFN Division of Bologna - Eugenio Scapparone (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

09:10 Welcome from the Director of the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Bologna - Andrea Cimatti

09:15 Workshop Organisation Details - Luigi Pio Rignanese (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
09:30
09:30 - 10:30
Room: Auditorium Enzo Biagi
Contributions

09:30 Radiation damage in Silicon Photomultipliers - Erika Garutti

09:55 Radiation damage studies of silicon photomultipliers for the CMS MIP Timing Detector - Yuri Musienko (University of Notre Dame (US))

10:13 Effect of Increased DCR on the Detection of Minimum Ionizing Particles with SiPMs - Katjana Neumann (Universitaet Hamburg)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Auditorium Enzo Biagi
11:00
11:00 - 12:45
Room: Auditorium Enzo Biagi
Contributions

11:00 Radiation Hardness Chacterisation of Silicon Photomultipliers for Next-Generation Particle Identification Detectors - Boris Gardinovački (Institute Jožef Stefan)

11:18 Photon detectors at the frontiers of particle identification - Silvia Gambetta (University of Edinburgh)

11:43 The ALICE 3 RICH detector: prototype beam test results - Mario Nicola Mazziotta (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

12:01 Photodetectors in the EIC instrumentation strategy - Alexander Kiselev (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

12:26 Ultra-Fast Small-Angle Calorimeter for Photon Detection at KOTO II - Pierluigi Fedeli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
12:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 - 14:00
Room: Auditorium Enzo Biagi
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Auditorium Enzo Biagi
Contributions

14:00 Photodector and Scintillator Development for the LHCb PicoCal - Julie Delenne (CERN)

14:18 Requirements for Digital SiPMs in fibre sampling dual-readout calorimeter at future lepton colliders - Romualdo Santoro (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

14:36 Pushing analog SiPM performance: innovations and custom solutions - Alberto Giacomo Gola (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

15:01 3D-integrated SPAD-CMOS detector systems - Serge Charlebois (Université de Sherbrooke)

15:26 First Application of Photon-to-Digital Counters to Particle Physics - Brais Palmeiro Pazos (University of Manchester)

15:44 Advanced Single Photon Detectors by 3D-Integration of ultra-low noise SPADs - Peter vom Stein (Fraunhofer IMS)
16:00 Tea Break
Tea Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Auditorium Enzo Biagi
16:30
16:30 - 17:30
Room: Auditorium Enzo Biagi
Contributions

16:30 CMOS SPADs and digital single-photon imaging sensors - Edoardo Charbon

16:55 When will digital SiPMs become available for physics?
17:30

17:30 - 19:00
Room: Auditorium Enzo Biagi

19:00

19:00 - 20:30
Room: Auditorium Enzo Biagi

Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception
19:00 - 20:30
Room: Auditorium Enzo Biagi
Thursday 4 December 2025
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Auditorium Enzo Biagi
Contributions

08:30 Microlense enhanced SiPMs - Guido Haefeli (EPFL)

08:48 Innovative Back-Side Illuminated SiPMs (BSI-SiPMs): first results from the IBIS project - Priyanka Kachru (FBK)

09:06 Development of UV-Sensitive GaN Single Photon Geiger-Mode avalanche diodes - Nepomuk Otte (Georgia Institute of Technology)

09:24 A Digital SiPM for Photon Multiplicity Measurement operated with a Compact USB Readout - Peter Fischer (Heidelberg University)

09:42 Time resolution and efficiency of SPADs and SiPMs - Werner Riegler (CERN)

10:07 Enabling photon detection: the role of ASICs - Angelo Rivetti (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Auditorium Enzo Biagi
11:00
11:00 - 12:45
Room: Auditorium Enzo Biagi
Contributions

11:00 ALCOR, a mixed-signal ASIC for SiPM readout of the ePIC-dRICH detector at the EIC - Fabio Cossio (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

11:18 A first photon detector module based on the FastRICH ASIC - Floris Keizer (CERN)

11:36 FastIC+ ASIC, a high-performance scalable solution for fast-timing applications - Daniel Guberman (Insitut de Ciencies del Cosmos, Universitat de Barcelona (ICCUB))

11:54 Photodetectors in medical applications - Dennis Schaart (Delft University of Technology)

12:19 High-Performance Planar TOF-PET Imager - Rok Pestotnik
12:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 - 14:00
Room: Auditorium Enzo Biagi
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Auditorium Enzo Biagi
Contributions

14:00 Wearable, Lightweight, and Flexible Dosimeters for Real-Time Monitoring - Andrea Ciavatti

14:18 Advances in MCP-PMTs: performance, challenges and beyond - Albert Lehmann (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

14:43 The prototype of MCP-PMT with a novel photocathode design - Mikhail Barnyakov (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

15:01 Preparation status of the Hyper-Kamiokande 50 cm photomultiplier tubes - Kota Nakagiri (Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, The University of Tokyo)

15:19 Mechanism for reduction of the afterpulsing rate of PMTs - Kai Morita (ICRR, U. Tokyo)

15:37 PICMIC concept - Imad Laktineh (ipnl)
16:00 Tea Break
Tea Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Auditorium Enzo Biagi
16:30
16:30 - 18:45
Room: Auditorium Enzo Biagi
Contributions

16:30 Comprehensive characterization of LAPPD and HRPPD photodetectors - Mikhail Osipenko (GE)

16:48 Systematic evaluation of series-produced Microchannel-Plate PMTs - Katja Gumbert

17:06 Simulation and characterisation of a 16-by-96 multi-anode MCP-PMT - Alexander Davidson (University of Warwick)

17:24 Understanding the timing and charge sharing in MCP PMTs - Samo Korpar (University of Maribor)

17:42 Precision timing with photon detectors - Jon Lapington (University of Leicester)

18:07 Precision timing with the CMS Barrel Timing Layer - Martina Malberti (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

18:25 Direct charged particle detection with SiPMs for the ALICE 3 timing layer - Francesca Carnesecchi
20:00 Social Dinner
Social Dinner
20:00 - 22:30
Friday 5 December 2025
08:30
08:30 - 10:15
Room: Auditorium Enzo Biagi
Contributions

08:30 Light detection in dark matter and neutrino detectors - Gianfranca De Rosa (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

08:55 PLATON: high-resolution 3D photographs of particles interacting in a monolithic scintillating volume - Till Dieminger (ETH Zurich)

09:13 Overview of the TAO photo-detector and recent progress - Hanwen Wang (Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP))

09:31 Gaseous photon detectors: applications and perspectives - Florian Brunbauer (CERN)

09:56 The CYGNO experiment: a gaseous TPC with optical readout for rare events searches - Fabrizio Petrucci (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
10:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:15 - 10:45
Room: Auditorium Enzo Biagi
10:45
10:45 - 12:45
Room: Auditorium Enzo Biagi
Contributions

10:45 The focal plane cameras of the ASTRI Mini-Array air-Cherenkov telescopes for gamma ray astronomy - Giuseppe Sottile

11:03 Pushing the Frontiers of Space UV Detection: The SiSMUV project - Marco Mese (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

11:21 Photon Detectors at Cryogenic temperatures - Inés Gil-Botella (CIEMAT)

11:46 Production and Characterisation of SiPM-Based Photo Detection Units for the DarkSide-20k Experiment - Dmitrii Rudik (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

12:04 The DUNE Far Detector Photon Detection System - Anna Balboni (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

12:22 A New Window into Noble Elements: VUV-Sensitive Amorphous Selenium Photodetectors for Cryogenic Applications - Elena Gramellini (University of Manchester)
12:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 - 14:00
Room: Auditorium Enzo Biagi
14:00
14:00 - 16:30
Room: Auditorium Enzo Biagi
Contributions

14:00 LiquidO: A Revolutionary Approach to Particle Imaging and Detection Exploiting Opaqueness. - Stefano Dusini (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

14:18 Quantum technologies for photon detectors - Boris Korzh (University of Geneva)

14:43 Development of drop-cast PbS QD detectors – from X-ray photoresistors to proton detection - Marco Ruggieri (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

15:01 Perovskite single-photon counting detectors - Paul Sellin (University of Surrey)

15:26 Development of Inorganic perovskite thin-film photo-detectors - Mara Bruzzi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

15:44 Vapor-processed Perovskite Thin-Film Photodetectors - Michele Sessolo (University of Valencia)

16:02 Solution-processed Mn-doped 2D perovskite wavelength shifters for noble-liquid photon detection - Elisabetta Colantoni (DIFA-UNIBO)
16:30
16:30 - 17:00
Room: Auditorium Enzo Biagi
Contributions

16:30 Awards Ceremony

16:35 A word from the DRD4 Collaboration Spokesperson - Massimiliano Fiorini (INFN and University of Ferrara)

16:45 A word from the International Advisory Committee Chairperson - Fabrice Retiere (TRIUMF)

16:55 Future Workshops and Farewell - Roberto Preghenella (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
17:30 Visit to INFN Laboratories
Visit to INFN Laboratories
17:30 - 18:30
Room: INFN Laboratories

18:30 Aperitivo at INFN Laboratories
Aperitivo at INFN Laboratories
18:30 - 19:30
Room: INFN Laboratories
Saturday 6 December 2025

10:30 Guided City Tour Excursion
Guided City Tour Excursion
10:30 - 12:00

14:30 Satellite event: "da dove vengono i colori?"
Satellite event: "da dove vengono i colori?"
14:30 - 18:30
Room: Sala delle Conferenze