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Scintillating crystals: a new window in medical imaging
For science fiction fans antimatter is the high energy fuel that accelerates spaceships faster than the speed of light. In the real world however it has more down to Earth yet extremely useful applications, mainly in the medical field. Positrons are…
Read moreSPS shutdown sends test beam research to DESY
Last week, four members of the CERN LCD group traveled to DESY, Hamburg, to test data acquisition methods for a Timepix pixel detector. It's unusual for CERN groups to have to travel to perform a test beam, but with the PS and SPS out of action for…
Read moreThe RD51 Collaboration: Development of Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors Technologies
Advances in photo-lithography and micro processing techniques during the past decade triggered a major transition from wire chambers to micro-pattern gas amplification devices such as GEM and MicroMegas. Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors offer…
Read morePH-DT activities in 2012
The PH Detector Technology (DT) group is a central part of the CERN Physics Department. DT comprises about 75 staff members, ~30 fellows and students and a FSU team of 14 people. The group makes major contributions to the development, construction,…
Read moreRD50 and RD51 research projects on silicon and gaseous detector developments
Common Research and Development consortia provide CERN and CERN member institutions with many benefits. For many detector developments significant R&D is needed in order to bring new detector concepts to a state where they are mature enough to…
Read moreThe RD50 Collaboration - Radiation tolerant silicon detectors
In 2001 the RD50 Collaboration “Radiation hard semiconductor devices for high luminosity colliders” was formed in view of the first luminosity upgrade scenarios for the LHC. It was obvious that the LHC tracking detectors would not survive the…
Read moreThe new proton & mixed-field Irradiation facility at CERN PS
Irradiation is the process by which an object is exposed to radiation. Although this term is fairly generic, the performing of irradiation experiments has a very important meaning for the PH department. In fact, the PH department is deeply involved…
Read moreThe RICH detector of the NA62 experiment
The NA62 experiment is focused on precision tests of the Standard Model by studies of rare decays of charged kaons since only for few kaon decays there is a precise theoretical prediction. One of these exceptions is the very rare decay K+→…
Read moreThe PH Detector Technology (PH DT) group
PH‐DT is one of the three technical support groups in the physics department. Our main mandate is to develop, construct, operate and maintain detectors components for physics experiments at CERN. Our competencies span over a very wide…
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