LIGHT 11

31 Oct 2011, 13:00 → 4 Nov 2011, 14:00 Europe/Berlin

Ringberg Castle

Eckart Lorenz (MPI for Physics), Razmik Mirzoyan (MPI for Physics)

Monday, 31 October

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:10 Welcome

14:10 → 19:30 Vacuum Photo Sensors

14:10 Introduction to the LIGHT Workshop

Photo Sensors in our Life

Speakers: Eckart Lorenz (MPI for Physics), Razmik Mirzoyan (MPI for Physics)

14:30 Hybrid Photo Diodes

Speaker: Thomas Schweizer (MPI for Physics)

Slides HPD_Light2011_Thomas.pdf

15:00 How Many Electrons do Photons Generate in a Photocathode?

Speaker: Jon Howorth (Photek Ltd.)

Slides CAN_A_PHOTON_GENERATE_MORE_THAN_ONE_ELECTRON.pdf

15:30 Coffee

16:00 Extensive Studies of Bright LEDs and Light Sources Based on them

Speaker: Bayarto Lubsandorzhiev (Institute for Nuclear Research)

Slides lbk_led_light2011.pdf

16:30 MELZ PMTs

Speaker: Serguey Belyanchenkov (MELZ-FEU)

Slides ДОКЛ.АНГЛ..pdf

17:00 Fast Afterpulses and Encapsulation of the LENA PMTs

Speaker: Marc Tippmann (Technical University of Munich)

Slides Light11_-_PMT_encapsulations_and_Fast_Afterpulse_Identification_-_Tippmann.pdf

17:30 Discussion: What One Can Improve in PMTs

Moderator: Razmik Mirzoyan

Speaker: All

Slides Mirzoyan-Hamamatsu-1-inch-PMT-statistics.pdf

18:30 Dinner

Tuesday, 1 November

09:30 → 12:30 New PMT Developments -1-

09:30 Recent Progress in Vacuum Photon Detectors at Hamamatsu / EDT

Speaker: Yuji Yoshizawa (Hamamatsu K.K.)

Slides LIGHT2011_Presentation_111101.pdf

10:00 Visualization of Structure and Composition During Photocathode Composition

Speaker: Klaus Attenkofer (University of Chicago)

Slides cathodes_AK_2011.pdf

10:30 Coffee

11:00 Large Size MCP-Based Sensors with Ultra-fast Timing

Speaker: Henry Frisch (University of Chicago)

Slides Light11_v10_Frisch.pdf

11:30 The Abalone Spring-Concept, Prototype, Commercialization

Speaker: Daniel Ferenc (UC Davis)

Slides Daniel_Ferenc_Ringberg-s.pdf

12:00 Advances in Microchannel Plates for Sealed Tube Detectors

Speaker: Oswald Siegmund (University of Chicago)

Slides Siegmund.LIGHT-s.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 17:00 New PMT Developments -2-

14:00 Discussion: GaN Photocathodes for Sealed Tube MCP Detectors and a Few Other Developments

Speaker: Moderator: Oswald Siegmund

Slides Siegmund.LIGHT2.pdf

14:30 Light Sensors for CTA and Light Emission Studies of PMT and SiPM

Speaker: Max Knötig (MPI for Physics)

Slides knoetig_light11-s.pdf

15:00 Large Area Phototubes for Next Generation Large Scale Astroparticle Physics Experiments

Speaker: Bayarto Lubsandorzhiev (Institute for Nuclear Research)

Slides light2011_large_area_pmt_1.pdf

15:30 Coffee

16:00 Photomultiplier development at ET Enterprises and ADIT Electron Tubes

Speaker: Andy Cormack (ET Enterprises Ltd.)

Slides ET_Enterprises_Limited_Light11.pdf

16:30 Development of a Lower Cost Large Area MCP Photodetector

Speaker: Bob Wagner (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides Light11_LAPD_Talk_20111101_v5.pdf

17:00 → 18:30 ASPERA

ASPERA and the LLL Photo-Sensor Development Program

18:30 → 20:00 Dinner

Wednesday, 2 November

09:30 → 12:30 SiPM (MPPC, GAPD, ........)

Hommage to Boris Dolgoshein

09:30 Boris Dolgoshein as Scientist, Leader, Pioneer and Senior Friend

Speaker: Alexander Vaniachine (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides dolgoshein-s.pdf

10:00 Boris Dolgoshein, One of the Pioneers of SiPM

Speaker: Razmik Mirzoyan (MPI for Physics)

Slides Boris-Mirzoyan-Ringberg-2-Nov-11.pdf

10:30 Coffee

11:00 SiPM from EXCELITAS

Speaker: Arthur Barlow (EXCELITAS Technologies)

Slides light_11_sipm_excelitas.pdf

11:30 The Status of the Digital Silicon Photomultiplier Development

Speaker: Thomas Frach (Philips Digital Photon Counting)

Slides LIGHT_2011_Frach-s.pdf

12:00 HLL SiMPL

Speaker: Jelena Ninkovic (MPI for Physics)

Slides NinkovicLight2011.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:30 FACT

Speaker: Werner Lustermann (CERN)

Slides FACT-Light-2011-c.pdf

15:00 → 21:30 Excursion

Visit to a Bavarian Beer Brewery

Thursday, 3 November

09:30 → 12:30 New Detectors, Measurements and Auxiliary -1-

09:30 Readout Electronics for SiPM Arrays Used for Nuclear Medical Imaging

Speaker: William Moses (LBNL)

Slides Moses_PET_Electronics-s.pdf

10:00 A New Si-CNT Large Area Photo-Detector

Speaker: Michelangelo Ambrosio (INFN Napoli)

Slides LIGHT11_Ambrosio-s.pdf

10:30 Coffee

11:00 Cryogenic Light Detectors

Speaker: Patrick Huff (MPI for Physics)

Slides Light11-Huff.pdf

11:30 Timing and Low Temperature Properties of SiPMs

Speaker: Gianmaria Collazuol (University of Padua)

Slides light11_-_collazuol-s.pdf

12:00 New MPPC Developments by Hamamatsu

Speaker: Olga Stroh-Vasenev (Hamamatsu Photonics Deutschland)

Slides MPPC(LIGHT2011).pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 18:00 New Detectors, Measurements and Auxiliary -2-

14:00 Recent Experiments and Modelling of Diamond Dynode PMTs

Speaker: Jon Howorth (Photek Ltd.)

Slides Recent_Experiments_and_Modelling_of_Diamond_Dynodes.pdf

14:30 3'PMTs for KM3NeT

Speaker: Oleg Kalyekin (University of Erlangen)

Slides Kalekin_Light11_KM3NeT_PMTs.pdf

15:00 Highly Reflective Film

Speaker: Eckart Lorenz (MPI for Physics)

Slides High_reflective_foils.pdf

15:30 Coffee

16:00 Is Spectralon, the Highest Diffuse Reflectivity Material, a Lambertian Scatterer?

Speaker: Hanna Kellermann (MPI for Physics)

Slides spectralon_hkellermann-s..pdf

16:15 Absolute Measurements of Light Focused by a Reflector into its Focal Plane

Speaker: Hanna Kellermann (MPI for Physics)

Slides light11_hkellermann_4.pdf

16:30 Use of HPD in a Micro-LIDAR

Speaker: Christian Fruck (MPI for Physics)

Slides FRUCK_2011_11_Ringberg-s.pdf

16:45 Cross Talk, Afterpulses and Photon Detection Efficiency of SiPMs

Speaker: Adam Para (Fermi Lab)

Slides para_LIGHT2011_SiPM.pdf

17:15 Discussion: Quo Vadis?

Speaker: All

Friday, 4 November

09:30 → 10:00 Wishlist Vacuum Detectors

10:00 → 10:30 Wishlist SiPM

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 11:30 Discussion: Wild Visions

11:30 → 12:30 Summary Discussion

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:00 Departure Shuttle Bus to Munich