Fermilab

Research Techniques Seminar

These seminars cover technical topics of interest to experimentalists. Topics include detector R&D, construction and calibration methods, test beam results, as well as data analysis methods and simulation. Please send suggestions for topics and speakers to Javier Tiffenberg (javiert [at] fnal.gov). View the Indico area for this seminar series.

DATE
SPEAKER
SLIDES

2024

Mar 22, 2024
Alessandro Marras
Detector Developments at DESY Photon Science Detector Group | Indico page
Mar 04, 2024
Koji Nakamura
Development of tracking detector with capability of precise time and spatial resolution for future collider experiments | Indico page

2023

Oct 04, 2023
Jennifer Hasler
Energy Efficient and Robust Analog Computation | Indico page
Sep 25, 2023
Bernard Rauscher & Emily Kan
Skipper CCDs in Space for NASA Science | Indico page
Apr 10, 2023
Sebastian White
Overview of recent PICOSEC Micromegas Developments for Precision Timing | Indico page
Mar 06, 2023
Bob Hirosky
Dual-Readout Calorimetry | Indico page
Mar 06, 2023
Piero Giubilato
Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors | Indico page
Mar 02, 2023
Miguel Sofo Haro
Development of new CCDs with non-destructive readout mode | Indico page
Feb 24, 2023
Pratyush Patel
Progress towards sub-keV Nuclear Recoil calibration | Indico page

2022

CANCELED
Jonathan Asaadi
TBA | Indico page
Oct 28, 2022
Masato Kimura
Search for light dark matter with the DarkSide program | Indico page
Oct 21, 2022
Agustina Magnoni
Single-photons and twin-beams: the role of photonics in the second quantum revolution | Indico page
Aug 05, 2022
Mohamed Awida Hassanl
Development of Iris-Connected Multicell Cavities for Axion Searches | Indico page
May 27, 2022
Eric Dahl
Liquid-noble (scintillating) bubble chambers for CEvNS and low-mass dark matter | Indico page
Apr 15, 2022
Stefan Knirck
BREAD: Broadband Reflector Experiment for Axion Detection | Indico page

2021

Jan 29, 2021
Christian Schmiegelow
Experimental techniques behind the scenes of ion trapping experiments: status, challenges and developments | Indico page

2020

Nov 06, 2020
Kelly Stifter
Instrumental backgrounds in the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter detector | Indico page
Oct 23, 2020
Andrei Nomerotski
Imaging and time-stamping optical photons with nanosecond resolution for QIS applications | Indico page
Mar 06, 2020
Dario Rodrigues
Skipper-CCD boldly goes where no one has gone before | Indico page

2019

Dec 06, 2019
Lorenzo Paolozzi
Design of SiGe BiCMOS monolithic pixel sensors with picosecond-level time resolution | Indico page
Nov 15, 2019
Guillermo Fernandez Moroni, Eduardo Paolini
Development of a high-accuracy quantized-current source with a Skipper-CCD for the recent redefinition of ampere | Indico page
Nov 05, 2019
Jonathan Asaadi
QPix: Achieving kiloton scale pixelated readout for LAr TPCs | Indico page
Sep 19, 2019
Steven B. Estrella
High-Speed Silicon Photonic Optical Interconnects for Harsh Environments | Indico page
Sep 10, 2019
Ana Martina Botti
The Pierre Auger Observatory: upgrade and prospects in the EeV region | Indico page
Jun 11, 2019
Corrado Gatto
The REDTOP experiment: Rare Eta Decays with a TPC for Optical Photons | Indico page
Apr 25, 2019
Nicolo Cartiglia
Tracking particles in space and time. | Indico page
Apr 24, 2019
Kin Chung Fong
Wide bandwidth graphene-based single photon detector. | Indico page
Mar 26, 2019
Juan Collar
Coherent neutrino scattering: new detectors, and new opportunities. | Indico page
Mar 19, 2019
Mark Popecki
The Large Area Picosecond Photodetector (LAPPD) 8” MCP-PMT: Recent Results. | Indico page
Jan 22, 2019
Christopher Sheehy
21-cm cosmology after 202. Indico page

2018

Gary Varner
ASICs for picosecond timing and toward femtosecond timing
Nov 20, 2018
Alberto Belloni
Radiation effects on plastic scintillators for current and future HEP experiments
Oct 23, 2018
Michalis Bachtis
Implementation of a Kalman filter in FPGAs for the upgrade of the CMS barrel muon trigger in Run III and HL-LHC
Oct 16, 2018
Alex Lumpkin
First x-ray phase contrast imaging with an 88-mm diameter single crystal
Sep 25, 2018
Igor Kreslo
ArgonCube: Modular scalable LarTPC with pixelized charge readout
Sep 14, 2018
Gideon Robertson
Novel focal-plane array development and the Ultrafast X-ray Imager program
Jul 24, 2018
Zhong He
3-Dimensional Position-Sensitive CdZnTe Gamma-Ray Imaging Spectrometers
Jun 19, 2018
Chris Leitz
Development of Germanium Charge-Coupled Devices
Jun 12, 2018
Stuart Kleinfelder
Engineering Ultra High Energy Neutrino Detectors in Antarctica
May 22, 2018
Jerry Vavra
Development of focusing DIRC detectors
May 8, 2018
Andrew Cleland
Superconducting qubits: Nuts and Bolts
Apr 24, 2018
Javier Duarte
Fast inference of deep neural networks in FPGAs for particle physics
Apr 18, 2018
Piotr Maj
High speed X-ray detection for timing correlation spectroscopy type experiments
Mar 6, 2018
Werner Riegler
Challenges for particle detectors at future circular colliders
Feb 27, 2018
Ryan Heller
The milliQan Experiment at the LHC
Feb 13, 2018
Silvia Dalla Torre
Status and perspectives of Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors and the dedicated RD51 Collaboration
Feb 9, 2018
Edoardo Charbon
Design of large area, pixelated ASICs for pico-second timing applications

2017

Dec 7, 2017
Renyuan Zhu
Recent progress on fast inorganic scintillators for future HEP experiments
Nov 28, 2017
Andrey Elagin
LAPPDs – Large-area Picosecond Photo Detectors
Nov 21, 2017
Shinhong Kim
COBAND Experiment – Continuous spectral measurement in far-infrared region using STJ
Jul 18, 2017
Chris Tully
Graphene FET particle detectors for directional detection of MeV Dark Matter
Jul 6, 2017
Makoto Motoyoshi (Tohoku-MicroTec)
3D-IC technology trends and current development status for stacked pixel detectors
Jun 20, 2017
Gabriella Carini
Detector challenges for LCLS-II
Jun 16, 2017
Markus Schloesser
The European XFEL – Alignment work and geodetic control network adjustment
Mar 7, 2017
Javier Tiffenberg
The SENSEI Project
Feb 8, 2017
Igor Pastirk, Chuck McFee (SYDOR)
SYDOR Technologies, complex measurements, critical results

2016

Aug 23, 2016
Andrea Gonzalez-Montoro
PET Developments at i3M
Aug 12, 2016
Massimiliano Fiorini
Fast-timing Tracking Detector for High Pile-up Conditions in Particle Physics Experiments
Aug 11, 2016
Yuji Takeuchi
The COBAND project for the search for cosmic background neutrino decay
Apr 26, 2016
Maxim Titov
Micro-Pattern Gas Detector Technologies for Physics Projects at the Energy, Intensity and Cosmic Frontiers

2015

Nov 15, 2015
David Schuster
Manipulating single photons with superconducting resonators; Quantum computing with superconducting circuits
Nov 3, 2015
Sebastian White
Fast timing detector R&D for the HL-LHC era
Oct 13, 2015
Mike Albrow
A spectrometer for multi-TeV forward particles at the LHC
Sep 22, 2015
Warren Schappert
Detecting gravitational waves in superconducting cavities
Jul 28, 2015
Wojtek Skulski
High performance data acquisition system for underground dark matter searches
May 20, 2015
Keith Barnham
Progress towards an all-renewable power supply
Apr 14, 2015
Alexandra Junkes
Towards silicon pixel sensors for the HL-LHC
Apr 3, 2015
John Murphy
SensLsilicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) – Technology, applications and new developments
Mar 17, 2015
Anatoly Ronzhin
Study of the timing performance of micro channel plates in a new type of shower maximum detector
Feb 4, 2015
Andrzej Drukier
A new class of weakly interacting particle detectors: nano-explosive detectors

2014

Nov 18, 2014
Jose Repond
CALICE: Calorimetry reinvented
Sep 23, 2014
Peter Shirron
Adiabatic demagnetization refrigerators for cooling low-temperature detectors in space
Aug 14, 2014
Daniel Holck
CHOUGH, the Canary hosted upgrade for high-order adaptive optics
Aug 5, 2014
Kim Siang Khaw
Towards next generation fundamental precision measurements with muons
May 13, 2014
Diego Tonelli
A specialized processor for track reconstruction at the LHC crossing rate
Apr 29, 2014
Ben Mazin
Microwave kinetic inductance detectors for UVOIR astronomy
Mar 25, 2014
Anatoly Ronzhin
Development of a new fast shower maximum detector based on micro channel plates as an active element
Feb 18, 2014
Jonghee Yoo
R&D for a solid Xenon detector
Feb 4, 2014
Serge Oktyabrsky
Picosecond photodetectors: What can we adopt from the modern III-V semiconductor technologies?
Jan 8, 2014
Gino Bolla
The present CMS tracker and its future prospects

2013

Dec 18, 2013
Pavel Murat
The Mu2e calorimeter
Dec 3, 2013
Roger Rusack
The upgrade of the forward calorimeter of CMS for the HL-LHC
Nov 15, 2013
Ray Yarema
3D ASIC program at Fermilab: recent results for 3D pixels
Nov 15, 2013
Ron Lipton
3D circuit design in High Energy Physics
Nov 15, 2013
Ted Liu
3D architectures for triggering and pattern recognition
Nov 15, 2013
Bob Patti
Tezzaron: Evolution of 2.5D and 3D technologies and capabilities
Nov 15, 2013
Bob Bradford
Argonne Nat. Lab: Use of 3D ASICs in X-Ray science
Nov 15, 2013
Gregory Deptuch
Discussion – Fermilab’s 3D future
Sep 30, 2013
Kevin Hickerson
Ultracold Neutrons
Sep 10, 2013
Dan Levin
Plasma panel detectors for ionizing particles
Aug 28, 2013
Kieran O’Brien
Microwave kinetic inductance detectors for optical and near-IR astronomy
Aug 2, 2013
Takaki Hatsui
SOI pixel sensor process: Lessons learned from the development of SOPHIAS, a sensor for X-Ray free-electron laser experiments
Jul 9, 2013
Zhehui Wang
GHz hard X-Ray imaging: challenges in efficiency, timing and rates
Jun 11, 2013
Bruce Baller
Columnar recombination in the ArgoNeut LArTPC
May 21, 2013
Alexander Bolozdynya
Development of RED100 liquid Xenon emission detector for observation of coherent neutrino scattering
Mar 12, 2013
Clarence Chang
Superconducting technology and measuring the cosmic neutrino background
Feb 19, 2013
Shawn Henderson
Surface commissioning of the DMTPC 4-Shooter directional dark matter detector prototype
Feb 12, 2013
Ian Lawson
Low background counting techniques at SNOLAB

2012

Nov 20, 2012
Erik Ramberg
Fundamentals of global climate change science
Oct 16, 2012
Mykhaylo Filipenko
Tracking and Barium tagging: The chance to achieve a background-free neutrinoless double-Beta decay experiment?
Oct 2, 2012
Stan Majewski
Particle physics contribution to dedicated innovative brain PET imagers
Aug 21, 2012
Roger Rusack
What type of forward detector for CMS at HL-LHC?
Jun 17, 2012
Dirk Wiedner
A novel experiment searching for the lepton flavor violating decay mu to eee
May 15, 2012
Ben Mazin
SuperMOS: A new class of low resolution multiobject spectrographs
May 11, 2012
Massimo Mazzillo
Technology development at STMicroelectronics
May 1, 2012
Lindley Winslow
ReNolution? Neutrinos and nanotechnology
Apr 24, 2012
Antonio Miceli
Microwave kinetic inductance detectors for X-Ray science
Apr 12, 2012
George Williams
Technology development at Voxtel, Inc.
Mar 13, 2012
Francois Vasey
Prospects for future high speed interconnects and applications in High Energy Physics
Jan 18, 2012
David Nygren
“NEXT” and simultaneous searches for neutrinoless double-Beta decay and WIMP dark matter at the Ton-scale with a Xe gas electroluminescent TPC

2011

Nov 11, 2011
Richard Wigmans
DREAM – Towards high resolution jet spectroscopy
Sep 6, 2011
Wojtek Skulski
Searching for Dark Matter using a digital trigger
Aug 23, 2011
Corrado Gatto
Dual readout calorimetry with heavy glasses in the T1015 Collaboration
Aug 9, 2011
Rao, Rani
Detector Development at Bharat Electronics
Jul 19, 2011
Gustavo Cancelo, Juan Estrada
Advances in CCD applications with sub-electron noise techniques
Jul 15, 2011
Andrei Nomerotski
Pixel imaging mass spectroscopy
Jun 20, 2011
Sunil Golwala
Applications of Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors for cosmology
Jun 8, 2011
Yinan Yu
RArm locking for LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
May 2, 2011
Shashank Priya
High performance textured relaxor-PT/PZT piezoelectric materials
Apr 26, 2011
Michelle Stancari
Aging and radiation damage in the CDF Run-II silicon detector
Feb 15, 2011
Kyung Kwang Joo
Status of the RENO reactor neutrino experiment
Jan 26, 2011
Claudio Piemonte
Silicon photo multiplier technology at FPK

2010

Dec 2, 2010
Guido Magazzu
FF-LYNX: Protocol and IP-Cores for integrated control and readout in future HEP experiments
Nov 8, 2010
Francesca Nessi-Tedaldi
An overview of results on scintillating crystals exposed to high hadron fluences
Oct 28, 2010
Andrey Vasilev
Scintillators for new HEP calorimeters: What properties are not well understood?
Oct 5, 2010
Ping Gui
Gigabits optical data links in CMOS technology
Sep 28, 2010
Albert Young
Neutron-Antineutron oscillation measurements using cold and ultracold neutrons
Sep 14, 2010
Gustavo Cancelo
Sub electron noise readout for scientific CCDs
Jul 20, 2010
Andrey Sviridov
Radiation-tolerant fast electronics and detectors and portable neutron generators
Apr 13, 2010
Satish Dhawan
How to deliver oodles of current to HEP detectors in high radiation and magnetic fields?
Jan 20, 2010
John Thome
Two-phase cooling of targets and electronics for particle physics experiments

2009

Dec 15, 2009
Jean-Francois Genat
Sampling front-ends ASICs in CMOS technology for pico-second timing with Micro-Channel Plate devices
Dec 1, 2009
Maxim Titov
The RD51 Collaboration – Development of Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors technologies
Nov 2, 2009
Juha Kalliopuska, VTT
Edgeless detectors for high energy physics applications
Oct 23, 2009
Alexander Gektin
New generation of HEP scintillator: search and development criteria
Oct 21, 2009
Thor-Erik Hansen
Development and fabrication of full 3D-sensors at SINTEF MiNaLab
Jul 28, 2009
Jeff Martoff
Liquid Argon for Dark Matter detectors
Jul 7, 2009
Maurice Garcia-Sciveres
ATLAS upgrades for high luminosity
Jun 9, 2009
John Cressler
Silicon-Germanium as an enabling technology for extreme environment electronics
May 4, 2009
David Nygren
Xenon gas TPCs for neutrinoless double beta decay and WIMP searches: Recent developments and prospects
Mar 10, 2009
James Beletic
Imaging sensor technologies for astronomy, planetary exploration and Earth observation

2008

Oct 31, 2008
Harry van der Graaf
GridPix/Gossip
Oct 2, 2008
Nicoleta Dinu
Electro-optical characterization of SiPM detectors
Sep 4, 2008
Razmick Mirzoyan
The cross-talk problem in SiPMs and their use as light sensors in multichannel imaging cameras
May 20, 2008
Ben McMorran
Matter wave interferometry with poorly collimated beams
Feb 26, 2008
Stefan Ritt
Tackling the search for Lepton Flavor Violation with GHz waveform digitizing using the DRS chip

2007

Nov 8, 2007
Adam Para
First look at the Hamamatsu MPPC
Oct 1, 2007
Themis Bowcock
The LHCb Vertex Detector
Aug 9, 2007
Aldo Penzo
Compensating Hadron Calorimetry
Jul 24, 2007
A. Nepomuk Otte
The Geiger-APD: a novel photon detector and its application in astrophysics experiments and position emission tomography
Jun 14, 2007
James Hamilton
Diamonds in Washington and Volcanic Dust in Hawaii: Optical surface studies using first contact polymers
May 14, 2007
Giorgio Giacomelli
Magnetic Monopole Searches
Mar 12, 2007
Max Goncharov
Calorimeter timing system at CDF
Mar 6, 2007
Dawei Zheng
Kotura, Silicon Photonic technology and capabilities
Feb 27, 2007
Howard Wieman
A high resolution vertex detector for the STAR experiment at RHIC
Feb 22, 2007
Alessandro Curioni
Experimental study of neutrino interactions on Ar with a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber
Feb 12, 2007
Carl Jackson, Kieran Flynn
Low light sensing with silicon photomultipliers

2006

Oct 31, 2006
Philippe Gorodetzky
Precise absolute calibration of a PMT in a single photoelectron mode
Oct 25, 2006
Claudio Piemonte, Nicoleta Dinu
Development of silicon photomultipliers at ITC-irst, Measurement of the photodetection efficiency of SiPMs at ITC-irst
Sep 25, 2006
Frank Gaede
Simulation and reconstruction software for the ILC
Jul 17, 2006
Marcel Trimpl
DEPFET Pixels for the ILC Vertex Detector
Jun 6, 2006
Hans-Guenther Moser
The DEPFET active pixel sensor as vertex detector for the ILC
May 4, 2006
Valerie Saveliev
Monolithic active pixel sensors for not visible light applications: Advantages and limitations

2005

Nov 30, 2005
Wlodek Guryn
Results from the PP2PP Experiment at RHIC and future plans
Nov 9, 2005
Vasile Buzuloiu
Research in signal processing at LAPI
Aug 10, 2005
Steve Worm
LCFI: Pixels for the ILC
Jul 27, 2005
Malcolm Ellis
A Scintillating Fibre Tracker for MICE
Jul 13, 2005
Henry Frisch, Harold Sanders
Pico-Second Time-of-Flight Detector, Electronics development
Jun 1, 2005
Tom Shutt
The XENON Dark Matter Experiment
Apr 13, 2005
Jonathan Link
Searching for Reactor Neutrino Oscillations at Braidwood
Mar 10, 2005
David Reyna
Double-CHOOZ: A new experiment to measure theta_13
Jan 11, 2005
Takahiro Matsumoto
Particle ID at Belle: Present status and upgrade plans

2004

Nov 18, 2004
Mike Ronan
Micromegas TPC R&D for the ILC
Jul 7, 2004
Silvia Schuh
High precision x-ray tomography in quality control for the ATLAS muon spectrometer
May 19, 2004
Jun Miyamoto
Micro patterned gas detectors

2003

Oct 15, 2003
Jim Freeman
Highlights of the Erice Workshop on innovative detectors for supercoliders
Aug 19, 2003
Reiner Klingenberg
Design, status and progress of the ATLAS pixel detector
May 27, 2003
Nicoleta Dinu
Electrical characterization of silicon micro-strip sensors