Astroparticle, particle and space physics, detectors and medical physics applications proceedings of the 9th Conference : Villa Olmo, Como, Italy, 17-21 October 2005 (World Scientific, 2006)
Includes bibliographical references
Advanced, miniaturized detectors and particle identification. A novel micromegas detector for in-core nuclear reactor neutron flux measurements. The ALICE TPC. The ATLAS RPC test stands. Performances in high magnetic fields of fine-mesh photomultipliers for fast time-of-flight detectors. Recent results on GridPix detectors: an integrated micromegas ageing test. RICH detector at Jefferson lab, design, performance and physics results. Hybrid-photon-detectors in the LHCb RICH system. Development of a fast transition radiation and tracking detector for CBM at FAIR. R & D on a detector for very high momentum charged hadron identification in ALICE. The design and test of the ATLAS diamond beam conditions monitor. The AMS02 Transition Radiation Detector (TRD)- a gasfilled detector for the International Space Station. A new automatic microscope for high speed analysis of nuclear emulsions. A novel type of proximity focusing RICH counter with multiple refractive index aerogel radiator.
- A subminiature scintillation detector for catheter operation. Analysis of test-beam data from a prototype LHCb RICH detector. Single crystal CVD diamond detectors for hadron physics. Improvement of particle identification by energy loss in a stack of silicon detectors. Studies for a fast RICH. Properties of scintillator strip with wavelength shifting fiber and silicon phoromultiplier --
- Astroparticle experiments. The underground Baradello Laboratory: characterization of the site and early results on gamma-ray and neutron spectrometry measurements. The art of detecting Neutrinos, 2 km underground-the three phases of the sudbury neutrino observatory. Neutrino physics at the South Pole- recent results from the AMANDA experiment. First results from GLAST-LAT integrated towers cosmic ray data taking and Montecarlo comparison. Background analysis of Cuoricino in view of the future experiment CUORE. Application of nuclear track detectors in astroparticle and nuclear physics. Recent DAMA results. Double beta decay measurement with COBRA. Ultraviolet diamond photodetector. Status of the KATRIN experiment. The RPC system for the OPERA spectrometers. Electromagnetic shower reconstruction in emulsion cloud chamber. A low background micromegas detector for the CAST experiment. Imaging optical adapters for multi-anode photo multipliers detectors.
- A 2D stochatsic Montecarlo for the solar modulation of GCR: a procedure to fit interplanetary parameters comparing to the experimental data. Spatial distribution of energetic heavy ions near the earth. A photon tag calibration beam for the AGILE satellite. Observation program of isotope composition in the ultra heavy cosmic rays. High-energy cosmic rays investigated by air-shower measurements with KASCADE, KASCADE-Grande, and LOPES. Scintillating optical fibers for astroparticle physics. The T2K experiment: status and instrumentation of the 280m near detector. Results and status of the PICASSO experiment. Data acquisition system and trigger electronics for CACTUS. The central pixel of the MAGIC telescope for optical observations. Status report of ARDM project: a new direct detection experiment, based on liquid argon, for the search of dark matter. Development of Multiple Photon Counting Coincidence (MPCC) technique for characterisation of scintillators for cryogenic applications.