Linac4 Beam Characterization before Injection into the CERN PS Booster (2009)
Mikulec, B, Bellodi, G, Eshraqi, M, Hanke, K, Hermanns, T, Lombardi, A M, ...
Construction work for the new CERN linear accelerator, Linac4, started in October 2008. Linac4 will replace the existing Linac2 and provide an H− beam at 160 MeV (as opposed to the present 50 MeV...
High Intensity Beams from the CERN PS Booster (2009)
Mikulec, B, Chanel, M, Findlay, A, Hanke, K, Quatraro, D, Rumolo, G, ...
The CERN Proton Synchrotron Booster (PSB) has been running for more than 30 years. Originally designed to accelerate particles from 50 to 800 MeV, later upgradedto an energy of 1 GeV and finally 1.4...
LHC Beams from the CERN PS Booster (2009)
Mikulec, B, Blas, A, Carli, C, Findlay, A, Hanke, K, Rumolo, G, ...
The CERN PS Booster (PSB) produces a variety of beam flavours for the LHC. While the nominal LHC physics beams require 6 Booster bunches with intensities up to 1.6·1012 protons per bunch, during the...
Reference Measurements of the Longitudinal Impedance in the CERN SPS (2009)
Shaposhnikova, E, Bohl, T, Damerau, H, Hanke, K, Linnecar, T, Mikulec, B, ...
First reference measurements of the longitudinal impedance were made with beam in the SPS machine in 1999 to quantify the results of the impedance reduction programme, completed in 2001. The 2001...
Coherent tune shift and instabilities measurements at the CERN Proton Synchrotron Booster (2009)
Quatraro, D, Rumolo, G, Blas, A, Chanel, M, Findlay, A, Mikulec, B
To understand one of the contributions to the intensity limitations of the CERN Proton Synchrotron Booster (PSB) in view of its operation with beams from Linac 4, the impedance of the machine has...
Studies on single batch transfer of the LHC type beams between the CERN PS Booster and the PS (2009)
Blas, A, Carli, C, Findlay, A, Garoby, R, Hancock, S, Hanke, K, ...
At present, for most LHC type physics beams, six buckets of the PS operated with harmonic number h=7 are filled in two transfers, and each of the PS Booster rings provides only one bunch. The scheme...
Non relativistic Broad Band wake fields and potential-well distortion (2009)
Quatraro, D, Rumolo, G, Findlay, A, Mikulec, B
The study of the interaction between a particle beam and wake fields is usually based on the assumption of ultra relativistic beams. This is not the case, for example, for the Proton Synchrotron...
Alignment of the Pixel and SCT Modules for the 2004 ATLAS Combined Test Beam (2008)
Ahmad, A., Andreazza, A., Atkinson, T., Baines, J., Barr, A. J., Beccherle, R., ...
A small set of final prototypes of the ATLAS Inner Detector silicon tracker (Pixel and SCT) were used to take data during the 2004 Combined Test Beam. Data were collected from runs with beams of...
Corresponding author. Tel.: 41-22-76-73788; fax.: 41-22-76-73394. (2008)
Mail Address Iztok, I. Ropotar, F. Antinori, D. Barberis, K. H. Becks, ...
Hybrid assemblies of LHC1 read-out chips and 300 #m thick silicon pixel detectors have been tested with a 120 GeV/c pion beam at the CERN SPS. The equivalent noise charge at the input of the...
X-ray Imaging Using a Hybrid Photon Counting GaAs Pixel Detector (2007)
Schwarz Campbell Goeppert, C. Schwarz, G. Meddeler, B. Mikulec, E. Pernigotti, K. Runge
rmined. The applications of these imaging systems range from medical applications like digital mammography or dental X-ray diagnostics to non destructive material testing (NDT). Because of the...
The Data Acquisition and Calibration System for the ATLAS Semiconductor Tracker (2007)
Abdesselam, A, Barber, T, Barr, A J, Bell, P, Bernabeu, J, Butterworth, J M, ...
The SemiConductor Tracker (SCT) data acquisition (DAQ) system will calibrate, configure, and control the approximately six million front-end channels of the ATLAS silicon strip detector. It will...
The optical links of the ATLAS SemiConductor tracker (2007)
Wilson, J. A., Abdesselam, A., Allport, P. P., Apsimon, R. J., Band, C., Barr, A. J., ...
28 pages, 17 figures.-- PACS nrs.: 42.88.+h, 04.40.Nr, 85.40, 85.60.-- ISI Article Identifier: 000253652000008.-- Open Access article at the publisher's site.
Abdesselam, A, Barr, A, Basiladze, S, Bates, R L, Bell, P, Bingefors, N, ...
The ATLAS SemiConductor Tracker (SCT) is one of the largest existing semiconductor detectors. It is situated between the Pixel detector and the Transition Radiation Tracker at one of the four...
The ATLAS semiconductor tracker end-cap module (2007)
Abdesselam, A., Adkin, P. J., Allport, P. P., Alonso, J., Andricek, L., Anghinolfi, F., ...
37 pages, 43 figures.-- PACS nrs.: 29.40.Gx; 29.40.Wk.-- ISI Article Identifier: 000247146800010.-- Printed version published on Jun 1, 2007.
Beam tests of ATLAS SCT silicon strip detector modules (2005)
Campabadal, F, Fleta, C, Key, MH, Lozano, M, Martinez, C, Pellegrini, G, ...
Detective quantum efficiency of the Medipix pixel detector (2003)
Davidson, D.W., Watt, J., Tlustos, L., Mikulec, B., Campbell, M., Mathieson, K., ...
We have measured the intrinsic performance of a digital X-ray detector, the Medipix1, by examining the total detective quantum efficiency (DQE). We studied how the DQE depends on both the incident...
Dose reductions in dental X-ray imaging using Medipix (2003)
Watt, J., Davidson, D.W., Johnston, C., Smith, C., Tlustos, L., Mikulec, B., ...
We have measured the noise power spectra for a commercial CCD device, for dental X-ray imaging, and an X-ray photon counting chip, Medipixl. This quantity provides a measure of the noise propagation...
Schwarz, C., Campbell, M., Goeppert, R., Ludwig, J., Mikulec, B., Rogalla, M., ...
New developments in medical imaging head towards semiconductor detectors flip-chip bonded to CMOS readout chips. In this work, detectors fabricated on SI-GaAs bulk material were bonded to Photon...
Measurements with Si and GaAs pixel detectors bonded to photon counting readout chips (2001)
Schwarz, C., Campbell, M., Goeppert, R., Ludwig, J., Mikulec, B., Runge, K., ...
Detectors fabricated with SI-GaAs and Si bulk material were bonded to Photon Counting Chips (PCC), developed in the framework of the MEDIPIX Collaboration. The PCC consists of a matrix of 64 x 64...
Applications of pixellated GaAs X-ray detectors in a synchrotron radiation beam (2001)
Watt, J., Bates, R., Campbell, M., Mathieson, K., Mikulec, B., O'Shea, V., ...
Hybrid semiconductor pixel detectors are being investigated as imaging devices for radiography and synchrotron radiation beam applications. Based on previous work in the CERN RD19 and the UK IMPACT...
Single Photon Detection with Semiconductor Pixel Arrays for Medical Imaging Applications (2000)
This thesis explores the functioning of a single photon counting pixel detector for X-ray imaging. It considers different applications for such a device, but focuses mainly on the field of medical...
Characterisation of a single photon counting pixel system for imaging of low-contrast objects (1999)
Mikulec, B, Campbell, M, Dipasquale, G, Schwarz, C, Watt, J
In the framework of the Medipix collaboration the PCC, a single photon counting pixel chip, has been developed with the aim of improving the contrast resolution in medical imaging applications. The...
Alemi, M, Campbell, M, Gys, Thierry, Mikulec, B, Piedigrossi, D, Puertolas, D, ...
We report on the first operation of a hybrid photon detector prototype with integrated silicon pixel readout for the ring imaging Cherenkov detectors of the LHCb experiment. The photon detector is...
X-ray Imaging Using a Hybrid Photon Counting GaAs Pixel Detector (1998)
Schwarz, C., Campbell, M., Goeppert, R., Heijne, E. H. M., Ludwig, J., Meddeler, G., ...
The performance of hybrid GaAs pixel detectors as X-ray imaging sensors were investigated at room temperature. These hybrids consist of 300 mu-m thick GaAs pixel detectors, flip-chip bonded to a CMOS...
Performance of 4096 pixel photon counting chip (1998)
Bisogni, M G, Campbell, M, Conti, M, Delogu, P, Fantacci, M E, Heijne, Erik H M, ...
A 4096 pixel Photon Counting Chip (PCC) has been developed and tested. It is aimed primarily at medical imaging although it can be used for other applications involving particle counting. The readout...
Detective quantum efficiency of the Medipix pixel detector
Davidson, D.W., Watt, J., Tlustos, L., Mikulec, B., Campbell, M., Mathieson, K., ...
We have measured the intrinsic performance of a digital X-ray detector, the Medipix1, by examining the total detective quantum efficiency (DQE). We studied how the DQE depends on both the incident...
Dose-dependent X-ray measurements using a 64x64 hybrid GaAs pixel detector with photon counting
Schwarz, C., Campbell, M., Goeppert, R., Ludwig, J., Mikulec, B., Rogalla, M., ...
New developments in medical imaging head towards semiconductor detectors flip-chip bonded to CMOS readout chips. In this work, detectors fabricated on SI-GaAs bulk material were bonded to Photon...
Measurements with Si and GaAs pixel detectors bonded to photon counting readout chips
Schwarz, C., Campbell, M., Goeppert, R., Ludwig, J., Mikulec, B., Runge, K., ...
Detectors fabricated with SI-GaAs and Si bulk material were bonded to Photon Counting Chips (PCC), developed in the framework of the MEDIPIX Collaboration. The PCC consists of a matrix of 64 x 64...
Applications of pixellated GaAs X-ray detectors in a synchrotron radiation beam
Watt, J., Bates, R., Campbell, M., Mathieson, K., Mikulec, B., O'Shea, V., ...
Hybrid semiconductor pixel detectors are being investigated as imaging devices for radiography and synchrotron radiation beam applications. Based on previous work in the CERN RD19 and the UK IMPACT...
Dose reductions in dental X-ray imaging using Medipix
Watt, J., Davidson, D.W., Johnston, C., Smith, C., Tlustos, L., Mikulec, B., ...
We have measured the noise power spectra for a commercial CCD device, for dental X-ray imaging, and an X-ray photon counting chip, Medipixl. This quantity provides a measure of the noise propagation...
Detective quantum efficiency of the Medipix pixel detector
Davidson, D.W., Watt, J., Tlustos, L., Mikulec, B., Campbell, M., Mathieson, K., ...
We have measured the intrinsic performance of a digital X-ray detector, the Medipix1, by examining the total detective quantum efficiency (DQE). We studied how the DQE depends on both the incident...
Dose-dependent X-ray measurements using a 64x64 hybrid GaAs pixel detector with photon counting
Schwarz, C., Campbell, M., Goeppert, R., Ludwig, J., Mikulec, B., Rogalla, M., ...
New developments in medical imaging head towards semiconductor detectors flip-chip bonded to CMOS readout chips. In this work, detectors fabricated on SI-GaAs bulk material were bonded to Photon...
Measurements with Si and GaAs pixel detectors bonded to photon counting readout chips
Schwarz, C., Campbell, M., Goeppert, R., Ludwig, J., Mikulec, B., Runge, K., ...
Detectors fabricated with SI-GaAs and Si bulk material were bonded to Photon Counting Chips (PCC), developed in the framework of the MEDIPIX Collaboration. The PCC consists of a matrix of 64 x 64...
Applications of pixellated GaAs X-ray detectors in a synchrotron radiation beam
Watt, J., Bates, R., Campbell, M., Mathieson, K., Mikulec, B., O'Shea, V., ...
Hybrid semiconductor pixel detectors are being investigated as imaging devices for radiography and synchrotron radiation beam applications. Based on previous work in the CERN RD19 and the UK IMPACT...
Dose reductions in dental X-ray imaging using Medipix
Watt, J., Davidson, D.W., Johnston, C., Smith, C., Tlustos, L., Mikulec, B., ...
We have measured the noise power spectra for a commercial CCD device, for dental X-ray imaging, and an X-ray photon counting chip, Medipixl. This quantity provides a measure of the noise propagation...