PSD10: 10th International Conference on Position Sensitive Detectors

Session

Session 1: Applications in Astronomy and Astrophysics

S01

8 Sept 2014, 08:40

University of Surrey

130. (Invited) An overview of the STFC pixel detector programme

Mr Marcus Julian French (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

08/09/2014, 08:40

Advances in Pixel Detectors and Integration Technologies

Invited Paper

The UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) deliver detector systems to large scale scientific facilities both in the UK and world-wide. It achieves this through a combination of central laboratory and university led projects and undertakes its own research and development programmes. As part of this activity the STFC’s central laboratories at Harwell, Daresbury and Edinburgh...

39. On-ground characterization of the Euclid’s low noise CCD273 sensor for precise galaxy shape measurements

Dr Magdalena Szafraniec (UCL, Mullard Space Science Laboratory)

08/09/2014, 09:20

Applications in Astronomy, Planetary and Space Science

Oral Paper

Euclid is a medium class European Space Agency mission with a launch date scheduled for 2020. The survey is designed to study dark matter and energy of the Universe using two cosmological probes: weak gravitational lensing and baryonic acoustic oscillations. Weak lensing investigates the distortions caused to the galaxy shapes and relies on accurate shape measurements. The Euclid Visible...

95. A coded aperture approach for particle measurements in space plasmas

Arrow Lee (U)

08/09/2014, 09:40

Applications in Astronomy, Planetary and Space Science

Oral Paper

Current plasma analysis instruments in the near-Earth environment are limited in their capabilities of measuring angular distribution at a high resolution over a wide field of view, especially of higher energy electrons and ions. A novel low-resource concept is proposed, using a coded aperture manufactured from high density material and a position sensitive detector capable of particle...

108. Experiment of the 30 cm-cube ETCC under the Intense Radiations with Proton Beam

Yoshihiro Matsuoka (Kyoto Univ.)

08/09/2014, 10:00

Applications in Astronomy, Planetary and Space Science

Oral Paper

As the MeV gamma-ray telescope in the next generation, we are developing an electron-tracking Compton camera (ETCC). An ETCC consists of a gaseous time projection chamber and pixel scintillator arrays. Since the gaseous time projection chamber measures three dimensional tracks of Compton-recoil electrons, the ETCC can reconstruct gamma rays completely. Moreover, the ETCC has an efficient...

80. Pre and Post Proton Irradiation Responsivity Mapping of the Swept Charge Device CCD236

Phillipa Smith (O)

08/09/2014, 10:20

X-ray and gamma ray detectors

Oral Paper

This work describes the responsitivty mapping of an e2v technolgies Swept Charge Device (SCD) CCD236 pre and post irradiation with a 10 MeV equivalent proton fluence of 5.0×108 protons.cm-2. The CCD236 is a large area (4.4 cm2) X-ray detector which will be used in India’s Chandrayaan-2 Large Soft X-ray Spectrometer (CLASS) and China’s Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT). Due to the...