FINAL BULLETIN
ICFA
INSTRUMENTATION SCHOOL
National Accelerator Centre,
Faure, South Africa
March 26 to April 6, 2001
SCHOOL ON
INSTRUMENTATION IN PARTICLE
PHYSICS
Organized by
ICFA Panel on
Instrumentation Innovation and Development
and
National
Accelerator Centre, Faure, South Africa
Introduction
It is a great honour and pleasure for the
National Accelerator Centre to host the ICFA Instrumentation School in 2001,
the first time that this event is held in Africa.
A large number of students from many parts
of the world applied, and it is indeed a pity that we could not afford to fund
all the students who requested financial support and who could as a result not
attend the event this year. The number of applicants from the African continent
was encouraging and we hope that the school will be a success and stimulate
even more interest in high-energy physics, nuclear physics and in the
applications of the instrumentation and techniques developed for use in these
fields.
We acknowledge the financial support from
all the contributing agencies that help to make this event possible. In South
Africa we thank the Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, the
National Research Foundation and the National Accelerator Centre for there
support and abroad our thanks to CERN and World Lab (International), DESY
(Germany), INFN and ICTP (Italy), IN2P3 (France), RAL (UK), TRIUMF (Canada),
DOE, FNAL, NSF, BNL, SLAC and Open Society (USA), KEK (Japan) and others.
General
Information
Travel
Details
School
attendees from areas outside Cape Town and environs will be shuttled to and
from the airport, station or bus terminus. A representative of the local
organizing committee displaying an ICFA banner will meet attendees at the
airport. Please inform the organising committee about your arrival and
departure dates and times, and whether you need to be shuttled. If you have not provided this information
yet, please do this as soon as possible, but by not later than Wednesday 21
March.
If on
arrival you have a problem with transport please phone Dr Siegfried
Förtsch at 082 370 6669 or any of the other numbers listed below.
Accommodation
Non-local attendees will be housed in
self-catering beachfront apartments in the Strand (about 20 minutes away from
the NAC by car). Attendees will be shuttled to the apartments and issued with
keys.
ICFA
lecturers and experiment leaders will be housed in guesthouses in Somerset
West.
In the
event of problems relating to accommodation please phone the ICFA local
organizing committee secretary, Ms.
Naomi Haasbroek on 082 370 6100 or e-mail her on [email protected].
Transport
Lecturers and experiment leaders staying in
guesthouses in Somerset West will be shuttled to NAC and back by mini-bus on a
daily basis. A shuttling timetable will
be provided on arrival.
Attendees staying in the Strand beachfront
apartments will be transported to NAC and back to the apartments by bus.
Attendees are requested to wait for the busses at designated pickup points in
Beach Road, Strand. A route map will be provided.
Please note that there is no convenient
public transport to and from NAC.
Meals
All students will get breakfast at NAC on
weekday mornings at 08:00, as well as on the morning of the day excursion
(Sunday 1 April), while lunch will be provided for all attendees. The cost of
breakfast, lunch and morning and afternoon tea/coffee is included in the
registration fee.
Dinners can be obtained on the beachfront
in the Strand with prices varying from below $5 to not more than $10 (wine
excluded). In addition to dinners, attendees are responsible for their own
meals on Saturday 31 March (free day).
Medical
Attendees are urged to supply the
conference secretariat, on registration, with details of medical insurance. In
case of an emergency private hospitals or medical practitioners will not treat
patients without this information and the person would thus have to be referred
to a state hospital.
Minor medical treatment and first aid can
however be obtained from the hospital on the NAC site.
Scientific Program
|
LECTURE COURSES |
|
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· Basic physics and
principles of imaging with electromagnetic radiation |
R. Menk, Trieste,
Italy (to be confirmed) |
|
· Physics and principles
of radiation detectors |
C. Grupen, Siegen,
Germany |
|
· Tracking detectors |
C. Haber, Berkeley,
USA |
|
· Particle identification |
J. Engelfried,
UASLP, Mexico |
|
· Calorimetry |
D. Wegener,
Dortmund, Germany |
|
· Solid state detectors |
I. Abt, MPG,
Germany |
|
· Signal processing |
H. Spieler,
Berkeley, USA |
|
· Data acquisition |
S. Cittolin, CERN,
Switzerland |
|
REVIEW TALKS |
|
|
· Nuclear techniques in
Material Science |
|
|
· Quark-Gluon plasma: expectations and recent results |
A. Marzari, Turino,
Italy |
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· Latest ideas in
radiation detectors |
A. Walenta, Siegen,
Germany |
|
· New experiments in
Astrophysics |
M. Spiro, IN2P3
CNRS, France |
|
· Radiation therapy with
ionizing particles
|
B. Thomadsen,
Wisconsin, USA |
|
· Review of the status of
LHC experiments |
T. Ekelöf, Uppsala,
Sweden(to be confirmed) |
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· Neutrino physics |
A. Para, FNAL, USA |
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· Information transfer
and remote control using the Web |
D. Menasce, INFN,
Milano, Italy |
|
· Modern radiation detectors for medical programs in developing
countries (cooperation of HEP and WHO) |
H. Hoffmann, CERN,
Switzerland |
|
M Altarelli, Eletra, Italy/ R Menk, Trieste, Italy |
|
· Biomedical engineering |
C L Vaughan , UCT ,
South Africa |
|
· Imaging in nuclear
medicine |
H. Du Raan, U.
Orange Free State, South Africa |
|
LABORATORY COURSES |
|
|
Muon Lifetime
Measurement |
D.G. Aschman, UCT, South Africa |
|
Silicon Pixel
Detector |
P. Guibellino, INFN, Torino, Italy |
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Drift Chamber |
A.H. Walenta, Siegen, Germany |
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Imaging 2D Read Out |
R. Menk, Trieste, Italy |
|
Protein
Crystallography |
A. Lausi, Trieste, Italy |
|
Analogue and
Digital Circuits |
G. Hall, IC, London, UK |
|
New-Technology-Based
Read Out |
A. Navoy-Savarro, IN2P3, France |
|
High Speed Data
Acquisition |
M. Sheaff, Wisconsin., USA and M Johnson, Fermilab, USA |
|
Compton Scattering |
T Conka, Siegen, Germany/ K Nurdan, Siegen, Germany |
|
Single Photon
Counting |
P. Krizan, Lubljana, Slovenia |
|
Read Out for
Mammography Imaging |
R. Amendolia, INFN, Pisa, Italy |
FIRST WEEK
|
Day |
9:00 - 10:30 |
coffee |
11:00 - 12:30 |
Lunch |
Afternoon 14:00 – 18:00,
evening |
|
Sun. 25 |
|
|
|
|
Welcome recep-tion,
Registration |
|
Mo. 26 |
C. Grupen: Phys. &
Principles of Rad. Detection |
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C. Haber: Tracking Detectors |
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I. Abt: Solid State
Detectors |
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Tu. 27 |
K. Grupen: Phys. & Principles of Rad. Detection |
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H. Spieler: Signal Processing |
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Lab. Courses |
|
Wed. 28 |
J. Engelfried: Particle
Identification |
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H. Spieler: Signal Processing |
|
Tour of NAC |
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Th. 29 |
D. Wegener: Calorimetry |
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S. Cittolin: Data Acquisition |
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Lab. Courses |
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Fr. 30 |
D. Wegener: Calorimetry |
|
T. Ekelhof: Future particle
physics. Topical seminar |
|
Lab. Courses |
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Sat. 31 |
Free |
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Free |
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Free |
SECOND WEEK
|
Day |
9:00 - 10:30 |
coffee |
11:00 - 12:30 |
lunch |
afternoon, 14:00 -18:00,
evening |
|
Sun. 1 |
Excursion |
|
Excursion |
|
Excursion |
|
Mo. 2 |
(To be Conf.) : LHC Experiments |
|
R Menk : Phys. & Imaging of Electromag. Rad. |
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Lab. courses |
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Tu. 3 |
M. Altarelli/Menk: Synchrotron Radiation |
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M. Spiro: Astrophysics A. Para:Neutrino Phys. |
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Lab. Courses |
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Wed. 4 |
C.L. Vaughan: Biomed. Eng. (To be Conf.) Nucl. Techniques |
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A. Marzari: Quark Gluon Plasma B.Thomadsen: Radiation Therapy |
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Lab. Courses |
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Th. 5 |
H. Hoffmann: HEP and WHO |
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A.H. Walenta:
Latest Ideas, D. Menasce:Info Trans. WEB |
|
Lab. courses, Banquet |
|
Fr. 6 |
H Du Raan: Imaging in Nucl.
Med. |
|
closing session |
|
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Social Program
Welcome
Reception and Registration
All school attendees, lecturers and
experiment leaders are cordially invited to the reception that will be held in
the NAC Reception Area on Sunday 25 March 2001.
The programme for the evening is as
follows:
17:30 –
19:00 - registration and finger-supper
19:00 –
19:10 - Welcome address by Dr. Sibisi
(Chairperson
National Council for Innovation)
19:15 – 20.00 – Keynote Address
Prof. A H Walenta
(Chair: ICFA Instrumentation Panel and
International Organizing
Committee)
Tour of
NAC and Braai(Barbeque)
The
National Accelerator Centre is a multi-disciplinary facility that operates
particle accelerators for basic research, radio-nuclide production and
radiation therapy.
The
accelerators on site are two Solid Pole Cyclotrons (8 MeV proton energy) as
injectors for a K=600 Separated Sector Cyclotron and a 6 MV Van De Graaff
accelerator with a microprobe.
A tour
of the facilities will be held on the afternoon of Wednesday 28/3. This will be
followed by a braai (South African for a barbeque) on site. Special meals
(vegetarian, Kosher, Halaal ) will be available to those who requested it on
their registration forms.
ICFA day excursion
A
full-day tour of the Cape Peninsula will be undertaken on Sunday 1 April, with
a drive along the Atlantic coast to the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve, where
a picnic lunch will be held. The drive continues up the False Bay coast, and
then to the world famous Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens. We will end up at the
Cape Town Victoria and Alfred Waterfront where attendees can wander around on
foot and eat in one of the many restaurants. Buses will leave from NAC at 9:00
after breakfast. Please note that transport for students to NAC will leave from
the Strand at the normal weekday time of 7:30 while lecturers /speakers should
be at NAC by 8:15.
websites: www.nbi.ac.za/frames/kirstfram.htm
(Kirstenbosch)
www.waterfront.co.za (Waterfront)
ICFA-related
Public Lecture
In an
attempt to bolster local public interest in Science and Technology the ICFA2001
organizing committee has arranged a public lecture in the Strand Town Hall on
Tuesday, 3 April. The lecture will be advertised at all local schools as well.
All school attendees, lecturers and laboratory demonstrators are cordially
invited.
The
programme for the evening is still to be confirmed.
ICFA2001
Banquet
The final social function for ICFA2001 will
be a banquet dinner at the Deltameer Function Centre near Franschoek on
Thursday 5 April at 20:00.
The price of the banquet is included in the
registration of all attendees and speakers but $ 25 will be charged for
accompanying persons. Transport to and from the venue will be provided (see
section on transport).
websites: www.deltameer.co.za
Accompanying
persons and Miscellaneous Tours
Accompanying persons, lecturers, experiment
leaders or attendees who are interested in going on any additional tours (other
than the day excursion) during their stay are requested to directly contact the
Affinity Tour and Charter Company, the official supplier of tourism-related
services for ICFA2001.
Affinity representatives will also be
organizing an information desk at the ICFA welcome reception function (see
above).
contact details: Carol Martin
Affinity Tour and Charter Company
e-mail: [email protected]
Fax: +27 (0) 21 797 9013
Tel.:+27 (0) 21 797 9012
Transport
Time Table
The daily bus timetable is as follows:
Depart Strand Depart
NAC
7:30 18:15
On the days that there are special
functions the timetable is as follows:
Date Depart
Strand Depart NAC
Sun.
25 March 17:00 20:15 (welcome
function)
Wed.
28 March 07:30 20:15
(after braai)
Date Depart
Strand Depart V&A
waterfront
Sun.
01 Apr. 7:30 20:00 (after day
excursion)
Date Depart Beach Road Depart Strand Town Hall
Tues.
03 Apr. 19.00 21:30 (after public lecture)
Date Depart Strand Depart Deltameer
Thurs. 05 Apr. 19:00 midnight (after banquet)
Contact
details for further information
Ms. Naomi Haasbroek
Secretary
ICFA2001 Local Organizing Committee
e-mail
: [email protected]
tel. (w)
: (+27 21) 843 3820
cell.
: 082 370 6100
Dr Kobus Lawrie
Chair: Local Organizing Committee
cell: 083 597 4577
fax. (w)
: (+27 21) 843 3525
postal address :
P.O. Box 72, Faure 7131
website
: www.nac.ac.za/icfa2001