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Conference Submissions: Abstracts, Papers, and Posters

• Comparison of Candidate Secondary Electron Emission Materials
  Z. Insepov, V. Ivanov, and H. Frisch, November 2009 (Vienna Conference Abstract)


• Gain and Time Resolution Simulations in Saturated MCP Pores
  V. Ivanov and Z. Insepov November 2009 (Vienna Conference Abstract)


• Fast Sampling Chip Design
  Herve Grabas Sept 2009 (PDF)


• Fast Sampling Chip Design
  Herve Grabas, Internship Presentation, 3 Sept. 2009 (PPT)


• Signal Processing for Pico-second Resolution Timing Measurements
  Jean-Francois Genat, Gary Varner, Fukun Tang, Henry Frisch(Nucl. Instr. and Meth May 5, 2009) (PDF)


• Beam Test of a Time-of-Flight Detector Prototype,
  J. Va'vra, et al. (Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 2009) (PDF)


• Study of Timing Properties of Silicon Photomultipliers,
  Anatoly Ronzhin (IEEE08, October, 2008; Dresden Germany) (Abstract PDF)(Images PDF)


• Testing a Silicon Photomultiplier Time-of-Flight (TOF) System in Ferimlab's Test Beam Facility,
  Anatoly Ronzhin (IEEE08, October, 2008; Dresden Germany) (PDF)


• The Timing Properties of a Picosecond MCP-PMT Measured at the Fermilab MTEST Test Beam,
  Gary Drake (IEEE08, October, 2008; Dresden Germany) (PDF)


• New Developments in Fast-Sampling Analog Readout of MCP-Based Large-Area Picosecond Time -of-Flight Detectors,
  Fukun Tang (IEEE08, October, 2008; Dresden Germany) (PDF)


• Development of Picosecond-Resolution Large-Area Time-of-Flight Systems,
  Camden Ertley et al. (SORMA08, June 2008; Berkeley, CA) (PPT)


• Transmission-Line Readout with Good Time and Space Resolutions for a Planicon MCP-PMT,
  Fukun Tang et al.
  Poster presented at the Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics (TWEPP),
  Parallel Session B6 - Friday 19 September 2007
  Prague Czech Republic, Sept., 2007. (PDF)


• Development of Front-End Electronics for Picosecond Resolution TOF Detectors,
  Fukun Tang et al.
  Poster at the Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics (TWEPP),
  Prague, Czech Republic; Sept.,2007. (PPT)


• MCP-PMT Anode Development for Picosecond-Resolution Time-of-flight Detectors,
  T.Credo, H. Frisch, H. Sanders, F. Tang, K. Byrum and G. Drake, Submitted to NSSC/MIC IEEE, Honolulu, Hawaii, Oct 27-Nov 3, 2007 (PDF)


• Developing Large-area Psec Timing: The MCP Return-PathProblem and a Proposed Solution,
  T. Credo, H. Frisch, H. Sanders, F. Tang, K. Byrum and G. Drake, (IEEE06, San Diego, CA) July 2006 (PDF)


• Development of a Readout System for Large Scale Time-of-Flight Systems with Picosecond Resolution,
  T. Credo, H. Frisch, H. Sanders, F. Tang, J. van Santen, K. Byrum and G. Drake,
  (IEEE06, San Diego, CA) 19 May 2006 (PDF, DOC)


• Development of a Picosecond-Resolution TDC for Large Scale Time-of-Flight Systems,
  T. Credo, H. Frisch, H. Sanders, F. Tang, K. Byrum, G. Drake,
  (IEEE06, San Diego, CA ), 19 May 2006. Abstract (PPT) Paper (PPT) )


• Psec TOF for Particle Identification at HEP Colliders,
  T. Credo, H. Frisch, R. Schroll, H. Sanders, and F. Tang,
  IEEE04, Rome, Italy 1 Nov. 2004 (DOC, PDF) Poster (JPEG) )

All Digital TOF-PET

• Continuous Scintillator Slab with Microchannel Plate PMT for PET
  Heejong Kim, et al. 2009 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium. (PDF)


• A Design of PET detector using Microchannel Plate PMT with Transmission Line Readout
  Heejong Kim, et al. 2009 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium. (PDF)


• Potentials of Digitally Sampling Scintillation Pulses in Timing Determination in PET,
  Qingguo Xie et al. TNS-00534-2008.R1, Submitted to IEEE Transactions in Nuclear Science, Aug. 2008 (PDF)


• Potential Advantages of Digitally Sampling Scintillation Pulses in Timing Determination in PET,
  Qingguo Xie et al. TNS-00534-2008, Submitted to IEEE Transactions in Nuclear Science, Aug. 2008 (PDF)


• A Multi-Threshold Method for TOF-PET Signal Processing,
  Heejong Kim (IEEE08, October, 2008; Dresden Germany) (PDF)


• Time of Flight in PET Using Fast Timing and Leading Edge
  Fit Optimization,
  Daniel Herbst (IEEE08, October, 2008; Dresden Germany) (PDF)


• Electronics development for fast-timing PET detectors: The multi-threshold discriminator Time of Flight PET system,
  Jialie Lin, Octavia Biris, Chin-Tu Chen, Woon-Seng Choong, Henry Frisch, Chien-Min Kao, William W. Moses, Fukun Tang, Qingguo Xie, Lin Zhou
  SORMA, Berkeley CA, May, 2008 (PPT)


• Potential Advantages of Digitally Sampling Scintillation Pulses in Time Determination in PET,
  Q. Xie, C.M. Kao, X. Wang, N. Guo, C. Zhu, H. Frisch, W.W. Moses, C.T. Chen, NSSC/MIC IEEE, Honolulu, Hawaii, Oct 27-Nov 3, 2007 ( PDF)


• Fast Timing and TOF in PET Medical Imaging,
  William W. Moses (October 15, 2008; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) (Powerpoint)


• Review on Scintillators,
  William W. Moses (December 7, 2003; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) (PDF)


• Factors influencing timing resolution in a commercial LSO PET camera,
  W.W. Moses, M. Ullisch (2004; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) (PDF)

Internal Notes

• MCP Upgrade: Transmission Line and Pore Importance,
  Tyler Natoli, 3 June 2009 (PDF)


• MCP Pore Angle Calculation,
  Guilherme Nettesheim, 22 May 2009 (PDF)


• Creating an Audio Integrator,
  Matt McMahon (REU Student), 22 August 2008 (PDF)


• Creating an Audio Integrator,
  Emma Ideal (REU Student), 22 August 2008 (PDF)


• Design and Simulation of a High Bandwidth Current-to-Voltage Buffer for Analog Sampling,
  Andrew Floren (UT Austin Student), August 2008 (DOC)


• Picosecond Time-of-Flight System Clock Distribution Subsystem,
  John T. Anderson, 15 August 2007 (DOC)


• Stability and cost of time references from Symmetricom,
  Jean-Francois Genat (DOC)


• 50 GS/sec Block Sampler Demo,
  Jean-Francois Genat (DOC)


• A Prototype Data Acquisition Chip for Large-area, Picosecond Resolution, Time-of-Flight Detectors,
  J. van Santen, Senior Honors Thesis, 16 May 2006 (PDF, LaTeX Source - gzipped)


• Picosecond Timing with Cherenkov Light in a ``Head-on'' Geometry,
  R. Schroll, H. Frisch, June 2004 (gzipped Postscript)

Proposals (Partial List)

• Pico-second Time-of-Flight Detector Electronics Development Proposal, T. Credo, H.Frisch, H. Sanders, F. Tang, K. Byrum and G. Drake, Submitted to the DOE ADR program, 15 Dec. 2005 .(PDF)

References on Fast Sampling

• Sub-10ps Monolithic and Low-power Photodetector Readout
  Gary S. Varner and Larry L. Ruckman, Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A602:438-445,2009. (Link)


• The first version Buffered Large Analog Bandwidth (BLAB1) ASIC for high luminosity collider and extensive radio neutrino detectors,
  Larry L. Ruckman, Gary S. Varner, Andrew Wong,
  Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A591:534-545,2008 (LINK)


• The large analog bandwidth recorder and digitizer with ordered readout (LABRADOR) ASIC
  Gary Varner, The University of Hawaii
  Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A583:447-460,2007 ( Link to LABRADOR Chip documentation)


• The PRO1 ASIC for Fast Wilkinson Encoding.
  L.L. Ruckman and G.S. Varner, Journ. Instr. Vol. 3:P12003, 2008. (Link)


• Compact, low-power and precision timing photodetector readout.
  Gary S. Varner, Larry L. Ruckman, Jochen Schwiening, Jaroslav Vavra,Proceedings of Science, PD07:026, 2006. (Link)

Links to Other Useful Documents

• Link to Photec Website: Technical papers listed on page include "Picosecond Time Response Characteristics of Micro-Channel Plate PMT Detectors" and others concerning fast time.


• Timing and Jitter Measurements with CMOS Circuits, K.A. Jenkins (IBM), 7 May 2007 (PDF)


• A 96-Channel FPGA-Based Time-to-Digital Converter (Draft), 1 Feb. 2005 (PDF, LaTeX, Postscript)


• A 5-ps TOF-counter with an MCP-PMT, K. Inami, N. Kishimoto, Y. Enari, M. Nagamine, T. Ohshima (Nagoya U.)2006. 6pp.Published in Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A560:303-308,2006.(LINK)


• Cross-talk of a multi-anode PMT and attainment of a a sigma approx 10-ps TOF counter, Y. Enari et al. 2005. 14pp.(LINK)


• Microchannel plate operation at high count rates: new results
  A.S. Tremsin, J.F. Pearson, G.W. Fraser, B.W. Feller and P. White,
  Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research (section A), *379* (1996) pp.139-151. (PDF)


• Low resistance conductively-cooled microchannel plates
  A.S. Tremsin, J.F. Pearson, J.E. Lees and G.W. Fraser, Proc. SPIE *2808*, pp.86-97,
  EUV, X-ray and Gamma-ray Instrumentation for Astronomy VII, Denver, Colorado, USA, August 1996.


• Microchannel Plate Detectors, J. Wiza, Reprinted from Nuclear Instruments and Methods, 1979(PDF)