News

• 2017/09/28   Report on the status of nuclear debris of the Unit-3, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant

The group of Prof. K. Hara and researchers from KEK and Tokyo Metropolotan University reported the interim status of nuclear debris of the Unit-2, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant by using muon radiography. link (japanese) METI Web Page

• 2017/9/10-15   26-th International Workshop on Vertex Detectors

The 26-th Workshop VERTEX2017 was held at Las Caldas, Spain. Prof. K. Hara presented an invited talk "Recent developments of SOI Pixel Devices". Workshop HP

• 2017/07/28   Interim Report on the status of nuclear debris of the Unit-3, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant

The group of Prof. K. Hara and researchers from KEK and Tokyo Metropolotan University reported the interim status of nuclear debris of the Unit-2, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant by using muon radiography. link (japanese) METI Web Page

• 2017/6/29-30   8-th Workshop for SOI

The 8-th workshop for SOI was held at Miyazaki U. Prof. K. Hara, and two graduate students S. Endo and D. Yamauchi presented their recent results.
Workshop Web Page (japanese)

• 2017/6/26   Two projects are selected for TIA-Kakehashi

Two projects have been seleted from the Laboratory for FY2017 TIA-Kakehashi
Research on 3D stacked Semiconductors for particle imaging (KEK,AIST,U-Tsukuba,U-Tokyo)
Easy and Convienient superconductor measurements (KEK, AIST, NIMS,U-Tsukuba,U-Tokyo)


• 2017/6/23   Development of particle sensor with world-best spatial resolution (press release)

The researchers from U Tsukuba (Prof. K. Hara, leader), KEK, Osaka U and Tohoku U. succeeded in developing a particle sensor with a spatial resolution better than 1 micron, first time ever, using a Silicon-On-Insulator technology.
University Web Page (japanese)

• 2017/05/22-26   Fourth International Symposium on Technology amd Instrumentation in Particle Physics

The Symposium was held at Beijing, China. The following presentaions were given:
S-H Kim,"Development of Superconducting Tunnel Junction Photon Detector with Cryogenic Preamplifier for COBAND experiment"
K. Hara, "Fine-Pixel Detector FPIX Realizing Sub-micron Spatial Resolution Developed Based on FD-SOI Technology"
K. Takemasa,"Development of Superconducting Tunnel Junction Detector using Hafnium for COBAND experiment"
Symposium HP

• 2016/11/10   The second Workshop on Photon and Particle Detectors

The second workshop on Photon and Particle Detectors(LDPPD) was held at Tsukuba International Convention Center EPOCAL on Nov.10th for 9:30-17:20. There were more than 100 participants. Event HP (Japanese)

• 2016/09/02   The first Workshop on SOI-STJ

The first workshop on SOI-STJ was held at Natural Science Bld B118 on 2016/09/02.

• 2016/07/28   Report on the status of nuclear debris of the Unit-2, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant

The group of Prof. K. Hara and researchers from KEK and Tokyo Metropolotan University reported the status of nuclear debris of the Unit-2, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant by using muon radiography. link (japanese) METI Web Page

• 2016/03/02   The first Workshop on Photon and Particle Detectors

The first workshop on Photon and Particle Detectors(LDPPD) was held at Room 110 of Sogo B Building at University of Tsukuba with 22 participants, including researchers from KEK, AIST and Univesity of Tokyo on March 2, 2016. link

• 2015/11/30   The kick-off meeting of Laboratory for Development of Photon and Particle Detectors

The kick-off meeting of Laboratory for Development of Photon and Particle Detectors(LDPPD) was held at workshop room of Center for Computational Sciences at University of Tsukuba with 15 participants, including three researchers from KEK and two from AIST, on Novemver 30, 2015.

The program of the kick-off meeting

15:00 - 15:10	Introduction to LDPPD	Shinhong Kim
15:10 - 15:30	Superconducting detector	Yuji Takeuchi
15:30 - 15:50	SOI pixel detector	Kazuhiko Hara
15:50 - 16:10	Studies of biomolecule with superconducting detector	Shigeo Tomita
16:10 - 16:30	Break
16:30 - 16:50	Synchrotron X-ray diffraction study	Eiji Nishibori
16:50 - 17:10	Surface Physics and Chemistry by spectrum analysis	Takehiro Kondo
17:10 - 17:25	Large-scale structure imaging using cosmic ray	Kazuhiko Hara
17:25 - 17:40	Silicon electromagnetic calorimeter and others	ShinIchi Esumi

Laboratory for Development of Photon and Particle Detectors

This Division works as a base for the development of photon and particle detectors in the Center for the Tomomaga Center for the History of the Universe, to realize new detectors to be deployed in various research areas.

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