ASTROPARTICLE, PARTICLE AND SPACE PHYSICS, DETECTORS AND MEDICAL PHYSICS APPLICATIONS

ASTROPARTICLE, PARTICLE AND SPACE PHYSICS, DETECTORS AND MEDICAL PHYSICS APPLICATIONS
Proceedings of the 11th Conference

Villa Olmo, Como, Italy, 5 - 9 October 2009

CONTENTS


FRONT MATTER	i
Advanced Detectors and Particle Identification
Advanced Detectors and Particle Identification	1
Development of photodetection system based on multipixel avalanche Geiger photodiodes with WLS for LXe low-background detectors D. Yu. Akimov, A. V. Akindinov, I. S. Alexandrov, A. A. Burenkov, M. V. Danilov, A. G. Kovalenko and V. N. Stekhanov	3
EMPLOYING CARBON NANO-TUBES IN NEW NANO-STRUCTURED RADIATION DETECTORS A. AMBROSIO, M. Ambrosio, C. Aramo, V. Carillo, F. Guarino, P. Maddalena, V. Grossi, M. Passacantando, S. Santucci and A. Valentini	8
THE RICH DETECTOR OF THE NA62 EXPERIMENT AT CERN PATRIZIA CENCI	15
STATUS AND PERSPECTIVES OF CHERENKOV IMAGING COUNTERS S. DALLA TORRE	22
STUDY OF BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES WITH DETECTOR MEDIPIX2 JIRI DAMMER, VIT SOPKO, JAN JAKUBEK, DANIEL VAVRIK and FRANTISEK WEYDA	32
NEW POSSIBILITIES IN MEDICAL X-RAY IMAGING WITH PHOTON COUNTING PIXEL DETECTORS J. DURST, P. BARTL, E. GUNI, W. HAAS, A. RITTER, P. TAKOUKAM TALLA, T. WEBER, T. MICHEL and G. ANTON	37
Cherenkov light detection for the LHCb RICH Upgrade C. ARNABOLDI, E. FANCHINI, C. GOTTI, M. MAINO and G. PESSINA	44
THE TIMING COUNTER OF THE MEG EXPERIMENT K. FRATINI	49
dE/dx measurements in large volume TPCs A. KALWEIT and M. IVANOV	54
NEW APPROACH IN PHASE CONTRAST X-RAY IMAGING USING CODED APERTURE FRANTISEK KREJCI, JAN JAKUBEK and MARTIN KROUPA	59
Measurements of the photon detection efficiency done for Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes (G-APD) S. Gentile, F. Meddi and E. Kuznetsova	64
Large volume and high efficiency neutron detector for nuclear physics and nuclear astrophysics measurements A. Lavagno, G. Gervino and C. Marino	70
COMPARATIVE MEASUREMENTS OF THE PERFORMANCES OF FOUR SUPER BIALKALI LARGE AREA PHOTOMULTIPLIERS E. LEONORA	75
THE EFFECT OF PULSE RATE ON VACUUM PHOTOTRIODES RESPONSE AND THE USE OF AN LED PULSER TO IMPROVE STABILITY DAWN E. LESLIE	80
Test for upgrading RPCs at very high counting rate G. Aielli, P. Camarri, R. Cardarelli, A. Di Ciaccio, L. Di Stante, B. Liberti, E. Pastori and R. Santonico	85
A scintillating bar tracking detector for the ASACUSA - "trap group" experiment at the CERN AD V. Mascagna, D. Bolognini, M. Corradini, M. Leali, D. Lietti, E. Lodi Rizzini, M. Prest, L. Stoppani, E. Vallazza, L. Venturelli and N. Zurlo	90
FIRST CHARACTERIZATION OF 8X8 MONOLITHIC SILICON PHOTOMULTIPLIER MATRICES FOR PET APPLICATION M. MELCHIORRI, A. PIAZZA, C. PIEMONTE, A. TAROLLI, N. ZORZI, M. G. BISOGNI, A. DEL GUERRA, G. LLOSA and S. MARCATILI	96
RECENT ADVANCES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF RADIATION TOLERANT SILICON DETECTORS FOR THE SUPER-LHC MICHAEL MOLL	101
Precise Measurement of the Gas Gain of a Multi-Wire Proportional Chamber with Cosmic Rays M. Avalle, I. Bernava, F. Brazzi, A. Iannone, M. Piersanti, G. Penso, D. Pinci, M. Anelli, P. Campana, A. Di Virgilio and R. Rosellini	111
The ALICE Time-Of-Flight detector: status and expected performance at the LHC startup A. Akindinov, A. Alici, P. Antonioli, S. Arcelli, M. Basile, G. Cara Romeo, L. Cifarelli, F. Cindolo, A. De Caro, D. De Gruttola, S. De Pasquale, M. Fusco Girard, B. Guerzoni, D. Hatzifotiadou, H. T. Jung, W. W. Jung, D. S. Kim, D. W. Kim, H. N. Kim, J. S. Kim, S. Kiselev, G. Laurenti, K. Lee, S. C. Lee, D. Malkevich, A. Margotti, R. Nania, A. Nedosekin, F. Noferini, P. Pagano, A. Pesci, O. Pinazza, R. Preghenella, M. Ryabinin, E. Scapparone, G. Scioli, A. Silenzi, M. Tchoumakov, K. Voloshin, M. C. S. Williams, B. Zagreev, C. Zampolli and A. Zichichi	116
CONTINUOUS SCINTILLATOR DETECTOR BLOCKS FOR SIMULTANEOUS PET-MR IMAGING OF THE HUMAN BRAIN PEDRO RATO MENDES	121
Calibration of the ATLAS Muon Chambers Felix Rauscher	128
IMPROVED IMAGING IN LOW ENERGY ELECTRON MICROSCOPY AND PHOTO EMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY USING MEDIPIX2 PIXEL DETECTOR I. SIKHARULIDZE, R. van GASTEL, S. SCHRAMM, J. P. ABRAHAMS, B. POELSEMA, R. M. TROM and S. J van der MOLEN	133
APPLICATION OF THE PIN DIODE AS A DOSIMETER FOR DOSE MEASUREMENT OF SEVERAL RADIATION SOURCES VIT SOPKO, JIRI DAMMER, DOMINIK CHREN, BRUNO SOPKO and FRANTISEK LATAL	140
LOW TEMPERATURE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF PVC G. Ventura and V. Martelli	145
Identification of high momentum charged hadrons in ALICE: detector performance and perspectives G. VOLPE	150
PERSPECTIVES WITH THE MEDIPIX2-BASED DETECTORS NETWORK IN ATLAS J. BOUCHAMI, A. GUTIERREZ, C. LEROY, T. HOLY, S. POSPISIL, M. SUK, J. SOLC, D. TURECEK and Z. VYKYDAL	155
Astroparticle and Underground Experiments
Astroparticle and Underground Experiments	163
EXO-200 and R&D prospects Martin Auger	165
DIRECT DETECTION OF DARK MATTER PARTICLES R. BERNABEI, P. BELLI, F. MONTECCHIA, F. NOZZOLI, F. CAPPELLA, A. d'ANGELO, A. INCICCHITTI, D. PROSPERI, R. CERULLI, C. J. DAI, H. L. HE, H. H. KUANG, X. H. Ma, X. D. SHENG and Z. P. YE	170
Cosmic ray physics with the OPERA Detector T. BRUGIERE	180
THE AEGIS EXPERIMENT (ANTIMATTER EXPERIMENT: GRAVITY, INTERFEROMETRY, SPECTROSCOPY) C. CANALI, A. S. BELOV, G. BONOMI, I. BOSCOLO, N. BRAMBILLA, J. BREMER, R. S. BRUSA, V. M. BYAKOV, G. BURGHART, L. CABARET, C. CARRARO, F. CASTELLI, S. CIALDI, D. COMPARAT, G. CONSOLATI, L. DASSA, N. DJOURELOV, M. DOSER, G. DROBYCHEV, A. DUDAREV, A. DUPASQUIER, T. EISEL, D. FABRIS, R. FERRAGUT, G. FERRARI, A. FISCHER, A. FONTANA, P. FORGET, M. LUNARDON, A. GERVASINI, M. G. GIAMMARCHI, S. N. GNINENKO, G. GRIBAKIN, F. HAUG, S. D. HOGAN, L. V. JOERGENSEN, A. KELLERBAUER, T. KOETTIG, D. KRASNICKY, V. LAGOMARSINO, G. MANUZIO, S. MARIAZZI, V. A. MATVEEV, F. MERKT, S. MORETTO, G. NEBBIA, P. NEDELEC, M. K. OBERTHALER, D. PERINI, V. PETRACEK, M. PREVEDELLI, I. Y. AL-QARADAWI, F. QUASSO, C. RICCARDI, O. ROHNE, S. PESENTE, A. ROTONDI, S. STAPNES, D. SILLOU, S. Y. STEPANOV, H. H. STROKE, D. TREZZI, A. VAIRO, G. VIESTI, F. VILLA, H. WALTERS, U. WARRING, S. ZAVATARELLI, A. ZENONI and D. S. ZVEZHINSKIJ	185
KM3NeT A CUBIC-KILOMETRE-SCALE DEEP WATER NEUTRINO TELESCOPE FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA G. DE BONIS	190
Calibration of the ANTARES neutrino telescope Ulf Fritsch	195
Search for Solar Axions with the CAST experiment J. Galan	200
SEARCH FOR A POSSIBLE SPONTANEOUS EMISSION OF MUONS FROM HEAVY NUCLEI M. GIORGINI	205
GALACTIC COSMIC RAYS MODULATION AND PREDICTION FOR THE AMS-02 MISSION P. Bobik, M. J. Boschini, S. Della Torre, M. Gervasi, D. Grandi, K. Kudela and P. G. Rancoita	210
THE CNGS FACILITY: PERFORMANCE AND OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCE EDDA GSCHWENDTNER, KAREL CORNELIS, ILIAS EFTHYMIOPOULOS, ALFREDO FERRARI, ANS PARDONS, HEINZ VINCKE, JOERG WENNINGER, PAOLA SALA and ALBERTO GUGLIELMI	220
MEASUREMENT OF RADIO EMISSION FROM EXTENSIVE AIR SHOWERS JÖRG R. HÖRANDEL	226
DESIGN AND DATA ANALYSIS METHOD OF HSRL RECEIVERS FOR ATMOSPHERIC MONITORING IN ULTRA HIGH ENERGY COSMIC RAY EXPERIMENTS S. MALTEZOS, E. FOKITIS, P. FETFATZIS, A. GEORGAKOPOULOU, V. GIKA, G. KOUTELIERIS, I. MANTROS and A. ARAVANTINOS	236
RECENT PROGRESS IN PICASSO SUJEEWA KUMARATUNGA	242
DEVELOPMENT OF BOLOMETER MATRICES WITH NbSi TES SENSORS FOR THE STUDY OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE RADIATION (CMB) SHU-CHEN LIU, STEFANOS MARNIEROS, LOUIS DUMOULIN, YOURI DOLGOROUKI, LAURENT BERGE and SOPHIE COLLIN	248
NITROGEN MOLECULAR SPECTRA OF AIR FLUORESCENCE EMULATOR USING A LN₂ COOLED CCD S. MALTEZOS, E. FOKITIS, V. GIKA, P. FETFATZIS, G. KOUTELIERIS, E. GALANIS and N. MARAGOS	253
The OPERA experiment: a direct search of the ν_µ → ν_τ oscillations J. Marteau	259
PROPOSED WIRING FOR CUORE EXPERIMENT: A RADIATIVE SOLUTION G. Ventura and V. Martelli	269
Photographic Emulsions in the OPERA Long Baseline Experiment Status and First Results Frank W. Meisel	274
THE GAMMA-RAY SKY UNDER A "NEW" LIGHT M. J. Boschini, M. Gervasi, D. Grandi, E. Memola and P. G. Rancoita	279
THE BOREXINO DETECTOR DAVID MONTANARI	286
An FPGA based second level trigger for the H.E.S.S 28 meter telescope Y. Moudden, P. Venault, D. Calvet, J.-F. Glicenstein and M. Vivier	293
FROM CUORICINO TO CUORE: THE BOLOMETRIC PATH TO THE INVERTED HIERARCHY REGION OF THE NEUTRINO MASS CLAUDIA NONES	298
Search for neutrino bursts from gravitational collapse of stars at the Baksan Underground Scintillation Telescope Yu. F. Novoseltsev, M. M. Boliev, I. M. Dzaparova, S. P. Mikheyev, R. V. Novoseltseva, V. B. Petkov, P. S. Striganov, G. V. Volchenko, V. I. Volchenko and A. F. Yanin	308
Pi of the Sky: modelling of the detector response for more effective search for optical GRB counterparts Lech Wiktor Piotrowski and Aleksander Filip Żarnecki	313
THE SOUND OF NEUTRINOS C. RICHARDT, G. ANTON, K. GRAF, J. HÖßL, U. KATZ, R. LAHMANN and M. NEFF	319
Recent results from the ANTARES experiment Manuela Vecchi	329
Calorimetry
Calorimetry	335
Silicon photomultipliers in calorimetric applications A. Berra, D. Bolognini, V. Bonvicini, D. Cauz, A. Driutti, S. Hasan, D. Iugovaz, D. Lietti, Y. Mascagna, A. Mattera, G. Pauletta, A. Penzo, M. Prest, I. Rashevskaya, S. Reia, F. Scarpino and E. Vallazza	337
Combined Studies of the EM Calorimeter and the Inner Detector in the 2004 ATLAS Combined Testbeam Robert Froeschl	342
The MEG Liquid Xenon calorimeter G. Gallucci	347
COMMISSIONING OF THE ATLAS LIQUID ARGON CALORIMETER A. GIBSON	352
The CMS-HF Calorimeter Readiness for Data Taking E. Gülmez	357
THE PERFORMANCE OF THE CMS HADRON CALORIMETER WITH COSMIC MUONS VASKEN HAGOPIAN	362
Calibration Studies and the Investigation of Track Segments within Showers with an Imaging Hadronic Calorimeter Shaojun Lu	367
Test of a LYSO matrix with an electron beam between 100 and 500 MeV for KLOE-2 M. Cordelli, F. Happacher, M. Martini, S. Miscetti, I. Sarra, M. Schioppa, S. Stucci and G. Xu	372
The Low Energy Tagger for the KLOE-2 experiment D. Babusci, P. Ciambrone, G. Corradi, M. Iannarelli, S. Miscetti, C. Paglia, D. Tagnani, E. Turri, C. Bini, A. De Santis, G. De Zorzi, A. Di Domenico, S. Fiore and P. Gauzzi	377
Beam Test Results with a Highly Granular Analog Hadron Calorimeter Prototype (AHCAL) Sergey Morozov	382
VALIDATION OF THE HADRONIC CALIBRATION OF THE ATLAS CALORIMETER WITH TESTBEAM DATA CORRESPONDING TO THE PSEUDORAPIDITY RANGE 2.5 < \|η\| < 4.0 Guennadi Pospelov	387
ATLAS Liquid Argon Endcap Calorimeter R&D for sLHC P. Schacht	392
QCALT: a tile calorimeter for the KLOE-2 experiment M. Cordelli, G. Corradi, F. Happacher, M. Martini, S. Miscetti, C. Paglia, A. Saputi, I. Sarra, M. Schioppa and D. Tagnani	404
High Energy Physics Experiments
High Energy Physics Experiments	409
TRIGGER DATA QUALITY MONITORING IN THE CMS EXPERIMENT LORENZO AGOSTINO	411
Reconstruction and Identification of Electrons and Photons with the ATLAS Detector A. Ahmad	415
Low energy Weinberg angle determination by present and future accelerator neutrino experiments V. Antonelli	421
Performance of the Resistive Plate Chambers as LVL1 ATLAS muon trigger detectors M. Bianco	426
THE CMS ELECTROMAGNETIC CALORIMETER STATUS: PERFORMANCE WITH COSMIC AND FIRST LHC DATA CRISTINA BIINO	431
Muon reconstruction and selection at the last trigger level of the ATLAS experiment R. CRUPI	438
The ATLAS Beam Condition and Beam Loss Monitors I. Dolenc	443
The High Energy Tagger for γγ physics at KLOE2 F. Archilli, F. Gonnella, L. Iafolla, R. Messi, D. Badoni, D. Moricciani, D. Babusci, M. Beretta and L. Quintieri	449
Commissioning of the ATLAS Trigger and Data Acquisition System with Single Beam and Cosmic Rays R. Hauser	454
Performance of the readout electronics chain of the MICE Electron Muon Ranger D. Lietti, A. Berra, D. Bolognini, S. Hasan, A. Mattera, M. Prest, A. Blondel, F. Cadoux, J. S. Graulich, F. Masciocchi, H. Wisting, G. Giannini, D. Iugovaz, S. Reia, V. Mascagna and E. Vallazza	459
COMMISSIONING OF THE MUON TRACK RECONSTRUCTION IN THE ATLAS EXPERIMENT S. X. ODA	465
READINESS OF CMS COMPUTING FOR THE DATA TAKING M. Paganoni	470
The µ⁺ → e⁺γ decay from the MEG experiment: results from the first physics run A. Papa	474
QUARTIC - A PRECISE TIME-OF-FLIGHT COUNTER FOR THE ATLAS FORWARD PHYSICS PROJECT JAMES L. PINFOLD	484
READOUT OF THE LHCB MUON SYSTEM WITH THE TELL1 BOARD ANDREA SALAMON	491
Associative Memory design for Fast Tracker at LHC L. Sartori, P. Giannetti, M. Dell'Orso, E. Bossini, A. Annovi, M. Beretta and R. Tripiccione	496
ATLAS cosmic ray results Christian Schmitt	501
Optimization and Performance of the ATLAS Tau Trigger with Cosmics Data Mansoora Shamim	511
TRIGGER MONITORING IN ATLAS A. SIDOTI	516
THE TRACKER–MUON OPTICAL ALIGNMENT SYSTEM OF CMS M. Sobrón	521
ATLAS MUON SPECTROMETER: Status and Performance Yuta TAKAHASHI	526
Cosmic Muons Probing the CMS RPC System S. A. Tupputi	531
THE MUON CONDITIONS DATA MANAGEMENT: DATABASE ARCHITECTURE AND SOFTWARE INFRASTRUCTURE MONICA VERDUCCI	536
Radiation Damage
Radiation Damage	541
EFFECT OF GAMMA IRRADIATION ON ALKALI BORATE GLASSES BY EPR SPECTROSCOPY N. CATALLO, S. BACCARO, S. COLACICCHI, G. GUALTIERI, G. FERRARA and G. SHARMA	543
RADIATION EFFECTS ON POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES FOR DISTRIBUTED POWER SYSTEMS FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC CALORIMETERS C. ABBATE, G. BUSATTO, F. IANNUZZO, A. PORZIO, A. SANSEVERINO, F. VELARDI and S. BACCARO	548
Results from Silicon Photo-Multiplier neutron irradiation test R. Faccini, D. Pinci, W. Baldini, R. Calabrese, G. Cibinetto, A. Cotta Ramusino, R. Malaguti, M. Pozzati, M. Angelone and M. Pillon	555
INDUCED DAMAGES IN POWER MOSFETS AFTER HEAVY IONS IRRADIATION G. BUSATTO, F. IANNUZZO, A. PORZIO, A. SANSEVERINO, F. VELARDI and G. CURRÒ	560
IRRADIATION RESISTANCE OF NOVEL SCINTILLATING GLASS WITH SNO₂ AS EMISSION CENTER CE SHEN, S. BACCARO, YUWEN OU, SHUFEN WANG and GUORONG CHEN	565
COMPARISON OF MEASUREMENTS OF CHARGE TRANSFER INEFFICIENCIES IN A CCD WITH HIGH-SPEED COLUMN PARALLEL READOUT ANDRÉ SOPCZAK and KHALED BEKHOUCHE	572
HALL COEFFICIENT DEPENDENCE ON RESISTIVITY DOWN TO CRYOGENIC TEMPERATURES IN SILICON SAMPLES IRRADIATED WITH NEUTRONS AND ¹²C-IONS C. Consolandi, S. Pensotti, P. G. Rancoita and M. Tacconi	577
Performance of irradiated CMS forward pixel detector S. Taroni	585
Radiotherapy and Medical Instrumentations
Radiotherapy and Medical Instrumentations	591
MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS ON NEUTRON TRANSPORT AND ABSORBED DOSE IN TISSUE-EQUIVALENT PHANTOMS EXPOSED TO HIGH-FLUX EPITHERMAL NEUTRON BEAMS G. BARTESAGHI, G. GAMBARINI, A. NEGRI, M. CARRARA, J. BURIAN and L. VIERERBL	593
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF HADRONTHERAPY SAVERIO BRACCINI	598
FRICKE GEL DOSIMETERS FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF THE ANISOTROPY FUNCTION OF A HDR IR-192 BRACHYTHERAPY SOURCE M. CARRARA, S. TOMATIS, G. ZONCA, G. GAMBARINI, G. BARTESAGHI, C. TENCONI, A. CERROTTA and C. FALLAI	610
FUNDING 3D-CBS: CHANGING THE ROLE OF PET FOR CANCER SCREENING DARIO B. CROSETTO	615
A NEW METHOD TO MEASURE ¹⁰B UPTAKE IN LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA IN HOSPITAL BNCT E. M. Donegani, F. Basilico, D. Bolognini, P. Borasio, E. Capelli, P. Cappelletti, P. Chiari, M. Frigerio, S. Gelosa, G. Giannini, S. Hasan, A. Mattera, P. Mauri, A. F. Monti, A. Ostinelli, M. Prest, E. Vallazza and A. Zanini	621
NUCLEAR EMULSION FILM DETECTORS FOR PROTON RADIOGRAPHY: DESIGN AND TEST OF THE FIRST PROTOTYPE S. BRACCINI, A. EREDITATO, I. KRESLO, U. MOSER, C. PISTILLO, S. STUDER and P. SCAMPOLI	626
NON-CONTACT ELECTRON OPTICS SYSTEM FOR COINCIDENCE IMAGING ANALYSIS MARTIN KROUPA, JAN JAKUBEK and FRANTISEK KREJCI	631
AX-PET, A DEMONSTRATOR FOR PET IMAGING USING LONG AXIALLY ORIENTED SCINTILLATING CRYSTALS PAOLO BELTRAME, ANDRÉ BRAEM, VIVIANA FANTI, CHRISTIAN JORAM, THOMAS SCHNEIDER, JACQUES SÉGUINOT, CHIARA CASELLA, GÜNTHER DISSERTORI, LUBOMIR DJAMBAZOV, WERNER LUSTERMANN, FRANCESCA NESSI-TEDALDI, FELICITAS PAUSS, DIETRICH SCHINZEL, PAOLA SOLEVI, JOSEP F. OLIVER, MAGDALENA RAFECAS, RAFFAELE DE LEO, EUGENIO NAPPI, ENRICO CHESI, ERIC COCHRAN, KLAUS HONSCHEID, HARRIS KAGAN, ALAN RUDGE, SHANE SMITH, PETER WEILHAMMER, IAN JOHNSON, DIETER RENKER, NEAL CLINTHORNE, SAM HUH, ERLEND BOLLE, STEINAR STAPNES and FRANCO MEDDI	636
SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS OF HYBRID PHOTON COUNTING PIXEL DETECTORS T. Michel, G . Anton, P. Bartl, F. Bayer, M. Böhnel, J. Durst, U. Gebert, T. K. Rügheimer, P. Sievers and P. Takoukam-Talla	641
Software Applications
Software Applications	651
THE EVOLUTION OF FTK, A REAL-TIME TRACKER FOR HADRON COLLIDER EXPERIMENTS A. Annovi, M. Beretta, P. Laurelli, E. Bossini, V. Cavasinni, F. Crescioli, M. Dell'Orso, P. Giannetti, M. Piendibene, G. Punzi, F. Sarri, I. Vivarelli, G. Volpi, L. Sartori, A. Boveia, E. Brubaker, F. Canelli, M. Dunford, A. Kapliy, Y. K. Kim, C. Melachrinos, M. Shochet, J. Tuggle, H. DeBerg, A. McCarn, M. Neubauer, M. Franklin, C. Mills, N. Kimura, K. Yorita, J. Proudfoot, J. Zhang and R. Tripiccione	653
Offline Software for the TOTEM Experiment at the LHC V. Avati, M. Berretti, M. Besta, E. Brücken, P. Dadel, F. Ferro, F. Garcia, S. Giani, L. Grzanka, J. Hallila, P. Janhunen, J. Kašpar, G. Latino, R. Leszko, D. Mierzejewski, H. Niewiadomski, T. Novak, T. Nuotio, E. Oliveri, K. Österberg, F. Oljemark, S. Sadilov, M. Tuhkanen, T. Vihanta, M. Zalewski, Z. Zhang and J. Welti	658
Classifying Data for Scientific Visualization via Fiber Bundles Werner Benger	666
The Data Quality Monitoring of the CMS Tracker L. BORRELLO	676
MARS - CheObs ed. — A flexible Software Framework for future Cherenkov Telescopes T. Bretz and D. Dorner	681
Components-based software in the HARP PS214 experiment at CERN M. G. Catanesi, E. Radicioni, S. Giani, I. Papadopoulos, J. Panman, P. Arce, M. Ellis and J. J. Gómez–Cadenas	688
GEANT4-BASED APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT FOR NIEL CALCULATION IN THE SPACE RADIATION ENVIRONMENT M. J. BOSCHINI, C. CONSOLANDI, M. GERVASI, S. GIANI, D. GRANDI, V. IVANCHENKO and P. G. RANCOITA	698
The Planck/LFI data processing: real-time analysis, data management and scientific workflows M. Frailis, A. Zacchei, M. Maris, N. Morisset, R. Rohlfs, M. Meharga, P. Binko, M. Türler, S. Galeotta, S. R. Lowe, D. Maino, G. Maggio, F. Pasian, F. Perrotta, M. Sandri, T. Ensslin, M. Reinecke, J. Knoche, J. Rachen, W. Hovest, G. Giardino and M. Bremer	709
NEUTRON PRODUCTION IN THE LUNAR SUBSURFACE FROM GALACTIC COSMIC RAY NUCLEI SHUYA OTA, LEMBIT SIHVER, SHINGO KOBAYASHI, NAOYUKI YAMASHITA and NOBUYUKI HASEBE	719
Development of Web Tools for the automatic Upload of Calibration Data into the CMS Condition Data Salvatore Di Guida, Vincenzo Innocente and Antonio Pierro	724
Online Software and DAQ system of the TOTEM experiment at the LHC E. Radicioni	729
Space Experiments and Heliosphere
Space Experiments and Heliosphere	739
THE ANTI MATTER SPECTROMETER (AMS-02): A PARTICLE PHYSICS DETECTOR IN SPACE R. BATTISTON	741
REENTRANT HELIOSPHERIC PARTICLES IN CASE OF SHOCKS AMPLIFIED MAGNETIC FIELDS P. BOBIK, K. KUDELA, M. BOSCHINI, D. GRANDI, M. GERVASI, P. G. RANCOITA and S. DELLA TORRE	751
NEUCAL: a prototype detector for electron/hadron discrimination through neutron measurement L. BONECHI, O. ADRIANI, R. D'ALESSANDRO, P. SONA, G. SORICHETTI, P. SPILLANTINI, S. BOTTAI, M. GRANDI, P. PAPINI, S. RICCIARINI, G. SGUAZZONI, E. VANNUCCINI, A. VICIANI and G. CASTELLINI	755
DRIFT MODELS AND POLAR FIELD FOR COSMIC RAYS PROPAGATION IN THE HELIOSPHERE P. Bobik, G. Boella, M. J. Boschini, S. Della Torre, M. Gervasi, D. Grandi, K. Kudela, S. Pensotti and P. G. Rancoita	760
First year observation of Geminga pulsar with Fermi-LAT F. Gargano, D. Doumora and M. Razzano	765
RELATIONS BETWEEN HIGH ENERGY ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS, COSMIC RAY PHYSICS AND SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS FRANK JANSEN and JÖRG BEHRENS	770
ON THE RELATIONS OF COSMIC RAYS TO SPACE WEATHER STUDIES K. KUDELA and P. BOBIK	780
OVERVIEW OF THE NUCLEAR COMPTON TELESCOPE (NCT) ZONG-KAI LIU, YUAN-HANN CHANG, WEI-CHE HUNG, STEVEN E. BOGGS, MARK S. BANDSTRA, ERIC E. BELLM, DANIEL PEREZ-BECKER, CORNELIA B. WUNDERER, ANDREAS ZOGLAUER, MARK AMMAN, PAUL N. LUKE, HSIANG-KUANG CHANG, JENG-LUN CHIU, JAU-SHIAN LIANG, CHIH-HSUN LIN, MINGHUEY A. HUANG, RAY-SHINE RUN, SHUENG-JUNG CHIANG and PIERRE JEAN	785
THE FERMI GAMMA-RAY SPACE TELESCOPE: PERFORMANCE AND RESULTS AT THE 1-YEAR MILESTONE R. RANDO	790
STUDY OF HIGH ENERGY COSMIC RAYS WITH THE SPARSE VERY LARGE AIR SHOWER ARRAY ALTA/CZELTA K. Smolek, J. Čermák, S. Pospíšil, P. Přidal, J. Smejkal, I. Štekl, F. Blaschke, P. Lichard, J. Pinfold, R. Soluk and V. Vícha	800
Tracking Devices
Tracking Devices	807
Performance of the CMS Muon System with Cosmic Rays N. AMAPANE	809
Development of a GEM-TPC prototype Heinz Angerer, Reinhard Beck, Martin Berger, Felix Böhmer, K.-T. Brinkmann, Paul Bühler, Michael Carnegie, Sverre Dørheim, Laura Fabbietti, Chr. Funke, F. Cusanno, Jörg Hehner, Andreas Heinz, Markus Henske, Christian Höppner, David Kaiser, Bernhard Ketzer, Igor Konorov, Jochen Kunkel, Michael Lang, Johann Marton, Sebastian Neubert, Stephan Paul, Alexander Schmah, Christian Schmidt, Roman Schmitz, Sandra Schwab, Daniel Soyk, Ken Suzuki, Ulrike Thoma, Maxence Vandenbroucke, Bernd Voss, Dieter Walter, Quirin Weitzel, Eberhard Widmann, Alexander Winnebeck, Lisa Wörner, H.-G. Zaunick, Xiaodong Zhang and Johann Zmeskal	814
The Commissioning and Performance of the Outer Tracker for LHCb J. Blouw	819
Alignment of the ATLAS Inner Detector Tracking System B. Cooper	824
Recent developments of MicroPattern Gaseous Detectors technologies G. Croci	829
READOUT ELECTRONICS OF THE NA62 GIGATRACKER SYSTEM G. DELLACASA, S. GARBOLINO, F. MARCHETTO, S. MARTOIU, G. MAZZA, A. RIVETTI, R. WHEADON, A. CECCUCCI, M. FIORINI, P. JARRON, J. KAPLON, A. KLUGE, M. NOY, P. RIEDLER, S. TIURANIEMI, V. CARASSITI, A. COTTA RAMUSINO, S. CHIOZZI, F. PETRUCCI, E. CORTINA and E. MARTIN	834
STATUS OF THE CYLINDRICAL-GEM PROJECT FOR THE KLOE-2 INNER TRACKER A. BALLA, G. BENCIVENNI, S. CERIONI, P. CIAMBRONE, E. DE LUCIA, D. DOMENICI, G. FELICI, M. GATTA, M. JACEWICZ, M. PISTILLI, L. QUINTIERI, G. DE ROBERTIS, N. LACALAMITA, R. LIUZZI, F. LODDO, A. RANIERI, V. VALENTINO, G. MORELLO and M. SCHIOPPA	839
The upgrade of the CMS Tracker for Super-LHC F. Hartmann	845
A near beam silicon microstrip tracking system to test the crystal based collimation S. Hasan, A. Berra, D. Bolognini, S. Grigioni, A. Mattera, M. Prest, M. Veronelli, I. Rashevskaya and E. Vallazza	853
BEAM TEST RESULTS FOR FINE PITCHED MULTIGEOMETRY SILICON STRIP DETECTORS W. KIESENHOFER, T. BERGAUER, Z. DOLEZAL, M. DRAGICEVIC, Z. DRASAL, M. FRIEDL, S. HÄNSEL, I. HRUBEC, C. IRMLER, M. KRAMMER and P. KVASNICKA	858
Test Beam Measurements with 3D Silicon Strip Detectors M. KÖHLER, S. ECKERT, K. JAKOBS, S. KÜHN, G. PAHN, U. PARZEFALL, G.-F. DALLA BETTA, A. ZOBOLI, M. BOSCARDIN, S. RONCHIN, N. ZORZI, J. HÄRKÖNEN, P. LUUKKA, T. MÄENPÄÄ, H. MOILANEN, R. BATES, S. HOUSTON and C. PARKES	864
First Alignment of the Complete CMS Silicon Tracking Detector A. Lucaroni	869
THE ALIGNMENT OF THE ALICE INNER TRACKING SYSTEM: PRESENT STATUS IN VIEW OF THE FIRST LHC P-P DATA TAKING M. LUNARDON	874
OPERATION EXPERIENCE WITH THE ALICE SILICON PIXEL DETECTOR WITH COSMICS AND FIRST BEAMS A. Mastroserio	879
Performance of the LHCb Silicon Tracker with first data M. Needham	884
Commissioning of the ATLAS Pixel Detector with Cosmics Ray Data V. PEREZ-REALE	889
LEPIX: MONOLITHIC DETECTORS FOR PARTICLE TRACKING IN STANDARD VERY DEEP SUBMICRON CMOS TECHNOLOGIES A. RIVETTI, M. CASELLE, K. KLOUKINAS, W. SNOEYS, P. CHALMET, H. MUGNIER, J. ROUSSET and A. DOROKHOV	894
RESULTS FROM THE FIRST BEAM-INDUCED RECONSTRUCTED TRACKS IN THE LHCb VERTEX LOCATOR E. Rodrigues	899
Commissionning of the CMS Pixel detector with Cosmic Rays Romain Rougny	904
THE ATLAS TRACKER UPGRADE: SHORT STRIPS DETECTORS FOR THE sLHC Unnila Soldevila, M. Miñano, C. Garcia, C. Lacasta and S. Marti	910
BACK MATTER	917
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