Photosensor Development at UC Davis
For Homeland Security, Nonproliferation, Particle Astrophysics, Proton Decay, Neutrino Physics, Dark Mater

Daniel Ferenc and Eckart Lorenz


UC Davis News - articles abut our projects:


UC Davis News:   Spinoffs From Astronomy to Bomb Detection

UC Davis News:   MAGIC Telescope Finds Microquasar


Aticles from Press (specifically about our UC Davis group):
(New Scientist, Homeland Defense & Security Monitor, PHYSORG, POLITECHNICAL INSTITUTE, ADVANCED NANOTECHNOLOGY, What's New at IEEE in Signal Processing, etc.)


Homeland Defense & Security Monitor, Vol.8, July 17 2006 Page7:  UC-DAVIS SCIENTISTS DEVELOP METHOD
TO REDUCE COST OF NUKE DETECTORS


NEW SCIENTIST MAGAZINE:
From issue 2556 of New Scientist magazine, 20 June 2006, page 29: Astronomy detectors could become nuke hunters

ADVANCED NANOTECHNOLOGY: June 20, 2006 Gamma ray telescope could be used to spot plutonium (title not exactly true)

Traveling-through-the-Wire: MAGIC finds microquasar

PHYSORG .com Journal Article, June 2, 2006:   MAGIC Telescope Finds Microquasar

PHYSORG.com Journal Article, August 23, 2005;   An older press release abut the first simultaneous capture of a Gamma-Ray Burst in high energy spectrum by MAGIC, together with SWIFT at low eneries

IEEE, What's New at IEEE in Signal Processing, June, Volume 7, Number 6 2006:
MAGIC TELESCOPE DISCOVERS MICROQUASAR WITHIN EARTH'S GALAXY

POLITECHNICAL INSTITUTE - 'Spying Out Nukes'


Talks - coming soon:

D. Ferenc, Applied Antineutrino Physics Workshop

D. Ferenc, Recent Results from the MAGIC Gamma-ray Observatory,  9th Meeting of the AAS High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD)



Recent talks:

D. Ferenc and E. Lorenz, talk at IMAGING 2006 Stockholm, June 23-27 2006 (pdf)

D. Ferenc and E. Lorenz - SORMA XI presentation (pdf)

The 11th Symposium on Radiation Measurements and Applications, May 23-25, 2006, Ann Arbor, MI, USA (SORMA XI), May 23-25, 2006.


Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation <>24–31 May 2006, Orlando, Florida, USA
SPIE talk: Danie Ferenc, "The MAGIC Gamma-Ray Observatory"

SPIE talk: Daniel Ferenc, "Novel Photon detectors for Neutrino Astronomy"


D. Ferenc - presentation (pdf)
HUSEP meeting - Henderson Underground Science and Engineering, at Stony Brook, May 3-7 2006

Eckar Lorenz, talk at the Elba Conference, Italy (pdf)

Eckart Lorenz- talk at LIGHT 06 Eilat, Israel  (pdf)

Eckart Lorenz for Daniel Ferenc- talk at LIGHT 06 Eilat (pdf)

D. Ferenc - talk (pdf)
Neutrino Sciences 2005, Neutrino Geophysics, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 14-16, 2005


Patents:

U.S. Patent (ReFerence flat-panel photosensor)

U.S. Patent (SIMPLE space camera)

U.S. Patent pending (ArcaLux flat-panel photosensor concept)  - currently available only with nondisclosure agreement




Recent papers:

SPRINGER, Earth, Moon, and Planets, Review article by D. Ferenc and E. Lorenz, 'Novel photon detectors for neutrino detectors and telescopes,' ( pdf)

The novel Light Amplifier concept ARTICLE
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment,
Volume 567, Issue 1 , 1 November 2006, Pages 166-171
Daniel Ferenc, Daniel Kranich, Alvin Laille and Eckart Lorenz
Science Direct - link


A new method for vacuum sealing of flat-panel photosensors ARTICLE
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment,
Volume 567, Issue 1 , 1 November 2006, Pages 205-208
Daniel Ferenc, Andrew Chang, Leah Johnson, Daniel Kranich, Alvin Laille and Eckart Lorenz
Science Direct - link



Development of novel photon detectors at UC Davis ARTICLE
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume 553, Issues 1-2, 11 November 2005, Pages 165-171
D. Ferenc, D. Kranich, A. Laille and E. Lorenz
Abstract | Full Text + Links | PDF (309 K)

and sme other papers:

The MAGIC gamma-ray observatory ARTICLE
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume 553, Issues 1-2, 11 November 2005, Pages 274-281
Daniel Ferenc and for the MAGIC Collaboration...
Abstract | Full Text + Links | PDF (597 K)

Commissioning and first tests of the MAGIC telescope ARTICLE
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume 518, Issues 1-2, 1 February 2004, Pages 188-192
C. Baixeras , D. Bastieri , C. Bigongiari , O. Blanch , G. Blanchot , R. Bock , T. Bretz , A. Chilingarian , J. A. Coarasa , E. Colombo et al.
Abstract | Full Text + Links | PDF (225 K)

Evaluation of a new high QE photomultiplier for air Cherenkov telescopes ARTICLE
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume 518, Issues 1-2, 1 February 2004, Pages 615-618
J. Gebauer , D. Ferenc , D. Kranich , E. Lorenz , M. Merck and R. Mirzoyan
Abstract | Full Text + Links | PDF (379 K)