INFN Sezione di Trieste

THE WORKSHOP

The Sixth Workshop on Ring Imaging Cherenkov detectors (RICH2007) will be held in Trieste, Italy, 15-20 October 2007. The workshop will focus on the "state of the art" and the future developments in Cherenkov light imaging techniques for applications in High Energy Physics, Nuclear Physics and Astroparticle Physics. Exotic application of Cherenkov radiation and alternative particle identification methods will also be discussed.

The previous Workshops of this series took place in Bari, Italy (1993); Uppsala, Sweden (1995); Ein Gedi, Israel (1998); Pylos, Greece (2002); Playa del Carmen, Mexico (2004).

The conference is organized in plenary sessions of invited talks and contributed talks, and poster presentations. The proceedings will be published in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, as the proceedings of the previous Workshops.

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

The list of topics includes:

·   Cherenkov light imaging in particle and nuclear physics experiments

·   Cherenkov detectors in astroparticle physics

·   Novel Cherenkov Imaging Techniques

·   Photon detection for Cherenkov counters

·   Technological aspects of Cherenkov detectors

·   Pattern recognition and data analysis

·   Exotic applications of Cherenkov radiation.

The scientific programme consists of eight half-day scientific sessions.

The following invited talks have been confirmed:

·   Advantages and limitations of the RICH technique for particle ID.
B. Ratcliff (SLAC)

·   Review of relevant Cherenkov imaging devices in particle/nuclear experiments currently running, under construction, and planned.
D. Websdale (Imperial College)

·   Review of relevant Cherenkov imaging devices in astroparticle experiments currently running, under construction, and planned.
E. Lorentz (ETH)

·   Review of the analysis techniques currently in use, including a comparison of the measured/expected particle ID performance in different experiments.
G. Wilkinson (University of Oxford)

·   Status and perspectives of vacuum-based photon detectors for single photon detection.
T. Gys (CERN)

·   Status and perspectives of solid state photon detectors for single photon detection.
J. Haba (KEK)

·   Status and perspectives of gaseous photon detectors for single photon detection.
R. Chechik (Weizmann Institute)

·   Detection of Cherenkov radiation of very long wavelength (radio region).
G. Varner (University of Hawaii)

·   Workshop highlights.
S. Dalla Torre (INFN-Trieste)

RICH2007-NIM A Young Scientists' Award

The "RICH2007-NIM A Young Scientists' Award" will be granted at RICH2007. The award is sponsored by the journal Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A; it consists in an amount of 1,000 €.

Eligibility criteria:
1.  maximum age of 32 years at the time of the workshop
2.  no permanent position
3.  contributions to RICH detectors, as discussed in a talk or a poster presented at RICH2007

IMPORTANT: The young scientists presenting a talk or a poster at RICH2007, are kindly requested to send an e-mail to the Conference Secretariat (rich2007@ts.infn.it) by 1 October 2007 indicating their birth date and their present position: these data are needed to include them among the eligible persons.