Charged particle identification at the PANDA experiment will be performed over a wide range of momenta by Čerenkov detectors. One option to identify higher momentum charged particles under small polar angles could be the use of silica aerogels as radiator. Simultaneously, an aerogel Čerenkov counter is being designed for the Kaos spectrometer at the Mainz Microtron MAMI for the discrimination b...

For hypernuclear experiments, which are currently performed at GSI (HypHI) or proposed for FAIR (PANDA) and for MAMI (A1), an unambiguous kaon identification is essential. An aerogel Čerenkov counter was designed for the KAOS spectrometer at the Mainz Microtron MAMI for the discrimination between kaons and pions of momenta p ≥ 1GeV/c. Before the construction of the final detector a smaller prot...

A comprehensive set of measurements and calculations has been conducted to investigate the accuracy of the Dose Planning Method (DPM) Monte Carlo code for electron beam dose calculations in heterogeneous media. Measurements were made using 10 MeV and 50 MeV minimally scattered, uncollimated electron beams from a racetrack microtron. Source distributions for the Monte Carlo calculations were rec...

many of the video processing algorithms cannot be implemented in real time on general computers, due to their computational complexity. for an efficient implementation, a custom hardware that can be reconfigured for the algorithm, is used. in this paper a new acceleration hardware based on fpga elements is proposed. this hardware can be adapted with the processing algorithm through fpga design ...