The
International Workshops on Low Temperature Detectors are held every two years
and provide an International Forum for assessing the status of the knowledge,
developments and applications of cryogenic radiation and particle detectors.
The
rapid technical developments of the last years and the outstanding features
make these detectors very attractive in a variety of fields from basic to
applied sciences. Therefore, one of the aims of this workshop is to bring
together detector's scientists and researchers from various fields in order
to outline the future areas of usage.
Dark
Matter searches, precise measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background,
X-ray Astronomy and many aspects of the Neutrino Physics are the main hot
topics in which the cryogenic detectors are playing or can play a significant
role in the near future.
Latest
developments open new perspectives in the Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy
(EDXRS) as an analysis tool with Microbeams and in several Spectroscopic Methods
at the Synchrotron Radiation. Applications to Microcrystalline Structural
Analysis by means of the Beta Decay Fine Structure (BEFS), Biomolecular Mass
and Structural Analysis, Biomedics, Archaeometrics, Environment and Industry
are under study.
The
topics include:
- Low
Temperature Detector Physics and Technology
- Signal
Read-out and Analysis
- Sub-Kelvin
Refrigerators for Friendly Use
- Rare
Events Detection In Underground Laboratory: Dark Matter, Double Beta Decay,
Rare Nuclear Decays, Solar Neutrino Detection
- Neutrino
Physics: Mass, Magnetic Moment, Nuclear Coherent Scattering at neutrino
beam
- X-Ray
Astronomy: incoming and future Missions for the study of AGN, Elemental
Abundance, Bulk Motions, Gamma Ray Burst, Interstellar and Intergalactic
Medium
- UV
to IR Astronomy: single photon spectrophotometry for faint object
- Bolometers
for Cosmic Microwave Background
- Energy
Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy at the Synchrotron Radiation and at the Microbeams
- New
Methods and new Tools for Analysis in Material Science, Condensed Matter
Physics
- Atomic
and Plasma Physics