Dear Presenters and Participants,
This Forum aims at providing an occasion for discussion and reflection on future detectors
for synchrotron radiation applications, both for XFELs and storage rings. This initiative
is very much motivated by the fact that although there are conferences of wider scope that
also cover this area up to certain point, they are always adapted to the expectations of
the detector developers and used primarily as showcases of their last projects and results.
Such approach is very good for dissemination of information but the objective of this new
Forum is also to encourage discussion and debate on specific areas and technologies from
the perspective and the interest of the photon source facilities.
The organizing committee hopes that the selected topics and invited speakers will foster
discussions and technical exchanges that will contribute more efficiently to draw the strategy
for future detectors. This is more and more important as the technical requirements
as well as the level of available resources for detector development is increasing in parallel
to the construction of the new generations of photon sources, both free-electron lasers and
higher brilliance storage rings.
As we mentioned before, both the topics and all the attendants including the speakers are being
selected and invited by the organizing committee. This is the first edition of this Forum and
we will focus only on some particular areas, we will not try to cover all relevant topics.
If the workshop is successful we expect to organize it periodically so that we will have
the opportunity to address other matters in subsequent editions.
Some of the areas we plan to address specifically are
- new detector challenges coming from applications enabled by the new photon sources
- CMOS image sensor technology for HDR soft and hard X-ray detectors
- high spatial resolution detectors for RIXS, coherent scattering and other applications
- detection of high energy X-rays
- readout schemes for high dynamic range hybrid pixel detectors
- novel readout concepts with emphasis on sparse readout for time resolved detectors
We expect a participation of about 40 people, primarily detector experts coming from light
sources or development labs/companies and a few application scientists with good background
in detectors. In order to cover partially the organization expenses, including also the meals,
there will be some moderate but not negligible registration fees. You will find the practical
information on this web site. With this scheme the workshop will very much rely on the contribution
of highly motivated speakers and participants able to take in charge their own expenses and
who are already part of the photon science detector community or who are interested in getting
closer to it and contributing to a collective reflection on possible directions for future detectors.
We hope that you share our interest in such a workshop and contribute to it with your talk and discussion.
Thank you very much in advance for your interest, and hope to see you soon in Japan.
Takaki Hatsui (RIKEN SPring-8 Center)
Pablo Fajardo (ESRF - The European Synchrotron)
Gabriella Carini (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
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