Collaborations

a. official

CERN-RD51

DARWIN Dark-matter experiment

b. academic

          Present

  • Noble-liquid detectors for dark-matter searches; with Lior Arazi (Ben Gurion Univ), DARWIN & XENON members (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XENON) at Weizmann Institute: Ran Budnik and Hagar Landsman http://www.weizmann.ac.il/particle/xenon/  
  • Fast-Neutrons and Gammas imaging detectors; in collaboration with Lior Arazi (Ben Gurion Univ), Elad Caspi & Itamar Israelashvili (NRC Negev, Israel), Marco Cortesi (MSU-National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, USA) and Volker Dangendorf  (PTB Braunschweig / Germany).
  • Slow-ion detectors; in collaboration with Lior Arazi (Ben Gurion University) & Volker Dangendorf  (PTB Braunschweig / Germany). 
  • Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors; with Leszek Ropelewski (CERN RD51) http://gdd.web.cern.ch/GDD/, Shikma Bressler (WIS) http://www.weizmann.ac.il/particle/Bressler/, Lior Arazi (Ben Gurion Univ), Joaquim dos Santos (Coimbra Univ. Portugal), Joao Veloso (Univ. Aveiro, Portugal) and Marco Cortesi (MSU-National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, USA).
  • Sampling detectors for digital hadron calorimetry; with Andy White (Univ. of Texas at Arlington), Shikma Bressler http://www.weizmann.ac.il/particle/Bressler/ & Lior Arazi (Ben Gurion Univ), Eraldo Oliveri (CERN) and Max Chefdeville (LAPP Annecy).

          Past

  • Detector Physics; with Georges Charpak (CERN), Fabio Sauli (CERN, RD28), Leszek Ropelewski (CERN, RD28), Jerry Vavra (SLAC), Dave Anderson (Fermilab), Vladimir Peskov (CERN), Armando Policarpo (Coimbra), Stan Majewski (CEBAF), Alexei Buzulutskov & Lev Shekhtman (BINP Novosibirsk), Francois Piuz (CERN, RD26), Dominique Thers (Nantes), Moshe Gai (UCON) and many others...
  • Prostate Cancer Detection: With David Vartski (SOREQ NRC); Jacob Ramon, Edi Fridman & Gil Raviv (Sheba MC); Eviatar Moriel & Monica Husar (Kaplan MC) and Rachel Chechik, Marco Cortesi & Sana Shilstein (Weizmann),
  • Nanodosimetry detectors; with Reinhards Schulte & Vladimir Bashkirov (Loma Linda Medical Center), Paolo Colautti (Legnaro), Bernd Grosswendt (PTB Braunschweig) and Guy Garty, Corine Leloup, Sergei Shchemelinin & Rachel Chechik (Weizmann).
  • Cherenkov Ring Imaging; Tom Ypsilantis (CERN), Francois Piuz (CERN RD26), , Peter Glassel & Hans Specht (Heidelberg CERES), Eugenio Nappi (Bari; CERN RD26); Rachel Chechik, Itshak Tserruya (Weizmann, CERES) and many more...
  • Search for Quark Gluopn Plasma: With Hans Specht, Peter Glassel, Armin Shon & Herman Ries (Heidelberg, CERES) and with Rachel Chechik, Itshak Tserruya, Zeev Fraenkel, Alexander Milov et al. (Weizmann).
  • Search for "Strange Matter"; Sergei Polikanov (GSI), Gunther Hermann (Mainz), Norbert Trautmann (Mainz), Michael Brugger (Mainz), Klaus Lutsenkirchen (mainz) and with Zeev Fraenkel, Rachel Chechik & Uzy Smilansky (Weizmann). 
  • Delivery of contrast agents for enhanced x-ray radiography: With Avraham Warshawsky, Bilhaa Schechter, Avi Shanzer, Michal Neeman, Rachel Chechik & Zvi Paltiel (Weizmann).
  • Digital beta-autoradiography: With Rachel Chechik, Udi Dafni, Zvi Paltiel (Weizmann)
  • Low-pressure Heavy Ion Imaging Detectors: with Gabi Goldring, Zeev Vager, Zeev Fraenkel, Itshak Tserruya, Nachum Zwang and Rachel Chechik (Weizmann).