Research team and collaborators
- UCD: Professor Ronan McNulty, Associate Professor Luis León Vintró, Adjunct Professor Seán Cournane, Bill Kamtchou (student), Naomi Raab (student). Initiated and coordinated LGAD/Medipix projects. Analysed data.
- University of Kansas: Professor Christophe Royon, Dr Nicola Minafra, Tomasso Isidori (student). Designed and operated LGAD detectors.
- Luke's Hospital: Professor Brendan McClean, Adjunct Professor Pat McCavana, Dr Christina Zacharatou. Operated LINAC.
- Vincent's University Hospital: Adjunct Professor Seán Cournane. Initiated Compton camera project.
- Beacon clinic: Chief medical physicist, Luke Rock. Data analyst.
- TUD: Dr Aaron Mac Raighne. Previous member of Medipix collaboration. Operated Medipix device.
- University of Glasgow: Professor Val O'Shea. Lead developer and member of Medipix collaboration. Lent and operated Medipix device.
- IFJ Krakow: Dr Jan Swakon. Head of cyclotron operation at Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Science. Operated cyclotron beam.
- AGH Krakow: Professor Leszek Grzanka, Christopher Misan (student), Tomek Nowak (student). Computer scientists responsible for data structures.
Funding
Research was initiated in 2017 with the School of Physics supporting collaborators at the University of Kansas to visit Dublin to work on LGAD sensors. A UCD Seed Funding award in March 2018 allowed the team to purchase a Medipix detector. The LGAD work led to the award of a grant from Eurolabs under an EU Horizon grant to install the detectors in Krakow. The PhD work of Bill Kamtchou is paid for by a SIRAT award from the UCD School of Physics. The PhD work of Naomi Raab was paid for by an IRC award.