Collaborations
and strong consultancy links have been established with many
institutes for the development of the gas detector technologies for
particle tracking, x-ray imaging, gaseous photomultipliers, plasma
diagnostics, X-ray detection in space.
Recently, a line of research started aiming at the detection and
localization of single photoelectrons for use in RICH counters. The
detectors make use of a CsI photocathode deposited on the first GEM
in a cascade; the readout is implemented on a matrix of mm-wide
hexagonal pads, interconnected along three projections (HEXABOARD),
a technology developed by the group.
Several CERN patents cover the GEM operation and the applications
for particle tracking and in biomedical fields, and licenses are
being granted for commercial exploitation.
Reached age limits in March 2006, retired from CERN. Continues
the research activity as CERN Visitor. Associated to theTERA
Foundation he is contributing to the deign of diagnostic imaging
systems for monitoring the dose distribution in proton- and ion-beam
radiotheraphy at the Italian Hadrotherapy Center (CNAO)
in Pavia. In April 2008, starting of the project AQUA (Advanced
QUality Assurance), contributing to the development of a Proton Range
Radiography instrument (in collaboration with CNAO) and of an advanced
system of Time-of-Flight measurement for Positron Emission Tomography
(TOF-PET) in the framework of the European FP-7 project ENVISION.
Member of the RD51 collaboration (Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors)
SCHOOLS AND WORKSHOPS
Main Organizer and Director of the "ICFA Schools on Instrumentation
in High Energy Physics": Rio de Janeiro (1990), Trieste (1991),
Bombay (1993).
Co-organizer of dedicated workshops: International Workshops on
Micro-Strip Gas Chambers (Legnaro, Oct. 1994, Lyon 1995);
International Workshop on Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors (Orsay June
1999); Giornate di Studio sui Rivelatori (Torino 1996-2000).
Organizer of the Short Courses at the Lyon 2000 IEEE Nuclear Science
Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (Lyon October 2000)
Convener of the Satellite Workshop "Micro-Pattern Detectors for Time
Projection Chambers", 2003 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and
Medical Imaging Conference (Portland, October 15-20 2003)
Chairman of the IEEE-Nuclear Science Symposium (Roma 2004)
Convener, Gas Detectors - IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium
(Honolulu, 2007)
LECTURES ON INSTRUMENTATION AT UNIVERSITIES:
Genova (1989), Bologna (1990), Milano (1991, 1992, 1993), Grenoble
(1994 and 1995), Torino (1995), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale
Lausanne (1996); Northeastern University Boston (1997 and 1998);
Heidelberg University (2000).
Milano-La Bicocca University: Rivelatori di Radiazioni 2 (2003-2008)
TRIUMF Summer Institute, Vancouver, Canada: Course on Gaseous
Detectors (July 9-13, 2007).
INVITED TOPICAL SEMINARS:
Aachen University (16.12.97)
CERN (September 1998)
INFN Legnaro (28.9.99)
Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble (20.1.99)
GSI Darmstadt (1.12.99)
DESY Hamburg (24.11.99)
Max Planck Institute München (08.02.00)
Università la Bicocca, Milano (Aprile 2004)
Karlsruhe University (23 July 2004)
MIT Boston (19 April 2005): Developments and Applications of the Gas
Electron Multiplier
Yale University (20 April 2005): Developments and Applications of
the Gas Electron Multiplier
Università di Napoli (16-17 May 2005): Osservare particelle per
fisica e medicina.
DESY, Hamburg (8 July 2005): Gas Electron Multiplier Detectors:
Performances and Applications In Particle Physics and Other Fields.
Tsinghua University (Beijing): Invited seminars on detectors for HEP
(September 12-14, 2005).
Aachen University: Development and Applications of the Gas Electron
Multiplier (Aachen, Germany, January 31, 2006).
Tokyo University, Japan: Invited seminar (30 March 2007).
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. Invited Seminar: Developments and
Applications of the Gas Electron Multiplier (2 April 2007).
KEK, Tsukuba: Principles of Gas Detectors (March 14, 2009).
CERN: GEM Detectors, 20 Years of Developments and Applications
(October 21, 2016).
PUBLICATIONS
Author or co-author of over 200 articles in major scientific
journals
For a complete list and downloads of recent publications see PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS:
Instrumentation in High Energy Physics, F. Sauli ed. (Word
Scientific, Singapore 1992).
Instrumentation in Elementary Particle Physics, J. Anjos, D.
Hartill, F. Sauli and M. Sheaff, ed. (Word Scientific, Singapore
1992).
Georges Charpak: Seminal Papers, F. Sauli, Editor
(Elsevier, 2011).
F. Sauli: Gaseous Radiation Detectors: Fundamentals and
Applications (Cambridge University Press, June 2014).
F. Sauli, Editor: A Rich Legacy. Special Issue in memory of T.
Ypsilantis (Nucl. Instr. Methods A970, August 1, 2020).
F. Sauli: Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors, Principles of
Operation and Applications (World Scientific, 2021).
MAJOR
REVIEW PUBLICATIONS:
F. Sauli, Principles of Operation of Multiwire Proportional and
Drift Chambers, CERN 77-09 (1977).
G. Charpak and F. Sauli, The multi-step Avalanche Chamber, Phys.
Letters 78B (1978) 523.
G. Charpak and F. Sauli, High-Resolution Electronic Particle
Detectors, Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 34 (1984) 285.
F. Sauli, Applications of gaseous detectors in astrophysics,
medicine and biology, Nucl. Instrum. and Meth. A323 (1992) 1.
F. Sauli, High rate, position-sensitive radiation detectors: recent
developments and applications in particle physics, medicine and
biology. Invited paper at the Eight meeting of the division of
particles and fields of the APS, Albuquerque NM August 2-6, 1994.
F. Sauli, Applications of gaseous particle detectors in physics and
medicine. Invited talk at the CAM94 Physics Meeting, Cancun, Mexico
26-30 September 1994.
F. Sauli, Potentials of advanced gas detectors for health physics,
Rad. Protection Dosimetry 61 (1995) 29.
F. Sauli, Gas detectors: recent developments and future
perspectives, Nucl. Instrum. and Meth. A419 (1998) 189.
F. Sauli, Development of high rate MSGCs: overview of the results
from RD-28, Nucl. Physics B (Proc. Suppl.) 61B(1998)236.
F. Sauli, Recent developments and applications of fast
position-sensitive gas detectors. Nucl. Instrum. and Meth. A422
(1999) 257.
F. Sauli and A. Sharma, Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors, Ann. Review
of Nuclear and Particle Science 49 (1999).
F. Sauli, Gas Detectors: Achievements and Trends, Nuclear Instrum.
and Meth. A461 (2001) 47.
F. Sauli, Fundamental understanding of aging processes: review of
the workshop results, Int. Workshop on Aging Phenomena in Gas
Detectors (DESY 2001). Nucl. Instrum. and Meth. A515(2003)358.
F. Sauli, From Bubble Chambers to electronic systems: 25 years of
evolution in particle detectors at CERN (1979-2004). Pysics reports
403(2004)471.
F. Sauli, Progress with the Gas Electron Multiplier, Nucl. Instrum.
and Meth. A522(2004)93
F. Sauli, Novel Cherenkov photon detectors, Nucl. Instrum. and Meth.
A553(2005)18.
F. Sauli, Recent Topics on gaseous detectors, Nucl. Instr. and
Meth. A623(2010)29
F. Sauli, Gas Electron Multiplier GEM) Detectors: Principles of
Operation and Applications. Comprehensive Biomedical Physics Vol. 6
(2014) M. Danielsson, Ed.
F. Sauli, The gas electron multiplier (GEM): operating
principles and application, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A805(2016)2-24.
FORMER
INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATORS
David Anderson, FERMILAB, Batavia Ill (USA)
Amos Breskin, Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Rehovot (Israel)
Stan Majewski, Jefferson Lab, Newport News VA (USA)
Jerry Va’vra, SLAC (Stanford USA)
Armando Policarpo (Coimbra University, Portugal)
Thomas Ypsilantis, Collège de France, Paris and CERN
Gian Antonio Della Mea, INFN Legnaro (Padova, Italy)
Lev Shekhtmann and Alexei Buzulutskov BINP Novosibirsk (Russia)
Risto Orava (Helsinki University, Finland)
Danilo Pacella, ENEA (Frascati, Italy)
Hans Siebert (Heidelberg University, Germany)
Joseph Pochodzalla (MPI Heidelberg, Germany)
Craig Woody (BNL Upton NY USA)
RECENT
COLLABORATORS AT CERN
Leszek Ropelewki (CERN Staff)
Sebastian Bachmann (CERN Fellow)
Andrea Bressan (University of Trieste-COMPASS)
Bernhard Ketzer (CERN Fellow)
Markus Deutel (CERN Technical Student)
Elke Schulte (Helsinki Doctoral Student)
Steffen Kappler (Karlsruhe PhD Student)
Thomas Meinschad (Vienna PhD Student)
Peter Everaerts (Gent University PhD Student)
Gabriele Croci (MIlano-La Bicocca Student)
David Watts (TERA Foundation)
Nail Malakhov (TERA Foundation)
Jerome Samarati (TERA Foundation)
Sarolta Iliescu (TERA Foundation)
David Watts (PARTNER ESR)
Nail Malakhov (TERA)
Andrea Bianchi (TERA)
Giacomo Borghi (TERA)
Martina Bucciantonio (TERA)
Robert Kieffer (ENTERVISION ESR)
FORMER
DOCTORAL STUDENTS
(In parenthesis, their present position)
Prof. Guy Shultz (President, Université de Haute Alsace, Mulhouse)
Prof. Amos Breskin (Leader, Radiation Detectors Laboratory, The
Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Rehovot)
Dr. Bruno Guérard (Detector group, Institut Laue Langevin, Grenoble)
Dr. Ariella Cattai (CERN Staff)
Dr. Anna Peisert (CERN Staff)
Dr. Archana Sharma (CERN Staff)
Dr. Mar Capeans (CERN Staff)
Dr. Elke Schulte (Aachen University)
Dr. Evelyne Daubie (Université de Mons)
Dr. Michael Hoch (CERN Staff)
Dr. Jean-Jacques Florent
Prof. Paulo Fonte (Coimbra University)
Dr. Giuliana Manzin (Detector group, Institut Laue Langevin,
Grenoble)
Dr. Ada Farilla (Bari University)
Dr. Steffen Kappler (Aachen University)
Prof. Bernhard Ketzer (TUM München)
Dr. Gabriele Croci (Bicocca University, Milano)
Dr. Andrea Bianchi (Bicocca University, Milano)
Dr. David Watts (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)