In the Detector Development Laboratory R&D is carried out with the
aim to supply hardware to existing collaborations as well as to pave the
path for future projects and to apply high-energy physics techniques to
other fields, notably medicine and environmental science. The main ongoing
activities are:
participation in the Very Forward Tracker upgrade for the DELPHI
experiment,
constuction of the RICH detector for the
HERA-B project at DESY,
construction of a Positron
Emission Tomograph based on multiwire proportional chambers and Pb-Bi
photon converters,
development of a Si-aerogel Cherenkov counter for detection of radioactive
Strontium in the environment.