Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Czech Technical University in Prague

Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Czech Technical University in Prague, was founded in 2002 as a scientific-academic unit of the CTU oriented toward fundamental experimental and theoretical research in subatomic physics and applications in different scientific and technical fields. The scientific program includes particle physics (cooperation with CERN), research in deep underground laboratories (dark matter, neutrino physics), structure of atomic nuclei, and detection of cosmic radiation. Research activities are based on development of progressive detection techniques (pixel semiconductor detectors within collaboration Medipix, scintillation detectors, spectrometric and imaging systems etc.). Applications are mainly dedicated to biomedicine, hadron therapy or material study (X-ray and neutron tomography).

Regarding the space oriented research of radiation fields along orbits of satellites and of cosmic rays, IEAP CTU developed integrated systems with pixel detectors (providing composition and spectral characteristics of mixed fields of radiation in energy range from keV to TeV) for different missions such as PROBA-V (ESA), radiation monitors for ISS (NASA, in collaboration with the University of Houston) or RISESAT (JAXA).