Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors (RD51) Workshop

chaired by Harry van der Graaf and Leszek Ropelewski
from to (Europe/Zurich)
at NIKHEF, Amsterdam
Description
Dear Colleague,

It is our pleasure to announce on behalf of Harry van der Graaf and Jan Timmermans, that NIKHEF will host the Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors (MPGD) Workshop, including the first RD51 Collaboration Meeting, on 16th-18th of April 2008. RD51 has been initiated at CERN in 2007 to develop micro-pattern gas detectors.

It will be 100 years since Geiger invented the first wire chamber, and the meeting will reflect on the history of gaseous detector technology, while looking forward to new frontiers with MPGD, new trackers, state-of-the-art technologies, and the benefits to be gained from Moore's Law.

The meeting will have sessions on technology, micro-electronics, ageing, simulations, and common development (testbeams, standardisation, nomenclature, etc.). It will concentrate on the future and avoid status talks about current detectors.

A further aim of the workshop is to set up the organization of the MPGD Collaboration (RD51).

For more information please contact: Harry van der Graaf (vdgraaf@nikhef.nl) or Leszek Ropelewski (leszek.ropelewski@cern.ch).
Support Email: vdgraaf@nikhef.nl
Go to day
  • Wednesday, 16 April 2008
    • 09:00 - 09:10 Opening
      • 09:00 Welcome and Opening 10'
        Speakers: Frank Linde (Nikhef), Leszek Ropelewski (CERN)
    • 09:10 - 09:20 In Memoriam
      • 09:10 Tribute to Vincent Lepeltier 10'
        Speaker: Paul Colas (DAPNIA)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
    • 09:20 - 10:30 New Technology I
      Convener: Silvia DALLA TORRE (INFN Trieste)
      • 09:20 Gaseous Detectors 1908-2008: one century of success and disappointments 30'
        Speaker: Fabio Sauli (TERA/CERN)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 09:50 Results from InGrid/TimePix detectors 20'
        Speaker: Lucie De Nooij (Nikhef)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 10:10 Recent advances in THGEM detectors 20'
        Speaker: Amos Breskin (Weizmann Institute)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
    • 10:30 - 10:50 Coffee break
    • 10:50 - 12:40 New Technology II
      Convener: Leszek ROPELEWSKI (CERN)
      • 10:50 Micromegas 30'
        Speaker: Ioanis Giomataris (Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA-Saclay))
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 11:20 Large GEM detectors development 20'
        Speaker: Serge Duarte Pinto (CERN)
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 11:40 Latest achievements in developments of large-area screen printed resistive GEMs 20'
        Speaker: Vladimir Peskov (CERN)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 12:00 Ion back flow reduction in GEM-like cascades operating in HpXe 20'
        Speaker: Joao F.C.A. Veloso (University of Coimbra)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 12:20 Efficient ion blocking in patterned hole-multipliers and its application to visible-sensitive gas-avalanche photomultipliers 20'
        Speaker: Amos Breskin (Weizmann Institute)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
    • 12:40 - 14:00 Lunch
    • 14:00 - 15:50 New Technology III
      Convener: Paul Colas (CEA/IRFU DAPNIA Saclay)
      • 14:00 Radiation detectors made by post-processing standard CMOS: a technologist's perspective 30'
        Speaker: Jurriaan Schmitz (University of Twente/MESA+)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file
      • 14:30 InGrid: the integration of a grid onto a pixel anode by means of Wafer Post Processing technology 20'
        Speaker: Victor Blanco Carballo (University of Twente/MESA+)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 14:50 Track properties recorded by a GEM TimePix 20'
        Speaker: Prof. Andreas Bamberger (Albert-Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 15:10 First results from a prototype TPC with GEM and TimePix at Bonn 20'
        Speaker: Jochen Kaminski (Universität Bonn)
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 15:30 PIM: a multi-stage device using micromeshes for tracking particles 20'
        Speaker: Jerome Beucher (SUBATECH/CEA/IRFU/SPP)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
    • 15:50 - 16:20 Coffee break
    • 16:20 - 18:20 Electronics
      Convener: Werner Riegler (CERN)
      • 16:20 TimePix-2: a new and fast general purpose MPGD readout pixel chip 20'
        Speaker: Jan Timmermans (Nikhef)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file rotating-helix unknown type file
      • 16:40 Gossipo-2: testing new concept for TDC-per-pixel 20'
        Speaker: Vladimir Gromov (Nikhef)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 17:00 Status of the Medipix3 development and possible input for Timepix2 20'
        Speaker: Michael Campbell
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 17:20 The protection of CMOS pixel chips against discharges in MPGDs 20'
        Speaker: Martin Fransen (Nikhef)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 17:40 VFAT and portable readout 20'
        Speaker: Paul Aspell (CERN)
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 18:00 General discussion 20'
  • Thursday, 17 April 2008
    • 09:00 - 09:40 Ageing and Radiation Hardness; Irradiation Fascilities
      Convener: Kari KURVINEN (Helsinki Institute of Physics)
      • 09:00 Irradiation facilities at CERN 20'
        Speaker: Mar Capeans Garrido (CERN)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 09:20 Gossip ageing study 20'
        Speaker: Fred Hartjes (Nikhef)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
    • 09:40 - 10:30 Relations with Industry
      Convener: Jan Visschers (Nikhef)
      • 09:40 GEM development with Tech-Etch for future detector applications 20'
        Speaker: Dr. Frank Simon (MPI for Physics, Munich)
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 10:00 Techtra [Wroclaw Technology Park] 10'
        Speaker: Chorowski Maciej (Wroclaw University of Technology)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 10:10 PANalytical 20'
        Speaker: Klaus Bethke (PANalytical)
        Material: Slides pdf file
    • 10:30 - 10:50 coffee break
    • 10:50 - 12:50 Data analysis, simulations and software
      Convener: Alain BELLERIVE (Carleton University)
      • 10:50 Microscopic tracking 20'
        Speaker: Rob Veenhof (IST/CFIF)
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 11:10 Energy resolution and ion backflow in InGrid 20'
        Speaker: Maximilien Chefdeville (Nikhef/Saclay)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 11:30 Charge distribution, signal development 20'
        Speaker: Paul Colas (Saclay/DAPNIA)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 11:50 Field solver and its possible application in the simulation of MPGDs 20'
        Speaker: Prof. Supratik Mukhopadhyay (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)
        Material: Slides powerpoint filedown arrow pdf filedown arrow
      • 12:10 Penning effect on gas amplification factor 20'
        Speaker: Ozkan Sahin (Uludag University)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 12:30 Geant-4 simulation of gas detectors 20'
        Speaker: Alain Bellerive (Carleton University)
        Material: Slides pdf file
    • 12:50 - 14:00 Lunch
    • 14:00 - 15:30 RD-51 organization (open status reports presentations)
      • 14:00 Convenors report 20'
        Speaker: Leszek Ropelewski (CERN)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 14:20 Proposal presentation 30'
        Speaker: Dr. Maxim TITOV (Freiburg University)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 14:50 MoU presentation 20'
        Speaker: Hans Taureg (CERN, Geneva)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 15:10 Technology transfer 20'
        Speaker: Bernard Denis (CERN)
        Material: Slides pdf file
    • 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
    • 16:00 - 18:30 RD-51 organization (closed discussion – Institute representatives)
      • 16:00 Formation of Collaboration (list of Institutes, Collaboration Board, CB chairperson) 30'
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 16:30 Spokesman election 30'
      • 17:00 Working groups and coordinators 30'
      • 17:30 Steering Committee 10'
      • 17:40 Publication policy 10'
      • 17:50 Common fund 10'
      • 18:00 Intellectual property and relations with industry 30'
    • 20:00 - 23:00 conference dinner
      IJ-Kantine, Amsterdam. http://www.ijkantine.nl
  • Friday, 18 April 2008
    • 09:00 - 10:50 MPGD applications I
      Convener: Leszek ROPELEWSKI (CERN)
      • 09:00 MPGD-based photon detectors for Cherenkov imaging counters 20'
        Speaker: Dr. Fulvio Tessarotto (INFN Trieste)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 09:20 Micromegas for rare events searches 20'
        Speaker: Igor Garcia Irastorza (DAPNIA)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 09:40 Gas Pixel transition radiation tracker 20'
        Speaker: Anatoli Romaniouk (Moscow Physical Engineering Institute (MePhl))
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 10:00 Micromegas for ATLAS upgrade 20'
        Speaker: Paolo Iengo (CERN)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 10:20 GEM detectors for digital hadron calorimetry 20'
        Speaker: Andrew White (University of Texas at Arlington)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 10:40 GEMs for tracking in JLab 10'
        Speaker: Evaristo Cisbani (INFN Rome Gruppo Sanità)
        Material: Slides pdf file
    • 10:50 - 11:20 coffee break
    • 11:20 - 13:00 MPGD applications II
      Convener: Paul Colas (CEA/IRFU DAPNIA Saclay)
      • 11:20 Thin layer Amorphous Silicon technology 20'
        Speaker: Nicolas Wyrsch (IMT/University of Neuchatel)
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 11:40 TPC prototype for ILC 20'
        Speaker: Klaus Dehmelt (DESY)
        Material: LargePrototypeTPC_ILC pdf file
      • 12:00 R&D of gating GEM 20'
        Speaker: Akira Sugiyama (Universtity of Saga)
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 12:20 Resistive anode readout 20'
        Speaker: Stephen Turnbull (Saclay)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 12:40 Scintillation readout from micropatterned electron multipliers for dual-phase dark matter detectors 20'
        Speaker: Joaquim dos Santos (University of Coimbra)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
    • 13:00 - 13:30 lunch