3rd LHC Detector Alignment Workshop

Europe/Zurich
40-S2-A01 (CERN)

40-S2-A01

CERN

Adam Jacholkowski (Universita di Catania), Andrea Dainese (Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro), Florian Bauer (DAPNIA), Jochen Schieck (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik), Martin Weber (RWTH Aachen University), Rainer Mankel (DESY/CERN), Salvador Marti i Garcia (IFIC-Valencia (UV-CSIC)), Silvia Borghi (University of Glasgow), Wouter Hulsbergen
Description
The goal of the Workshop is to provide a forum to share ideas and information on the issues related to alignment of detectors, with particular emphasis on tracking detectors. Information from previous Workshops: 1st LHC Detector Alignment Workshop Proceedings of the 1st LHC Detector Alignment Workshop 2nd LHC Detector Alignment Workshop
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Participants
  • Adam JACHOLKOWSKI
  • Alessio Bonato
  • Andrea Bocci
  • Andrea Dainese
  • Andrea Formica
  • Andrea Parenti
  • Andrea Rossi
  • Antje Behrens
  • Beate Heinemann
  • Ben Cooper
  • Christian LASSEUR
  • Christian Schmitt
  • Christoph Amelung
  • Christophe Salzmann
  • Claus Kleinwort
  • Daniel Kollar
  • Daniel Sprenger
  • David Futyan
  • Dirk Mergelkuhl
  • Dominique Fortin
  • Eduardo Rodrigues
  • Ernesto Migliore
  • Florian Bauer
  • Frank Meier
  • Gayde Jean-Christophe
  • Gero Flucke
  • Gervasio Gomez
  • GOUDARD RAPHAEL
  • Grant Gorfine
  • HENRI BACHACOU
  • Holger Enderle
  • Ivan Reid
  • James Bellinger
  • Jan Kaspar
  • Javier Castillo
  • Jeroen van Tilburg
  • Jim Pivarski
  • Jochen Schieck
  • Johannes Hauk
  • John Alison
  • Justyna Tomaszewska
  • Lacuesta Vicente
  • M Saleem
  • Mahsana Ahsan
  • Manuel Kayl
  • Marc Deissenroth
  • Marcello Lunardon
  • Marco Gersabeck
  • Marian Ivanov
  • Markus Elsing
  • Martin Weber
  • Matthew David Needham
  • Matthias Edelhoff
  • Maxwell Scherzer
  • michiel botje
  • muge karagoz
  • Oleg Brandt
  • Paolo Bientinesi
  • Pawel Bruckman de Renstrom
  • Philippe Schune
  • Pierre-Francois Giraud
  • Raffaele Grosso
  • Rainer Mankel
  • Regina Moles-Valls
  • Roger Powell
  • Ruben Shahoyan
  • Salvador Marti
  • Sandra Moretto
  • Sebastian Huber
  • Silvia Borghi
  • Silvia Pozzi
  • Spyridon (Spiros) Margetis
  • Tapio Lampen
  • Teresa Rodrigo
  • Thomas Loddenkötter
  • Tobias Golling
  • Veikko Karimaki
  • Volker Blobel
  • Wouter Hulsbergen
    • 09:00 09:15
      Welcome
      • 09:00
        Welcome 10m
        Speaker: Martin Weber (RWTH Aachen University)
        Slides
    • 09:15 10:20
      Recent Improvements in Alignment Algorithms I
      • 09:15
        Millepede 2009 25m
        Speaker: Volker Blobel (UHH - Institut fuer Experimental Physik-Universitaet Hamburg-Un)
        Slides
      • 09:45
        Numerical methods for solving large linear systems 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Paolo Bientinesi (RWTH Aachen University, AICES)
        Slides
    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 11:00 12:30
      LHC Experience with first data: Cosmics and first beam I
      • 11:00
        ALICE Inner Tracking System: first alignment results with cosmics 20m
        Speaker: Sandra Moretto (Istituto Nazionale de Fisica Nucleare (INFN))
        Slides
      • 11:25
        Validation and tests for the alignment of the ALICE Inner Tracking System 20m
        Speaker: Andrea Rossi (Universita & INFN, Trieste)
        Slides
      • 11:50
        ATLAS Inner Detector Alignment with Cosmics 30m
        Speaker: Jochen Schieck (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)
        Slides
    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 14:00 15:30
      LHC Experience with first data: Cosmics and first beam II
      • 14:00
        CMS Tracker alignment strategy with cosmic muons 15m
        Speaker: Andrei Gritsan (Rowland Dept. of Phys. and Astron.-Johns Hopkins University-Unkn)
        Slides
      • 14:20
        CMS Tracker alignment results with cosmic muons 15m
        Speaker: Ernesto Migliore (Universita degli Studi di Torino-Universita & INFN, Torino-Unkno)
        Slides
      • 14:40
        LHCb silicon detector alignment with first LHC beam induced track 25m
        Speaker: Christophe Salzmann (Physik-Institut - Universitaet Zuerich)
        Slides
      • 15:10
        LHCb T-station detectors alignment with cosmics 15m
        Speaker: Marc Deissenroth (University of Heidelberg)
        Slides
    • 15:30 16:00
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 16:00 18:00
      LHC Experience with first data: Cosmics and first beam III
      • 16:00
        Status of the ALICE Muon Spectrometer alignment 20m
        Speaker: Javier Castillo Castellanos (Service de Physique Nucleaire (SPhN)-IRFU-cea - Centre d'Etudes)
        Slides
      • 16:25
        ATLAS Muon spectrometer alignment (hardware and cosmics) 30m
        Speaker: Christoph Amelung (Brandeis University)
        Slides
      • 17:00
        Hardware-based alignment of the CMS muon system 15m
        Speaker: Gervasio Gomez (Instituto de Física de Cantabria)
        Slides
      • 17:20
        Alignment of the CMS muon system with beam halo and cosmic muon tracks 15m
        Speaker: Dr Jim Pivarski (Texas A&M University)
        Slides
      • 17:40
        LHCb Muon detector alignment with cosmics 15m
        Speaker: Silvia Pozzi (INFN, Sezione di Ferrara-Universita di Ferrara-Unknown)
        Slides
    • 19:30 22:00
      Dinner at Restaurant 2 (DSR) 2h 30m
    • 09:00 09:50
      Recent Improvements in Alignment Algorithms II
      • 09:00
        The Kalman filter alignment algorithm 20m
        Speaker: Dr Edmund Widl (Institut für Hochenergiephysik (HEPHY Vienna))
        Slides
      • 09:25
        Rigorous integration of Kalman filter track fit into alignment 20m
        Speaker: Wouter Hulsbergen (NIKHEF-Unknown-Unknown)
        Slides
    • 09:50 10:30
      Impact of Misalignment on Physics I
      • 09:50
        Impact of Alignment on Physics Analysis with the ATLAS Detector 35m
        Speaker: Ben Cooper (Queen Mary University of London)
        Slides
    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 11:00 12:35
      Impact of Misalignment on Physics II
      • 11:00
        Impact of misalignment on track and heavy-flavour reconstruction with the Alice Detector 25m
        Speaker: Andrea Dainese (Universita degli Studi di Padova)
        Slides
      • 11:30
        CMS alignment implications for physics performance 15m
        Speaker: Nhan Tran (Johns Hopkins University)
        Slides
      • 11:50
        Impact of Tracker Misalignment on the CMS b-Tagging Performance 15m
        Speaker: Mr Christophe Saout (CMS, CERN & IEKP, Uni Karlsruhe)
        Slides
      • 12:10
        Impact of misalignment on beauty physics at LHCb 25m
        Speaker: Eduardo Rodrigues (Uni. of Glasgow)
        Slides
    • 12:40 14:00
      Lunch 1h 20m
    • 14:00 15:40
      Alignment framework & integration into overall calibration scheme
      • 14:00
        ALICE Integration of the alignment in the general calibration strategy 15m
        Speaker: Cvetan Cheshkov (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))
        Slides
      • 14:20
        ATLAS Atlas Alignment framework and integration 25m
        Speaker: Andrea Formica (DAPNIA)
        Slides
      • 14:50
        Integration of Alignment in Overall CMS Calibration Workflow 25m
        Speaker: Gero Flucke (DESY)
        Slides
      • 15:20
        The LHCb alignment and alignment monitoring framework 20m
        Speaker: Johan Blouw (Ruprech-Karls-University of Heidelberg)
        Slides
    • 15:45 16:15
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 16:15 17:45
      Alignment aspects for the LHC Upgrade
      • 16:15
        ATLAS Inner Detector Upgrade 15m
        Speaker: Sergio Gonzalez Sevilla (Section de Physique-Dept. de Phys. Nucl. et Corpuscul. (DPNC)-Un)
        Slides
      • 16:35
        ATLAS Muon Detector Upgrade 15m
        Speakers: Ludovico Pontecorvo (INFN, Sezione di Roma I-Universita & INFN, Roma I-Unknown), Tatsuo Kawamoto (International Center for Elementary Particle Physics ICEPP)
        Slides
      • 16:55
        Possible layouts of an upgraded CMS tracker 25m
        Speaker: Duccio Abbaneo (CERN)
        Slides
      • 17:25
        Discussion 20m
    • 17:45 18:00
      Workshop Closing
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