6th RD51 Collaboration Meeting

from Thursday, October 7, 2010 (10:00 AM) to Sunday, October 10, 2010 (3:00 PM)
Bari, Italy (Hotel Palace)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Oct 7, 2010
Oct 8, 2010
Oct 9, 2010
Oct 10, 2010
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11:30 AM
Registration (until 12:30 PM) (Hotel Palace)
9:00 AM
WG2: Common Characterization and Physics Issues (until 12:30 PM) (Hotel Palace)
9:00 AM Double LEM with 2D readout in liquid Argon - Filippo Resnati (Institut fuer Teilchenphysik-Eidgenossische Tech. Hochschule Zue)   (Hotel Palace)
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9:20 AM First tests of micromegas in double-phase Liquid Argon - Alain Delbart (DAPNIA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEN Saclay))   (Hotel Palace)
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9:40 AM First operation of GridPix in pure argon at low temperature - Harry Van Der Graaf (NIKHEF)   (Hotel Palace)
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10:00 AM GEM detector for neutron beam diagnostic - Gabriele Croci (CERN and University of Siena, Siena, Italy)   (Hotel Palace)
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10:20 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:40 AM Challenges for a High-Rate TPC with MPGD Readout - Daniel Kaplan (Illinois Institute of Technology)   (Hotel Palace)
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11:00 AM Characterization of Micromegas resistive detectors for the MAMMA project - Dr David ATTIE (CEA/DSM/DAPNIA/SPP)   (Hotel Palace)
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11:20 AM Latest results on Micromegas for the ATLAS muon spectrometer upgrade - Venetios Polychronakos (Department of Physics)   (Hotel Palace)
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11:40 AM Pixellized Micromegas for COMPASS - Maxence Vandenbroucke (Technische Universitaet Muenchen-Unknown-Unknown)   (Hotel Palace)
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9:00 AM
WG6: Production (until 12:30 PM) (Hotel Palace)
9:00 AM Technology Transfer issues - Hartmut Hillemanns (CERN)   (Hotel Palace)
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9:30 AM CERN workshop status and single mask GEM production - Rui De Oliveira (CERN)   (Hotel Palace)
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10:00 AM GEM production by Indian industry - Archana Sharma (CERN)   (Hotel Palace)
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10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM Micromega production by CIRE - Jean-Luc Carette (CIRE)   (Hotel Palace)
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11:30 AM Saclay MPGD Workshop after 6 month of activity - Stephan Aune   (Hotel Palace)
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9:00 AM
WG4: Simulations and Software Tools (until 12:30 PM) (Hotel Palace)
10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM Simulation activities at SINP - an update - Supratik Mukhopadhyay   (Hotel Palace)
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11:20 AM Electroluminescence in noble gases - Carlos Alberto Bastos De Oliveira   (Hotel Palace)
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11:40 AM Simulation/Software School   (Hotel Palace)
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11:50 AM Ionisation   (Hotel Palace)
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9:00 AM
WG7: Common Test Facilities (until 12:30 PM) (Hotel Palace)
9:00 AM Introduction & news - Matteo Alfonsi (CERN) Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens)   (Hotel Palace)
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9:10 AM August test beam - TOTEM preliminary results - Eraldo Oliveri (Universita' Degli Studi di Siena-INFN, Sezione di Pisa-Unknown) Elena Graverini (Universita degli Studi di Pisa-Sezione di Pisa (INFN))   (Hotel Palace)
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9:30 AM August test beam - First beam results of a THGEM for DHCAL - amos breskin (weizmann institute)   (Hotel Palace)
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9:50 AM August test beam - COMPASS RICH THGEM preliminary results - Stefano Levorato (Universita & INFN, Trieste-Unknown-Unknown)   (Hotel Palace)
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10:10 AM August test beam - NIKHEF GridPix preliminary result - Frederik Hartjes (NIKHEF)   (Hotel Palace)
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10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM October test beam setup - Matteo Alfonsi (CERN)   (Hotel Palace)
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11:10 AM CMS High-Eta Upgrade: test beam programme - Archana Sharma (CERN)   (Hotel Palace)
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11:20 AM CLAS12 and COMPASS Micromegas: test beam programme - Maxence Vandenbroucke (Technische Universitaet Muenchen-Unknown-Unknown)   (Hotel Palace)
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9:00 AM
Plenary Session (until 3:00 PM) (Hotel Palace)
9:00 AM Collaboration board meeting summary - Silvia Dalla Torre (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))   (Hotel Palace)
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9:20 AM WG2 summary - Maximilien Chefdeville (LAPP, Annecy)   (Hotel Palace)
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9:50 AM WG1 summary - Paul Colas (IRFU-cea - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, France)   (Hotel Palace)
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10:20 AM WG4 summary - Rob Veenhof   (Hotel Palace)
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10:50 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:20 AM WG7 summary - Matteo Alfonsi (CERN)   (Hotel Palace)
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11:50 AM WG5 summary - Jochen Kaminski (Universität Bonn)   (Hotel Palace)
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12:20 PM WG6 summary - Hans Taureg (CERN, Geneva)   (Hotel Palace)
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12:50 PM Closing remarks - Dr Maxim TITOV (CEA Saclay)   (Hotel Palace)
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PM
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Plenary Session (until 7:00 PM) (Hotel Palace)
2:00 PM RD51 collaboration news - Dr Maxim TITOV (CEA Saclay)   (Hotel Palace)
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2:30 PM Welcome - Paolo Spinelli   (Hotel Palace)
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2:50 PM Memories of Georges Charpak - amos breskin (weizmann institute) Ioanis Giomataris (Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA-Saclay))   (Hotel Palace)
3:30 PM RD51 Technology Offers and TTN - Hartmut Hillemanns (CERN)   (Hotel Palace)
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3:50 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:20 PM Large Volume Spherical Detector and its Applications - Ioanis Giomataris (Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA-Saclay))   (Hotel Palace)
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5:05 PM Status of GridPix Developments - Harry Van Der Graaf (NIKHEF)   (Hotel Palace)
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12:30 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM
Excursion (until 7:00 PM) ()
7:00 PM
Collaboration Dinner (until 11:00 PM) ()
12:30 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM
WG1: Technological Aspects and Development of New Detector Structures (until 6:00 PM) (Hotel Palace)
2:00 PM Status of the Micromegas squared meter for DHCAL - Maximilien Chefdeville (LAPP, Annecy)   (Hotel Palace)
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2:20 PM CMS large GEM protoype - Archana Sharma (CERN)   (Hotel Palace)
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2:40 PM Double-sided and segmented Bulk Micromegas - Stephan AUNE (CEA/Irfu Saclay)   (Hotel Palace)
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3:00 PM Light and Charge measurement in Micromegas - Ioannis Giomataris (CEA/Irfu Saclay)   (Hotel Palace)
3:20 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:00 PM Ultrashort Pulsed Laser Technology for New Detectors - Antonio Ancona (CNR - INF, Bari)   (Hotel Palace)
4:20 PM HARPO, gamma-ray polarimetry and high-precision astronomy above pair creation threshold - Denis BERNARD (LLR Ecole polytechnique)   (Hotel Palace)
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4:40 PM THGEMs for RICH applications - Stefano Levorato (Universita & INFN, Trieste-Unknown-Unknown)   (Hotel Palace)
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5:00 PM Status of GEM at IHEP Beijing - Mr Sun Zhijia (IHEP Beijing) Mr Huirong Qi (IHEP Beijing)   (Hotel Palace)
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2:00 PM
WG5: MPGD Related Electronics (until 6:00 PM) (Hotel Palace)
2:00 PM Welcome, Announcements, etc.   (Hotel Palace)
2:05 PM Status of the Scalable Readout System - Hans Muller (CERN)   (Hotel Palace)
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2:35 PM Status of SRS system hardware - Sorin Martoiu (CERN)   (Hotel Palace)
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3:05 PM Status of the SRS electronics for the NEXT readout - Jose F. Toledo Alarcon (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia)   (Hotel Palace)
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3:35 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:00 PM News on the GEM readout via DATE and SRS - Kondo GNANVO (Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Fl, USA)   (Hotel Palace)
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4:30 PM Status of the APV25 based electronics for the GEM Tracker at JLab/Hall A - Evaristo Cisbani (INFN Rome Gruppo Sanità)   (Hotel Palace)
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5:00 PM Status of the BNL chip for ATLAS Micromegas - Venetios Polychronakos (Department of Physics)   (Hotel Palace)
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5:30 PM News on NIKHEF microHV - Frederik Hartjes (NIKHEF)   (Hotel Palace)
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6:00 PM
RD51 Collaboration Board Meeting (until 8:00 PM) (Hotel Palace)