RD51 Collaboration Meeting and Topical Workshop on Wide Dynamic Range Operation

from Monday 15 November 2021 (09:00) to Friday 19 November 2021 (17:00)
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        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
15 Nov 2021
16 Nov 2021
17 Nov 2021
18 Nov 2021
19 Nov 2021
AM
09:00
WG1 - Technological Aspects and Development of New Detector Structures - Filippo Resnati (CERN) Paul Colas (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) (until 12:30)
09:00 Update of the 100cmX50cm RWELL detector for DHCAL application - Yi Zhou (USTC) Yi Zhou (University of Science and Technology of China (CN)) Daojin Hong (USTC)  
09:25 Study of the thermal bonding Micromegas in 10 bar gas pressure for PandaX-III experiment - Yi Zhou (USTC) Yi Zhou (University of Science and Technology of China (CN)) Sicheng Wen (USTC)  
09:50 Spherical Proportional Counter: Towards a spherical gaseous TPC with charge and light readouts - Ioannis Katsioulas (University of Birmingham) Ioannis Katsioulas (University of Birmingham)  
10:15 Characterization of the random electrode sectorization in the GEM-foils - Francesco Fallavollita (CERN)  
10:40 --- Break ---
10:50 Overview of the EIC R&D effort on MPGDs - Francesco Bossu (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Francesco Bossu (CEA-Saclay)  
11:15 The Surface Resistive Plate Counter: preliminary results of the test beam - Giovanni Bencivenni (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))  
11:40 Picosec precise timing detectors : recent results, status and plans - Antonija Utrobicic (CERN)  
12:05 The Multi-layer THGEM and derived structures - Marco Cortesi (Michigan State University)  
09:00
WG4 - Modelling of Physics Processes and Software Tools - Piet Verwilligen (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT)) Ozkan Sahin (Uludag University (TR)) Rob Veenhof (Uludag University (TR)) (until 12:00)
09:00 Fast grounding simulation for DLC-based uRWELL detector - Zhujun Fang (USTC) Yi Zhou (USTC) Yi Zhou (University of Science and Technology of China (CN))  
09:30 Simulation of Negative Ions in Garfield++ - Hirohisa Ishiura (Kobe University(JP))  
10:00 Performance of a resistive Micromegas in a controlled O2 environment - Deb Sankar Bhattacharya (Julius Max. Universitaet Wuerzburg (DE))  
10:30 --- coffee break ---
10:45 Penning Transfers: Available Data and Garfield++ Implementation - Ibrahim A.M. ALSAMAK (Bursa Uludag University)  
11:05 Determination of cluster ion size for Ar-CO2 mixtures. - Yalcin Kalkan (Muş Alparslan University (TR))  
11:25 An update to the modelling of signal formation in detectors with resistive elements - Djunes Janssens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE))  
09:00
Topical Workshop - Wide Dynamic Range Operation of MPGDs - Florian Maximilian Brunbauer (CERN) Pawel Majewski (STFC/Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) (until 12:30)
09:00 Opening  
09:05 MPGDs operation in high-dynamic range environments - Vladimir Peskov (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU))  
09:35 Single photon detection with gaseous detectors and the COMPASS RICH experience - Chandradoy Chatterjee (INFN Trieste (IT))  
10:00 Measurements and simulation of the response linearity of a Triple GEM structure - Davide Pinci (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))  
10:25 Possible ways to increase dynamic range in GEM, THGEM, Micromegas and uRwell detectors - Rui De Oliveira (CERN)  
10:50 --- Coffee break ---
11:10 Recent Developments in Optical and Charge Hybrid Readout Glass GEM - Takeshi Fujiwara (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology )  
11:35 Discharge quenching - towards a spark-less MPGD - Piotr Gasik (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))  
12:00 An Approach for Extra large high Dynamic Range - Emanuel Pollacco (CEA)  
09:00
Communications (until 10:30)
09:00 109 Plenary ECFA Meeting - https://indico.cern.ch/event/1085137  
10:30
WG7 - Common Test Facilities - Eraldo Oliveri (CERN) Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR)) (until 12:35)
10:30 intro and news - Yorgos Tsipolitis (NTUA) Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR)) Eraldo Oliveri (CERN)  
10:35 PICOSEC - Marta Lisowska (Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay (FR))  
10:50 MINICACTUS - Yavuz Degerli (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR))  
11:05 UNIANDES/GSI GEM Traker & SRS/VMM3a - Mikhail Demichev (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU)) Gerardo Roque (Universidad de los Andes (CO)) Anastasios Belias (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))  
11:20 DUBNA Straw - Vitalii Bautin (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU))  
11:35 RD51 Triple GEM Tracker & SRS/VMM3a - Lucian Scharenberg (CERN, University of Bonn (DE))  
11:50 LMU GEM/mm - Christoph Jagfeld (Ludwig Maximilians Universitat (DE)) Christoph Jagfeld (Ludwig Maximilians Universitat (DE))  
12:05 Small Pad Resistive mm - Marco Sessa (Universita e INFN Roma Tre (IT))  
12:20 LMU PCT - Jonathan Frederik Bortfeldt (Fakultaet fuer Physik-Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen) Jona Bortfeldt (Ludwig Maximilians Universitat (DE))  
PM
14:00
WG5 - Electronics for MPGD - Hans Muller (University of Bonn (DE)) Jochen Kaminski (University of Bonn (DE)) (until 17:00)
14:00 Welcome and Intro - Jochen Kaminski (University of Bonn (DE)) Hans Muller (University of Bonn (DE))  
14:05 ASIC table - Marco Bregant (Universidade de Sao Paulo (BR))  
14:10 SAMPA and SRS - Hugo Natal Da Luz (Czech Technical University in Prague)  
14:30 SRS/VMM3a HW/FW/SW update - Dorothea Pfeiffer (CERN)  
14:50 SRS VMM3a-based streaming readout for future GEM detectors at AMBER and in neutron science - Michael Lupberger (University of Bonn (DE)) Michael Lupberger (University of Bonn)  
15:10 SRS/VMM3a - RD51 testbeams - Eraldo Oliveri (CERN)  
15:25 Lessons from test beam, CTF clock and grounding - Hans Muller (University of Bonn (DE))  
15:40 SRS/VMM3a - Documentation and software-operation overview - Lucian Scharenberg (CERN, University of Bonn (DE))  
15:55 Discussion  
16:00 --- coffee break ---
16:20 The High Voltage power supply system for MPGDs. Status and plans - Luis G. García Ordóñez (ICTP-MLAB/INFN Sezione di Trieste (IT))  
16:40 Optocoupler based biasing scheme for triple GEM of CBM-MuCh - Ajit Kumar Ajit Kumar (Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre)  
14:00
RD51 MB meeting - Silvia Dalla Torre (Universita e INFN Trieste (IT)) Leszek Ropelewski (CERN) (until 15:00)
15:00
WG2 - Detector Physics and Performance - Francisco Ignacio Garcia Fuentes (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI)) Florian Maximilian Brunbauer (CERN) (until 17:40)
15:00 Performance of the microbulk detector in the IAXO pathfinder system at the CAST experiment - Cristina Margalejo Blasco (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))  
15:20 Progress with small-pad Micromegas - Marco Sessa (Universita e INFN Roma Tre (IT))  
15:40 First results in signal sharing with multi-pad Picosec module prototypes - Alexandra Kallitsopoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR))  
16:00 Characterization of micro-RWELL with high intensity X-rays - Matteo Giovannetti (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))  
16:20 --- Coffee break ---
16:40 Ion Back Flow measurements in hybrid GEM and Micromegas detectors - Aude Glaenzer (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
17:00 Triple GEM characterisation and performance studies - Ajit Kumar (Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre)  
17:20 Charging-up studies on triple GEM chamber - Sayak Chatterjee  
12:00
Communications (until 12:20)
12:00 RD51 membership application - Jefferson Lab - Kondo Gnanvo (University of Virginia (US))  
14:00
RD51 Collaboration Board - Atsuhiko Ochi (Kobe University (JP)) Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR)) (until 15:00)
15:00
WG6 - Production and Industrialization - Rui De Oliveira (CERN) Fabien Jeanneau (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) (until 17:00)
15:00 Preliminary results of Micro-strip gas counter on PCB substrate - Xu Wang (University of Science and Technology of China (CN))  
15:25 Capacitive-sharing with uRWELL and GEMs - Kondo Gnanvo (University of Virginia (US))  
15:50 Report on the GE21 mass production for the upgrade of the CMS muon system - Jeremie Alexandre Merlin (INFN-Bari)  
16:15 Characterizing Microbulk Micromegas detectors through digital image processing - Barbara Biasuzzi (CEA - IRFU)  
14:00
Communications (until 14:20)
14:20
Topical Workshop - Wide Dynamic Range Operation of MPGDs - Florian Maximilian Brunbauer (CERN) Pawel Majewski (STFC/Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) (until 17:50)
14:20 A first look at electronic spark mitigation for wide dynamic range operation - Johan Erik Borg (Imperial College (GB))  
14:45 Spherical gaseous detectors for wide dynamic range - Patrick Ryan Knights (University of Birmingham (GB))  
15:10 Super-FRS tracking of heavy ions at FAIR with twin-GEM-TPC - Francisco Ignacio Garcia Fuentes (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))  
15:35 Effects of high charge densities in GEM-based detectors - Filippo Resnati (CERN)  
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:15 Operation and performance of MPGD in Active Target Time Projection Chambers - Yassid Ayyad (Facility for rare Isotope Beams)  
16:40 Detector Dynamic Range and the Migdal Effect - Alex Mills (University of New Mexico)  
17:05 Dynamic range in MPGD-based directional neutron and dark matter detection - Sven Vahsen (University of Hawaii (US))  
17:30 Discussion  
14:00
WG7 - Common Test Facilities (until 15:00)
14:00 RPWELL - Darina Zavazieva  
14:15 CMS GEM Phase-II & FTM - Antonello Pellecchia (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))  
14:30 AMBER mm/TIGER - Chiara Alice (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))  
14:45 uRWELL (H8) - Matteo Giovannetti (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT)) TBC