High precision measurements of luminosity at future linear colliders and polarization of lepton beams

3 Oct 2010, 10:00 → 5 Oct 2010, 15:30 Israel

Shenkar building, Melamed Hall (Tel Aviv University, R. and B. Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy)

Gideon Alexander (High Energy Physics Department-Tel Aviv University), Sergey Kananov (Tel Aviv University)

The meeting is sponsored by the Israel Science Foundation and Tel Aviv University The web page is available at http://alzt.tau.ac.il/~fcal/

Sunday 3 October

10:00 → 11:40 Welcome and Introduction - Chairperson: Gideon Alexander

10:00 Welcome

Speaker: Aharon Levy (Unknown)

10:10 Introduction to FCAL

Speaker: Wolfgang Lohmann (DESY)

Slides Lohmann.ppt

10:30 NNLO predictions for Bhabha scattering

Speaker: Tord Riemann (DESY)

Slides Tord_Riemann.pdf

11:10 Numerical results for Bhabha process at small and large angles

Speaker: Dr Janusz Gluza (Silesia University)

Slides Gluza.pdf

11:40 → 12:40 Beam tests at DESY - Chairperson: Lucie Linssen

11:40 Preparation of multi-channel readout for testing a GaAs pad sensor

Speaker: Mr Hans Henschel Henschel (DESY)

Slides Henschel_-_Tel_Aviv_Oct10.pdf

12:10 Tests for preparing the GaAs test beam at DESY

Speaker: Mr Sandro Kollowa (BTU Cottbus / DESY Zeuthen)

Slides SKollowa_TelAviv_10_2010.pdf SKollowa_TelAviv_10_2010.ppt

12:40 → 14:10 Lunch break

14:10 → 16:40 Beam tests at DESY, cont'd - Chairperson: Konrad Elsener

14:10 Beam tests of novel ASICs and GaAs sensors - DAQ, calibration and preliminary results

Speaker: Mr Itamar Levy (Tel Aviv University)

Slides levy.pdf levy.ppt

14:40 Progress on ADC development, first results with multichannel ADC

Speaker: Tomasz Fiutowski (AGH University of Science and Technology)

Slides Tomasz_Fiutowski.pdf

15:10 Results of test beam analysis for GaAs prototype

Speaker: Olga Novgorodova (Moscow State University)

Slides TestBeamNovgorodova4.pdf

15:40 Test-beam with LumiCal sensor and front-end electronics

Speaker: Jonathan Aguilar (Akademia Gorniczo-Hutnicza University of Science and Technology)

Slides aguilar.pdf aguilar.ppt

16:10 → 16:50 Coffee break

16:50 → 18:20 Simulations - Chairperson: Ivanka Bozovic-Jelisavcic

16:50 Reconstruction of high energy electrons on top of beamstrahlung background in BeamCal

Speaker: Mrs Madalina Stanescu-Bellu (West University Timisoara, DESY-Zeuthen)

Slides stanescu.pdf

17:20 Single electron reconstruction efficiency in BeamCal

Speaker: Olga Novgorodova (Moscow State University)

Slides SHEe_Novgorodova2.pdf

17:50 Comparison of test-beam data with MC simulation

Speaker: Dr Bogdan Pawlik (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN)

Slides Pawlik.pdf

19:00 → 21:30 Reception and dinner (Tel Aviv University)

Monday 4 October

09:30 → 10:30 Simulations - cont'd - Chairperson: Cornelia Coca

09:30 Luminosity measurement by ZEUS at HERAII

Speaker: Mr Vladimir Drugakov (DESY)

Slides drugakov.pdf

10:00 Redesign of LumiCal mechanical structure

Speaker: Mr Wojciech Wierba (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN)

Slides W.Wierba_Redesign_of_LumiCal_Mechanical_Structure.pdf W.Wierba_Redesign_of_LumiCal_Mechanical_Structure.pptx

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Polarization - Chairperson: Gideon Alexander

11:00 Polarized positrons for future linear colliders

Speaker: Sabine Riemann (DESY)

Slides Riemann_Sabine_TAU2010.pdf Riemann_Sabine_TAU2010.ppt

11:30 Compton polarimetry for ILC and CLIC

Speaker: Dr Peter Schuler (DESY)

Slides Schuler.pdf

12:00 Ultimate positron polarization for Linear Collider

Speaker: Dr Alexander Mikhailichenko (Cornell U., CLASSE)

Slides Ultimate_Polarization_for_ILC.pdf Ultimate_Polarization_for_ILC.ppt

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 16:00 CLIC - Chairperson: Marek Idzik

14:00 Status and plans of the CLIC detector studiy

Speaker: Lucie Linssen (CERN)

Slides LinssenFCAL4Oct2010.pdf LinssenFCAL4Oct2010.pptx

14:30 CLIC forward region layout and the use of BeamCal for a fast beam-tuning feedback

Speaker: Konrad Elsener (CERN)

Slides KElsener_FCal_Meeting_TelAviv_October2010.pdf KElsener_FCal_Meeting_TelAviv_October2010.ppt

15:00 New BeamCal layout and radiation dose to BeamCal sensors

Speaker: André Sailer (CERN, HU Berlin)

Slides 1010_FCal_BeamCalDose.pdf

15:30 Mokka simulation studies on the Very Forward Detector components at CLIC and ILC

Speaker: Eliza Teodorescu (National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH))

Slides Teodorescu.pdf Teodorescu.ppt

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 17:30 CLIC cont'd - Chairperson: Bogdan Pawlik

16:30 CLIC oriented trigerless readout with time and amplitude reconstruction

Speaker: Mr Szymon Kulis (AGH University of Science and Technology)

Slides 2010_10_kulis_fcal_deconvolution_finall2.pdf

17:00 Trident events in beam-beam interactions and update on background studies at CLIC

Speaker: André Sailer (CERN, HU Berlin)

Slides 1010_FCal_TridentBkg.pdf

17:30 → 18:30 Future plans

19:00 → 22:30 Conference dinner

Bus departure from TAU at 19:00

Tuesday 5 October

09:30 → 10:20 Special lecture - Chairperson: Wolfgang Lange

09:30 LHC long term upgrade plans and the CERN accelerator R&D

Speaker: Gijs De Rijk (CERN)

Slides CERN-Acc-plans-GdR-TelAviv.pdf

10:20 → 11:00 Future plans - Chairperson: Sergey Kananov

10:20 Summary

Speaker: Wolfgang Lohmann (DESY)

Slides

• FCAL_future_tuesday.pdf
• FCAL_future_tuesday.ppt
• TA_conclusions.pdf
• TA_conclusions.ppt

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:30 FCAL Collaboration Board meeting

Convener: Wolfgang Lohmann (DESY)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:00 CLIC CDR - FCAL editorial meeting

Convener: Lucie Linssen (CERN)