XVI Workshop on Resistive Plate Chambers and Related Detectors

from Monday 26 September 2022 (08:30) to Friday 30 September 2022 (18:00)
CERN (500/1-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
26 Sept 2022
27 Sept 2022
28 Sept 2022
29 Sept 2022
30 Sept 2022
AM
09:00 Registration and welcome  
09:50
RPC@LHC - Beatrice Mandelli (CERN) (until 12:40)
09:50 The ATLAS RPC system for the LHC Run-3 - Davide Boscherini (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))  
10:15 The CMS RPC system readiness for LHC Run 3 data taking - Mariana Shopova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BG))  
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 Commissioning and first performances of the ALICE MID RPCs - Livia Terlizzi (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))  
11:25 Commissioning and first measurements with LHC collisions of BIS78 RPCs, an innovative detector for ATLAS HL-LHC upgrades - Sinem Simsek (Istinye University (TR))  
11:50 Improved Resistive Plate Chambers for Phase 2 upgrade of CMS - Amrutha Samalan (Ghent University (BE))  
12:15 Optimization of the production procedures of thin-gap RPCs - Hubert Kroha (Max Planck Society (DE))  
09:00
Visits to CERN experiments/facilities (until 12:40)
09:00
Eco-friendly mixtures for RPC detectors - Paulo Fonte (until 13:00)
09:00 Development of new gas recuperation systems for particle detectors using greenhouse gases - Roberto Guida (CERN)  
09:25 On a new environment-friendly gas mixture for Resistive Plate Chambers - Giorgia Proto (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT))  
09:50 Performance studies of RPC operated with alternatives to R-134a in the presence of LHC-like background radiation - Gianluca Rigoletti (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))  
10:15 The ecological transition of the Extreme Energy Events experiment - Marcello Abbrescia (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))  
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 Possible alternatives to SF6 for Resistive Place Chambers - Beatrice Mandelli (CERN)  
11:25 Eco-friendly Resistive Plate Chamber detectors for future HEP applications. - Luca Quaglia (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))  
11:50 RPC performance with an alternative eco-friendly gas mixture - Mr Subhendu Das (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP), India)  
12:15 Characterization of a RPC prototype with 1mm of gas gap thicknesses - Dayron Ramos Lopez (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))  
09:00
Detector electronics and simulation - Barbara Liberti (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT)) (until 12:40)
09:00 Design of the new RPCs and Front End electronics for the ATLAS High Luminosity LHC program - Luca Pizzimento (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT)) Luca Pizzimento (INFN)  
09:20 CMS iRPC FEB development and validation - Maxime Gouzevitch (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
09:40 Development of a sealed MRPC with mylar spacers for high luminosity TOF systems - Botan Wang (Tsinghua University)  
10:00 Simulation of the avalanche creation in resitive circular chambers - Oliver Kortner (Max Planck Society (DE))  
10:20 Parallelization of Garfield++ and neBEM to simulate space charge effects in RPCs - Tanay Dey  
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 The reflection readout method of RPC - Yuexin Ding (University of Science and Technology of China (CN))  
11:20 96-channel Time-to-Digital converter (TDC) for the CMS Phase 2 Upgrade of the RPC Link System - Behzad Boghrati (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IR))  
11:40 Check-Sort-Push protocol in CMS iRPC/RPC data compression/decompression and transmission and its application in Backend electronics system (BY ZOOM)) - Zhen-An Liu (IHEP,Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))  
12:00 R&D on signal transmission on thin-gap RPC - Zirui Liu (University of Science and Technology of China (CN))  
12:20 practical info  
09:00
New experiments (until 09:20)
09:00 CODEX-b: a novel detector to probe the dark sector at the HL-LHC - Biplab Dey (Eotvos U.)  
09:20 group picture of partecipants   (500/1-201 - Mezzanine)
09:40 CAEN presentation  
10:00
Detector R&D - Salvatore Buontempo (INFN Napoli (IT)) (until 12:40)
10:00 High rate, high time resolution, 2D-position sensitive and aging effect suppression Multi-Strip Multi-Gap Resistive Plate Counter - Mariana Petris (Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (RO))  
10:20 Exploring the performance limits of the new generation of ATLAS RPCs - Giulio Aielli (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT)) Giulio Aielli (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT))  
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 Latest results of Longevity studies on the present CMS RPC system for HL-LHC phase. - Reham Aly (Politecnico - Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))  
11:20 Outdoor systems performance and upgrade - Luis Alberto Vieira Lopes (LIP - Laboratorio de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas (PT))  
11:40 Study of Ionic signal properties with different readout methods. - Alessandro Paoloni (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))  
12:00 RPC background studies at CMS experiment - Francesco Carnevali (Universita e INFN sezione di Napoli (IT))  
PM
14:00
New experiments - Michael Tytgat (Ghent University (BE)) (until 18:20)
14:00 R&D of prototype iTOF-MRPC at CEE - Mr Yingjie Zhou (USTC)  
14:20 Resistive Plate Chambers for Precise Measurement of High-Momentum Protons in Short Range Correlations - Manuel Xarepe  
14:40 RPC-SDHCAL status - Francois Lagarde  
15:00 The new HADES ToF Forward Detector - Alberto Blanco Castro (LIP - Laboratorio de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas (PT))  
15:20 Development of a Precise Time and Position Resolutions TOF-tracker RPC for the pi20 Beamline at J-PARC - Ryusuke Uda (Department of Physics, Osaka University)  
15:35 Development of the TOF-RPC for the pi20 beamline at J-PARC - Natsuki Tomida  
15:50 Status of the CBM Time-of-Flight (TOF) project - Ingo-Martin Deppner (Physikalisches Institut der Universität Heidelberg)  
16:10 --- Coffee break ---
16:30 Test results of a real-size RPC for 3rd and 4th stations of Muon Chamber of the Compressed Baryonic Matter Experiment. - Rajesh Ganai (University of Calcutta (IN))  
16:50 RPC detectors to search for long-lived particles with the ANUBIS detector - Jon Burr (University of Cambridge (GB))  
17:10 The RPC in the cosmic ray physics of the next future - Rinaldo Santonico (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT))  
17:30 Sensitivity of MATHUSLA to high-energy cosmic rays - Juan Carlos Arteaga-Velazquez  
18:20
Welcome cocktail (until 19:20)
14:00 INVITED TALK 1: Overview on future Astro-particle Physics - Andreas Haungs  
14:50
New detector ideas - Rinaldo Santonico (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT)) (until 17:15)
14:50 Development of ultra-low mass and high-rate capable RPC based on Diamond-Like Carbon electrodes for MEG II experiment - Kensuke Yamamoto (The University of Tokyo)  
15:15 Development of Resistive Cylindrical Chambers - Roberto Cardarelli (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT))  
15:40 SI-GaAs wafers as resistive electrode for high rate RPC with very low dark count rate - Alessandro Rocchi (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT)) Barbara Liberti (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT)) Roberto Cardarelli (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT))  
16:05 --- Coffee break ---
16:25 The Surface Resistive Plate Counter - Giovanni Bencivenni (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))  
16:50 Picosecond Avalanche Detector - working principle and gain measurement with a proof-of-concept prototype - Lorenzo Paolozzi (CERN)  
17:15
New detector applications - Rinaldo Santonico (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT)) (until 18:15)
17:15 Glass multi-gap RPCs for gamma-ray inspection - Kyong Sei Lee (Korea University (KR))  
17:40 A Large-Area RPC Detector for Muon Tomography - Joao Pedro De Carvalho Saraiva (LIP - Laboratorio de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas (PT))  
14:00
New detector applications - Alberto Blanco (LIP Coimbra) (until 16:25)
14:00 Study of time resolution of MRPC for cosmic rays and 0.511MeV photons - Jianing Liu (Tsinghua university)  
14:25 Muon tomography with resistive plate chambers for geological characterization - Raul Sarmento  
14:50 An RPC-PET brain scanner: first results - Prof. Paulo Fonte (Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partí(LIP-Coimbra))  
15:15 A new readout scheme of reading out RPC and gaseous detectors - Imad Laktineh (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
15:40 Use of pads-based readout RPC for home security applications - Imad Laktineh (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
16:05 --- Coffee break ---
16:25
New R&D schema: ECFA detector R&D roadmap (until 17:25)
16:25 ECFA detector R&D roadmap - Leszek Ropelewski (CERN)  
16:50 Discussion  
14:00
Poster session (until 16:00)
14:00 --- Coffee break ---
14:00 Gas recirculation systems for RPC detectors: from LHC experiments to laboratory set-ups - Beatrice Mandelli (CERN)  
14:05 Design and performance study of a sealed mosaic high-rate MRPC - Ms Qiunan Zhang  
14:10 Study of industrial epoxy resins with graphene nanotubes for the realization of low resistivity electrodes of RPC detectors - Alessandro Rocchi (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT))  
14:20 Measurements of fluoride production in Resistive Plate Chambers - Gianluca Rigoletti (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))  
14:25 An effective method for measuring the stiffness of a sealed vessel that can be applied to RPC gas volumes. - Enrico Pastori (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT)) Barbara Liberti (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT))  
14:35 Timing RPC for thermal neutron detection with 3D position sensitivity - Dr Luís Margato (LIP-Coimbra, Departamento de Física, Universidade de Coimbra)  
14:40 Prototype of Industrialized RPC for J-PARC E50 experiment - Chia-Yu Hsieh (Academia Sinica (TW))  
14:50 Oil-free bakelite Resistive Plate Chambers- A solution to several age old problems. - Rajesh Ganai (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany)  
14:55 Development of new offline analysis for the monitoring of RPC detector at the ATLAS experiment parameters during LHC Run3 - Antonio Giannini (University of Science and Technology of China (CN))  
15:00 The readout panels for the BI-RPC project for ATLAS phase 2 upgrade - Marco Schioppa (Universita degli Studi della Calabria) Marco Schioppa (Universita della Calabria e INFN (IT))  
15:10 Test of materials for the production of thin-gap RPCs - Timur Turkovic (Max Planck Society (DE)) Timur Turkovic (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)  
15:15 Characterization and Simulation of Glass Multigap RPCs - Severiano Carpinteyro Bernardino (Universidad Iberoamericana (MX))  
15:15 Gas gain properties of the CMS iRPC chamber - Tahany Elhussieny Abdelhameid (ENHEP Egyptian Network of High Energy Physics (EG))  
15:40 CMS iRPC Backend and Front-End Electronics joint test - Jianing Song (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))  
15:40 Strip Printed Circuit Board - PCB validation and properties for CMS iRPC during Phase 2 Upgrade - Gustave Pacome Garde (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
15:41 New RPC Link System Remote Programming for the CMS Phase 2 Upgrade - Behzad Boghrati (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IR))  
15:42 New Slow Control Emulator for the CMS Phase 2 Upgrade of the RPC Link System - Behzad Boghrati (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IR))  
15:43 CMS Phase 2 Upgrade of the RPC Link System - Review of the Link Board and Control Board firmware and System validation - Behzad Boghrati (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IR))  
15:44 Development of a sealed MRPC with high time resolution - Kai Sun (Tsinghua University)  
15:45 RPC based tracking system at CERN GIF++ facility - Kevin Mota Amarilo (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (BR))  
15:46 Edge Effects in the CMS iRPC detectors - CMS Collaboration  
15:47 An FPGA-based clusterization algorithm for the CMS iRPC detector - Qingfeng Hou (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))  
15:48 ML-based tool for CMS RPC currents quality monitoring - Elton Shumka (University of Sofia - St. Kliment Ohridski (BG))  
15:49 Angular Dependence of Cosmic Muon Flux - Experimental Measurement and Simulation - Souvik Chattopadhay (Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata)  
15:50 MONTE CARLO STUDIES OF ECO-FRIENDLY GAS MIXTURES FOR RPC DETECTORS USING GEANT4+GARFIELD++ - Marco Antonio Dıaz Maldonado (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM)  
15:51 Development of Hybrid Resistive Plate Chambers - Burak Bilki (Beykent University (TR), The University of Iowa (US))  
15:52 Signal Integrality Analysis of Sealed MRPC for Muongraphy - daming liu (Tsinghua University)  
15:53 A new scheme and first results for the implementation of a low-cost Gas recirculation system for the RPCs chamber. - Barbara Liberti (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT)) Enrico Pastori (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT))  
15:54 Aging studies for the CMS Improved Resistive Plate Chambers - Mapse Barroso Ferreira Filho (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (BR))  
15:00 International Advisory Committee meeting   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
19:30
Social dinner (until 22:30)
12:40 Summary talk - Roberto Cardarelli (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT)) Ingo-Martin Deppner (Physikalisches Institut der Universität Heidelberg)  
13:05
Young researcher Awards (until 13:45)
13:05 Best posters  
13:25 Best presentations  
13:45 group picture of participants