Name: 1st DRD4 Collaboration Meeting
Start: 2024-06-17T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-06-20T13:30:00+02:00
Location: CERN

1st DRD4 Collaboration Meeting

from Monday, 17 June 2024 (14:00) to Thursday, 20 June 2024 (13:30)

Monday, 17 June 2024

14:00 Work Package 1 (restricted meeting to WP1 participants only)

14:00 - 16:00
Room: 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie

16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:15
Room: 222/R-001

16:15 Work Package 2 (restricted meeting to WP2 participants only)

16:15 - 18:15
Room: 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie
Tuesday, 18 June 2024

08:45 Work Package 3 (restricted meeting to WP3 participants only)

08:45 - 10:45
Room: 222/R-001

10:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:45 - 11:00
Room: 222/R-001

11:00 Work Package 4 (restricted meeting to WP4 participants only)

11:00 - 13:00
Room: 222/R-001

Work Package 5 (restricted meeting to WP5 participants only)

11:00 - 13:00
Room: 4/S-056

13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00
Room: 222/R-001
14:00 DRD4 Plenary Meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community)
14:00 - 16:00
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

14:00 Introduction and DRD4 general news - Massimiliano Fiorini (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT))

14:10 Olav Ullaland - Guy Wilkinson (University of Oxford (GB))

14:15 The RDC2 initiative in the USA - Flavio Cavanna (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

14:30 Report on WP1 activities - Rok Pestotnik (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))

15:00 Report on WP2 activities - Imad Laktineh (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
16:00 Collaboration Board (for Collaboration Board members only)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

16:00 DRD4 Collaboration Board Meeting (for CB members only) - Guy Wilkinson (University of Oxford (GB))
Wednesday, 19 June 2024
09:00 Working Group 1 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)
09:00 - 10:45
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

09:00 Introduction to Working Group 1 - Fabrice Retiere

09:05 Digital SiPM overview - Claudio Bruschini

09:25 SPAD optimization - the next frontier - Fabrice Retiere

09:45 Status and Limitations of MCP-PMT Performance - Albert Lehmann (University Erlangen-Nuremberg)

10:05 Radio Frequency PMT - Amur Margaryan (A. I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute) AANL)

10:25 Development of innovative PET technologies enhanced by the use of Cherenkov photons - Viatcheslav Sharyy (IRFU, CEA)
10:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:45 - 11:00
Room: 222/R-001
11:00 Working Group 1 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)
11:00 - 13:00
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

11:00 Quantum efficiency measurements on PMTs - Andreino Simonelli

11:20 Timing measurement on PMTs/SiPMs - Lishuang Ma

11:40 Python framework for SiPM, APD and MPPC simulations - Jesus Pena Rodriguez (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)

11:55 Investigating and optimising MCP-PMT timing, nuisance and lifetime - Ping Chen

12:10 Test and characterisation of Large Area MCPs - Federica Oliva (The University of Edinburgh (GB))

12:25 Precision Timing with quartz bars/fibers and segmented photodetectors - Suat Ozkorucuklu (Istanbul University (TR))

12:40 General discussion about photodetector characterization
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00
Room: 222/R-001
14:00 Working Group 1 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)
14:00 - 15:00
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

14:00 Radiation-hard SiPM - Yuri Musienko (University of Notre Dame (US))

14:30 General discussion about radiation damage characterization
15:00 Working Group 2 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)
15:00 - 15:55
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

15:00 Introduction to Working Group 2 - Sajan Easo (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

15:05 Development of low-GWP RICH radiator gasses - Gregory Hallewell (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

15:35 New RICH concept for ALADDIN - Jascha Peter Grabowski (University of Bonn (DE))
15:55 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:55 - 16:10
Room: 222/R-001
16:10 Working Group 3 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)
16:10 - 17:35
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

16:10 Introduction to Working Group 3 - Fulvio Tessarotto (Universita e INFN Trieste (IT))

16:15 Strategies for reduction of greenhouse gas emission from particle detectors - Beatrice Mandelli (CERN)

16:35 The R&D on Aerogel for ePIC - Marco Contalbrigo (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT))

16:55 The FASTIC developments - David Gascon (University of Barcelona (ES))

17:15 Electronics development at OMEGA - Christophe De La Taille (OMEGA (FR))
17:35 Working Group 4 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)
17:35 - 18:40
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

17:35 Introduction to Working Group 4 - Maurizio Martinelli (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))

17:40 How AI can play a role in detector design optimisation - Tommaso Dorigo (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))

18:00 Detector Simulation in the ClearMind project - Viatcheslav Sharyy (IRFU, CEA)

18:20 Prospects on RICH simulation with GPUs - Sajan Easo (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))
19:00 Social dinner: directions
Social dinner: directions
19:00 - 19:20
Room: 222/R-001

19:30 Social dinner
Social dinner
19:30 - 22:00
Room: 222/R-001
Thursday, 20 June 2024
09:00 DRD4 Plenary Meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community)
09:00 - 10:30
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

09:00 Report on WP4 activities - Jon Lapington (University of Leicester (GB))

09:30 Report on WG5 activities - Blake Leverington (Heidelberg University (DE))

10:00 Report on WP3 activities - Roberta Cardinale (INFN e Universita Genova (IT))
10:30 Working Group 5 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)
10:30 - 11:45
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

10:30 Introduction to Working Group 5 - Sune Jakobsen (CERN)

10:35 Transition radiation detector developments - Anatoli Romaniouk (University of Innsbruck (AT))

11:05 MC simulation of TRDs based on GaAs sensors: tools and status - Vladimir Tikhomirov (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU))

11:25 Characterization of pixelated high-Z sensors for X- and gamma-ray detection - Benedikt Ludwig Bergmann (Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ))
11:45 Working Group 6 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)
11:45 - 11:55
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

11:45 Introduction to Working Group 6 - Suat Ozkorucuklu (Istanbul University (TR))
11:55 DRD4 Plenary Meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community)
11:55 - 13:00
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

11:55 Report from the CB Chair - Guy Wilkinson (University of Oxford (GB))

12:20 General discussion on: common facilities, transversal activities, test-beams - Massimiliano Fiorini (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT))

12:50 Conclusive remarks