ALICE ITS Upgrades

Sunday, May 29, 2011 - 9:00 AM


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
May 29, 2011
AM
9:00 AM Introduction  
9:05 AM
STAR HFT (until 9:55 AM)
9:05 AM Physics goals and Tracking Algorithms - Jim Thomas (Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionen forschung mbH (GSI))  
Slides
9:45 AM discussion  
9:55 AM
ALICE ITS Upgrade (until 12:30 PM)
9:55 AM Physics motivations - Andrea Dainese (INFN Padova) Gianluca Usai (NA60)  
Slides
10:25 AM discussion  
10:35 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:55 AM D0 and LambdaC as benchmark channels - Andrea Rossi (Sezione di Padova (INFN)-Universita e INFN) Magnus Mager (CERN) Cristina Terrevoli (Universita degli Studi di Bari-Universita & INFN, Bari)  
Slides
11:25 AM discussion  
11:35 AM Detector specifications and performance studies - Dr Giuseppe Bruno (University and INFN, Bari, Italy) Dr Stefan Rossegger (CERN)  
12:15 PM discussion  
PM
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
STAR HFT (until 3:30 PM)
2:00 PM Detector layout, mechanics and cooling - Jim Thomas (Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionen forschung mbH (GSI))  
Slides
2:30 PM ULTIMATE chip - Dr Christine HU-GUO (DRS-IPHC (IReS), University of Strasbourg, CNRS-IN2P3) Dr Marc Winter (Institut de Recherches Subatomiques (IReS))  
Slides
3:00 PM Readout electronics: architecture and main components - Xiangming Sun (CCNU)  
Slides
3:30 PM --- Coffee ---
3:50 PM
ALICE ITS Upgrade (until 6:30 PM)
3:50 PM Monolithic and hybrid technologies for pixel detectors - Petra Riedler (CERN) Angelo Rivetti (INFN, Torino) Marc Winter (Institut de Recherches Subatomiques (IReS))  
4:30 PM discussion  
4:40 PM Technologies for strips detector - Giacomo Contin (Dipartimento di Fisica-Universita degli Studi di Trieste / INFN Sezione di Trieste)  
Slides
5:00 PM Considerations on integration, mechanics and cooling - Dr Romualdo Santoro (Univ. + INFN) Diego Perini (CERN) Arturo Tauro (CERN)  
Slides
5:25 PM Involvement of CCNU in the ITS upgrade activities