Name: 3rd DRD4 Collaboration Meeting
Start: 2025-04-07T13:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-04-11T13:45:00+02:00
Location: CERN

3rd DRD4 Collaboration Meeting

from Monday, 7 April 2025 (13:00) to Friday, 11 April 2025 (13:45)

Monday, 7 April 2025

13:00 Work Package 1 (restricted meeting to WP1 participants only)

13:00 - 16:00
Room: 222/R-001

16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:20
Room: 222/R-001

16:20 Work Package 2 (restricted meeting to WP2 participants only): https://indico.cern.ch/event/1535705/
https://indico.cern.ch/event/1535705/
16:20 - 19:20
Room: 222/R-001
Tuesday, 8 April 2025

09:00 Work Package 3 (restricted meeting to WP3 participants only)

09:00 - 11:30
Room: 222/R-001

11:30 Work Package 4 (restricted meeting to WP4 participants only)

11:30 - 13:30
Room: 222/R-001

13:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:30 - 14:30
Room: 222/R-001
14:30 DRD4 Plenary Meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community)
14:30 - 17:10
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

14:30 Introduction and DRD4 general news - Fiorini, Massimiliano (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT))

14:40 Winner of the DRD4 logo contest - Wilkinson, Guy (University of Oxford (GB))

14:45 Status of AIDAinnova call and plans - Giacomelli, Paolo (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT)) Giacomelli, Paolo (INFN Sezione di Bologna) Giacomelli, Paolo (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))

15:15 Status of the DRD4 MoU - Fiorini, Massimiliano (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT))

15:50 Report on WP1 activities - Pestotnik, Rok (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))

16:30 Report on WP2 activities - Laktineh, Imad (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
17:10 Coffee break
Coffee break
17:10 - 17:30
Room: 222/R-001

17:30 Collaboration Board (for Collaboration Board members only)

17:30 - 19:30
Room: 222/R-001
Wednesday, 9 April 2025
09:00 Working Group 1
09:00 - 10:50
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

09:00 WG1 Introduction - Retiere, Fabrice

09:10 Reviewing the Performance of Photek's Single Photon Timing Detectors - Markfort, Amelia

09:35 Photonis Fast Timing MCP-PMT - Orlov, Dmitry Orlov, Dmitry (Photonis Netherlands)

09:55 The fast timing 2 inch MCP-PMT with PbF window - Chen, Lingyue

10:20 Detailed study of afterpulses in MCP-PMTs - Costi, Gabriele

10:40 MCP-PMT: Compendium plan - Romano, Angela (University of Birmingham (GB))
10:50 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:50 - 11:10
Room: 222/R-001
11:10 Working Group 1
11:10 - 12:55
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

11:10 Digital SiPM: Photon to Digital Converter - Charlebois, Serge (Université de Sherbrooke)

11:45 Digital SiPM: AQUA - Charbon, Edoardo (EPFL) Charbon, Edoardo

12:10 Digital SiPM in compendium - D'Ascenzo, Nicola (Huazhong University of Science and Technology) Retiere, Fabrice

12:35 Superconducting nanowire - Korzh, Boris (Université de Genève) Korzh, Boris Alexander (Universite de Geneve (CH))
12:55 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:55 - 13:55
Room: 222/R-001
13:55 Working Group 1
13:55 - 16:10
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

14:00 Large area MCPs: performance and new developments - Popecki, Mark (Incom, Inc.)

14:25 Status of LAPPD studies at JSI - Korpar, Samo Korpar, Samo (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))

14:45 SiPMs assessement with application to CBM RiCH - Pena Rodriguez, Jesus (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)

15:05 SPAD array configurations - Gola, Alberto Giacomo (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)

15:30 Single Photon Avalanche Diode: Neutron impact - Gardinovacki, Boris (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))

15:50 Neutron damage on CMOS SPAD - Ratti, Lodovico (Pavia University and INFN (IT))
16:10 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:10 - 16:30
Room: 222/R-001
16:30 Working Group 1
16:30 - 18:15
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

16:30 Optics: getting light into SPAD - Haefeli, Guido (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))

16:50 SPAD Avalanche modeling - Koulosousas, Seraphim

17:10 SPAD Efficiency modeling - de St. Croix, Austin

17:30 SPAD nuisance processes and compendium plan - Lewis, Harry (TRIUMF)

17:55 SPAD/SiPM compendium wrap-up - Retiere, Fabrice
19:00 Social dinner information
Social dinner information
19:00 - 19:10
Room: 222/R-001

19:30 Social dinner
Social dinner
19:30 - 22:00
Room: 222/R-001
Thursday, 10 April 2025
09:00 Working Group 1
09:00 - 10:50
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

09:00 Characterization setups: overview and compendium plan - Qian, Sen (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)) qians, Sen Qian

09:30 Systematic approach of measuring MCP-PMT performance parameters - Lehmann, Albert (University Erlangen-Nuremberg) Lehmann, Albert Alwin (Friedrich Alexander Univ. Erlangen (DE))

10:00 Discussion, plans and scope of work in the compendium. - Retiere, Fabrice
10:50 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:50 - 11:20
Room: 222/R-001
11:20 Working Group 1
11:20 - 12:40
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

11:20 The Status of the PMTs in JUNO - Wang, Wei (Sun Yat-Sen University)

11:45 The various aspects of the PMT in KM3NeT - Simonelli, Andreino

12:10 Status and prospects for the HUNT project - You, xiaohao (IHEP)
12:40 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:40 - 13:40
Room: 222/R-001
13:40 Working Group 3 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)
13:40 - 14:55
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

13:40 ATLAS HGTD ALTIROC ASIC - Seguin-Moreau, Nathalie (OMEGA - Ecole Polytechnique - CNRS/IN2P3)

14:05 Development of multichannel mixed-signal ASICs for SiPM Readout in 110 nm CMOS technology - Durando, Stefano (INFN Torino (IT))

14:30 Optical elements and technologies for RICH applications - Sulc, Miroslav (Technical University of Liberec)
14:55 Working Group 4 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)
14:55 - 16:00
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

14:55 Performance of an Optical TPC Geant4 Simulation with Opticks GPU-Accelerated Photon Propagation - Parmaksiz, Ilker

15:20 CERN Wordpress Infrastructure - Del Pianta, Lorenzo (CERN) Gonzalvo Hidalgo, Alejandro (Valencia Polytechnic University (ES)) Yde, Joachim Valdemar (CERN)
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: 222/R-001
16:30 Working Group 6 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)
16:30 - 18:20
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

16:30 Recent developments of amorphous selenium-based X-ray detectors - Abbaszadeh, Shiva (University of California, Santa Cruz)

16:50 Radio Frequency PMT - Margaryan, Amur (A. I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute) AANL)

17:10 Prospects for advanced fiber detectors - Penzo, Aldo (University of Iowa (US))

17:30 Newly developed fibres for the future - Tichindelean, Teo (Molex)
Friday, 11 April 2025
09:00 Working Group 2 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community)
09:00 - 09:50
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

09:00 Cherenkov detector development for MARQ spectrometer at J-PARC - Suzuki, Ken (University of Osaka)

09:25 Green radiators: Update on gas radiator development - Hallewell, Gregory (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
09:50 Working Group 5 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)
09:50 - 10:50
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

09:50 Summary of “Brainstorming R&D organic scintillators” - Auffray Hillemanns, Etiennette (CERN)

10:10 R&D on scintillating fibers and SPAD array sensor readout for future neutrino experiments - Dieminger, Till Conrad (ETH Zurich (CH))

10:30 Development of a scintillating fiber tracker with SiPM readout for a space-borne cosmic-ray detector - Pillera, Roberta (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))
10:50 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:50 - 11:15
Room: 222/R-001
11:15 DRD4 Plenary Meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community)
11:15 - 13:00
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

11:15 Report from the CB Chair - Wilkinson, Guy (University of Oxford (GB))

11:20 DRD4 test beam and irradiation campaigns - Jakobsen, Sune (CERN)

11:30 Report on WP3 activities - Cardinale, Roberta (INFN e Universita Genova (IT))

11:55 Report on WP4 activities - Lapington, Jon (University of Leicester (GB))

12:20 Report on WP5 activities - Leverington, Blake (Heidelberg University (DE))

12:40 DRD4 common activities: discussion