Name: 4th DRD4 Collaboration Meeting
Start: 2025-10-13T13:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-10-17T13:05:00+02:00
Location: CERN

4th DRD4 Collaboration Meeting

from Monday, 13 October 2025 (13:00) to Friday, 17 October 2025 (13:05)

Monday, 13 October 2025

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

13:00 - 17:00
Room: 222/R-001

17:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
17:00 - 17:20
Room: 222/R-001

17:20 Work Package 2 (restricted meeting to WP2 participants only)

17:20 - 19:20
Room: 222/R-001
Tuesday, 14 October 2025

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

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

Work Package 5 (restricted meeting to WP5 participants only)

09:00 - 11:00
Room: 2/R-030

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 - 15:40
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

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

14:55 Report on WP1 activities - Pestotnik, Rok (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))
15:40 Working Group 1 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)
15:40 - 16:40
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

15:40 Compendium or review - next step of the process

15:50 Status of document and feedback about process - Romano, Angela (University of Birmingham (GB))

16:05 Review process and schedule update - Retiere, Fabrice

16:15 Gap: Hyrbrid photo-detector - Romano, Angela (University of Birmingham (GB))

16:25 Gap: Emerging or unconventional technologies (WG6) - Retiere, Fabrice
16:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:40 - 17:00
Room: 222/R-001

17:00 Collaboration Board (for Collaboration Board members only)

17:00 - 20:30
Room: 222/R-001
Wednesday, 15 October 2025
09:00 Working Group 1 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)
09:00 - 11:00
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

09:00 High-count rate saturation behaviour in MCP-PMTs - Chen, Ping

09:20 FPGA TDC for TOF-PET detector based on FPMT - Ning, Zhe

09:40 A Timing ASIC for TOF-PET application - Yan, Xiongbo (Institute of High Energy Physics)

10:00 Thermal Cesium Release in PMTs Revealed by Resonant Laser Spectroscopy and Its Correlation with Quantum Efficiency - Simonelli, Andreino

10:20 Compendium - Motivation - Fiorini, Massimiliano (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT))

10:30 Compendium - Characterization methods/setups and standardization - qians, Sen Qian
11:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:20
Room: 222/R-001
11:20 Working Group 1 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)
11:20 - 13:00
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

11:20 Compendium - Physical principles and common architectures - Lapington, Jon (University of Leicester (GB))

11:55 Compendium - Photo-multiplier Tube - qians, Sen Qian

12:30 Compendium - Microchannel Plate Photomultiplier Tubes (MCP-PMTs) - Romano, Angela (University of Birmingham (GB))
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 - 15:50
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

14:00 Fraunhofer BSI SPAD array

14:40 Sherbrooke 3D integrated SPAD arrays - Charlebois, Serge (Université de Sherbrooke)

15:20 Compendium - SiPM - Dalmasson, Jacopo Kachru, Priyanka
15:50 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:50 - 16:10
Room: 222/R-001
16:10 Working Group 1 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)
16:10 - 18:00
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

16:10 Exploiting time and spatial correlations to reduce noise in SiPM-based RICH detectors - Pena Rodriguez, Jesus (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)

16:30 Compendium - SPAD physics process - Raymond, Kurtis

17:00 Compendium - SPAD radiation damage - Ratti, Lodovico (Pavia University and INFN (IT))

17:30 Compendium - Digital SiPM
19:30 Social dinner
Social dinner
19:30 - 22:00
Room: 222/R-001
Thursday, 16 October 2025
09:00 Working Group 4 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)
09:00 - 10:40
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

09:00 Flare: an open source data workflow orchestration tool - Desai, Aman (Adelaide University (AU)) Harris, Cameron

09:25 A generic analysis framework for DRD’s test beams activities, TDAnalyser - Forthomme, Laurent (AGH University of Krakow (PL)) Kaynak, Berkan (Istanbul University (TR)) Potok, Onur (Istanbul University (TR))

09:50 Rings of Light, Speed of AI: YOLO for Cherenkov Reconstruction - Borsato, Martino (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))

10:15 Designing Future RICH Detectors with OpticaEM - Cardinale, Roberta (INFN e Universita Genova (IT)) Petrolini, Alessandro (Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Genova and INFN - ITALY) Spadaro Norella, Elisabetta (INFN e Universita Genova (IT))
10:40 DRD4 Plenary Meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community)
10:40 - 11:10
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

10:40 Report on WP2 activities - Laktineh, Imad (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
11:10 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:10 - 11:30
Room: 222/R-001
11:30 Working Group 2 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community)
11:30 - 13:10
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

11:30 design of the bRICH for ALICE3 - Nicassio, Nicola (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))

11:55 Development of a DIRC like TOF detector at STCF - Lin, Xuesen

12:20 RICH detector for the ALADDIN experiment - Spadaro Norella, Elisabetta (INFN e Universita Genova (IT))

12:45 Update on the prospects for eco-friendly gases for Cherenkov detectors - Hallewell, Gregory (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
13:10 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:10 - 14:10
Room: 222/R-001
14:10 Working Group 3 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)
14:10 - 15:50
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

14:10 Status and perspectives of hydrophobic aerogel production - Tabata, Makoto (Chiba University)

14:35 FastRICH and other ASICs for future photon detectors - Keizer, Floris (CERN)

15:00 Construction and test of the TORCH full-size module prototype - Lehuraux, Marion (University of Warwick (GB))

15:25 Contruction and test of SiPM detector prototypes with ALCOR readout for the ePIC dRICH detector at the EIC - Preghenella, Roberto (INFN, Bologna (IT))
15:50 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:50 - 16:10
Room: 222/R-001
16:10 Working Group 3 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)
16:10 - 17:00
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

16:10 Measurements of CF4 scintillation properties - Brunbauer, Florian Maximilian (CERN)

16:35 An integrated housing with active cooling for SiPM arrays of the next generation RICH Detectors - Cardinale, Roberta (INFN e Universita Genova (IT)) Pezzulo, Serena (INFN e Universita Genova (IT))
17:00 Working Group 5 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)
17:00 - 17:50
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

17:00 Development of a scintillating fiber detector for neutrino experiments - Dieminger, Till (ETH Zurich) Dieminger, Till Conrad (ETH Zurich (CH))

17:25 Towards large scale scintillator based muon systems - Rosati, Stefano (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Sezione di Roma 1) Rosati, Stefano (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))
17:50 Working Group 6 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)
17:50 - 18:40
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

17:50 Time distribution of photoelectrons from different materials - Margaryan, Amur (A. I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute) AANL)

18:10 Progress on Quartz Fiber Detectors - Ozkorucuklu, Suat (Istanbul University (TR)) Penzo, Aldo (University of Iowa (US))
Friday, 17 October 2025
09:00 DRD4 Plenary Meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community)
09:00 - 10:50
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

09:00 Report from the CB Chair - Wilkinson, Guy (University of Oxford (GB))

09:20 Report on WP3 activities - Cardinale, Roberta (INFN e Universita Genova (IT))

09:55 Report on WP4 activities - Lapington, Jon (University of Leicester (GB))

10:30 Report on WP5 activities - Leverington, Blake (Heidelberg University (DE))
10:50 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:50 - 11:20
Room: 222/R-001
11:20 DRD4 Plenary Meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community)
11:20 - 12:30
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

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

11:40 Collaboration-wide discussion (on common facilities, transversal activities, simulations, outreach, training, etc.)