4th DRD4 Collaboration Meeting

from Monday 13 October 2025 (13:00) to Friday 17 October 2025 (13:05)
CERN (222/R-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
13 Oct 2025
14 Oct 2025
15 Oct 2025
16 Oct 2025
17 Oct 2025
AM
09:00
Work Package 3 (restricted meeting to WP3 participants only) - Cardinale, Roberta (INFN e Universita Genova (IT)) (until 11:30)
09:00
Work Package 5 (restricted meeting to WP5 participants only) - Leverington, Blake (Heidelberg University (DE)) (until 11:00) (2/R-030)
11:30
Work Package 4 (restricted meeting to WP4 participants only) -Prof. Lapington, Jon (University of Leicester (GB)) (until 13:30)
09:00
Working Group 1 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity) - Retiere, Fabrice (until 11:00)
09:00 High-count rate saturation behaviour in MCP-PMTs - Prof. 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 ---
11:20
Working Group 1 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity) - Retiere, Fabrice (until 13:00)
11:20 Compendium - Physical principles and common architectures - Prof. 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))  
09:00
Working Group 4 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity) - Martinelli, Maurizio (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT)) (until 10:40)
09:00 Flare: an open source data workflow orchestration tool - Harris, Cameron Desai, Aman (Adelaide University (AU))  
09:25 A generic analysis framework for DRD’s test beams activities, TDAnalyser - Potok, Onur (Istanbul University (TR)) Kaynak, Berkan (Istanbul University (TR)) Forthomme, Laurent (AGH University of Krakow (PL))  
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)) Spadaro Norella, Elisabetta (INFN e Universita Genova (IT)) Petrolini, Alessandro (Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Genova and INFN - ITALY)  
10:40
DRD4 Plenary Meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community) - Fiorini, Massimiliano (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT)) (until 11:10)
10:40 Report on WP2 activities - Laktineh, Imad (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
11:10 --- Coffee break ---
11:30
Working Group 2 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community) - Easo, Sajan (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB)) (until 13:10)
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))  
09:00
DRD4 Plenary Meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community) - Fiorini, Massimiliano (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT)) (until 10:50)
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 - Prof. Lapington, Jon (University of Leicester (GB))  
10:30 Report on WP5 activities - Leverington, Blake (Heidelberg University (DE))  
10:50 --- Coffee break ---
11:20
DRD4 Plenary Meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community) - Fiorini, Massimiliano (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT)) (until 12:30)
11:20 DRD4 test-beam campaigns - Jakobsen, Sune (CERN)  
11:40 Collaboration-wide discussion (on common facilities, transversal activities, simulations, outreach, training, etc.)  
PM
13:00
Work Package 1 (restricted meeting to WP1 participants only) - Pestotnik, Rok (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI)) (until 17:00)
17:00 --- Coffee break ---
17:20
Work Package 2 (restricted meeting to WP2 participants only) - Laktineh, Imad (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) (until 19:20)
13:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:30
DRD4 Plenary Meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community) - Fiorini, Massimiliano (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT)) (until 15:40)
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) - Retiere, Fabrice (until 16:40)
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 ---
17:00
Collaboration Board (for Collaboration Board members only) - Wilkinson, Guy (University of Oxford (GB)) (until 20:30)
13:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Working Group 1 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity) - Retiere, Fabrice (until 15:50)
14:00 Fraunhofer BSI SPAD array  
14:40 Sherbrooke 3D integrated SPAD arrays - Prof. Charlebois, Serge (Université de Sherbrooke)  
15:20 Compendium - SiPM - Dalmasson, Jacopo Kachru, Priyanka  
15:50 --- Coffee break ---
16:10
Working Group 1 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity) - Retiere, Fabrice (until 18:00)
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 ---
13:10 --- Lunch break ---
14:10
Working Group 3 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity) - Tessarotto, Fulvio (Universita e INFN Trieste (IT)) (until 15:50)
14:10 Status and perspectives of hydrophobic aerogel production - Dr 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 ---
16:10
Working Group 3 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity) - Tessarotto, Fulvio (Universita e INFN Trieste (IT)) (until 17:00)
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 - Pezzulo, Serena (INFN e Universita Genova (IT)) Cardinale, Roberta (INFN e Universita Genova (IT))  
17:00
Working Group 5 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity) - Jakobsen, Sune (CERN) Loparco, Francesco (Universita e INFN (IT)) (until 17:50)
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) (until 18:40)
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 - Penzo, Aldo (University of Iowa (US)) Ozkorucuklu, Suat (Istanbul University (TR))