Forum on Tracking Detector Mechanics 2025

from Monday, 16 June 2025 (11:00) to Friday, 20 June 2025 (15:30)
Merchant Venturer's Building (1.11/1.11a)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
16 Jun 2025
17 Jun 2025
18 Jun 2025
19 Jun 2025
20 Jun 2025
AM
11:00
Registration (until 13:00)
09:00
Forum 2025 - session 2 (until 12:50)
09:00 Status of CMS phase2 TBPX detector mechanics: Layer 3 prototype and final External Cylinder construction and testing, thermal tests on the mechanical structure - Daniele Benvenuti (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))  
09:40 Ultra-light ladder design for the CMS Inner Tracker TBPX Layer1 replacement - Pier Filippo Cianchetta (Universita e INFN, Perugia (IT))  
10:10 HL-LHC CMS Barrel Timing Layer and Tracker Support Tube: Mechanical Loading Tests, Metrology, Integration and Installation Updates - Sushrut Rajendra Karmarkar (Purdue University (US))  
10:40 --- Coffee ---
11:10 Overview of Joining Methods and Process Management in the Production of CO$_2$ Cooling Pipes for the TB2S detector - CMS Tracker Upgrade - Joao Batista Lopes (CERN)  
11:40 Experimental tests on TBPX cooling loops at different CO2 vapour qualities - Mr Lorenzo Bistoni (Universita e INFN, Perugia (IT))  
12:10 Temperature dependent thermal conductivity measurements and their effects on the thermal management predictions for CMS TFPX Dees - Yuvraj Chauhan Benjamin Edward Pulver (Purdue University)  
12:40 MCD Light-Weighting - Andrew Mills (Mills Carbon Design)  
09:00
Forum 2025 - session 4 (until 12:30)
09:00 Embedding vascular networks in carbon composites for tracking detector thermal management - Robert Oxford Pope (University of Bristol)  
09:30 Developments in the Mechanical design of the LHCb VELO Upgrade II - Yutaro Takahashi (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
10:00 Ultra-lightweight outer pixel tracker for the Mu3e experiment - Ashley McDougall  
10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:00 Thermomechanical analysis of the barrel electromagnetic calorimeter of the ALLEGRO full detector concept at the FCC-ee collider - Fernando Aretio Zárate (CERN)  
11:30 Multi-Stage Structural Optimization for FCC-ee Interaction Region Support Structures - Francesco Fransesini (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))  
09:00
DRD 8 collaboration meeting - Joao Batista Lopes (CERN) Burkhard Schmidt (CERN) Diego Alvarez Feito (CERN) (until 10:30)
09:00 Introduction to the DRD8 part of the meeting - Burkhard Schmidt (CERN)  
09:20 Introduction WP4 - Diego Alvarez Feito (CERN) Joao Batista Lopes (CERN)  
09:40 Mixed Reality 3D Integration Studies for CERN Accelerators - Julie Coupard (CERN)  
10:05 3D automatic representation based on the planning progress - Fernando Baltasar Dos Santos Pedrosa (CERN) Joao Filipe Carvalhais Dos Santos De Matos (Universidade do Porto (PT))  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
DRD 8 collaboration meeting - Sushrut Rajendra Karmarkar (Purdue University (US)) Adam Dominic Lowe (University of Oxford (GB)) (until 12:30)
11:00 Introduction WP2 Goals, Milestones and Deliverables - Adam Dominic Lowe (University of Oxford (GB)) Sushrut Rajendra Karmarkar (Purdue University (US))  
11:05 Updates on Project 2.2 - Material Characterization - Sushrut Rajendra Karmarkar (Purdue University (US))  
11:15 Updates on Project 2.2 - Database development efforts - Nicola Pacifico (CERN)  
11:25 Biomimetic, hierarchical composites for novel structures - Laura Rhian Pickard (University of Bristol)  
11:50 Updates on Project 2.1 Design specification for future tracking detectors mechanics - Adam Dominic Lowe (University of Oxford (GB)) Sushrut Rajendra Karmarkar (Purdue University (US))  
12:10 Industry Partners - Composites In Motorsports - Brick Kiln Composites - Adam Dominic Lowe (University of Oxford (GB))  
09:00 DRD8 Collaboration Board meeting  
10:00 --- Coffee break ---
10:30 DRD 8 collaboration meeting - plenary session closeout  
PM
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Forum 2025 - session 1 (until 18:15)
14:00 Essential Information - Joel Goldstein (University of Bristol (GB))  
14:05 Welcome - Prof. Ole Thomsen (Bristol Composites Institute)  
14:20 Design and Testing of the Outer Barrel Stave for the ePIC Silicon Vertex Tracker (SVT) - Adam Huddart  
14:50 Development of Lightweight Forward Discs for the ePIC SVT at the EIC: Mechanical and Thermal Design, Prototyping, and Testing - Nicole Apadula (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
15:20 Carbon Foam Air-Cooling for ALICE ITS3: Recent Progress and possible air cooling solutions for the ALICE LS3 and LS4 upgrades - Massimo Angeletti (CERN)  
16:00 --- Coffee ---
16:20 ATLAS ITk strip staves: the long and rocky road from R&D to production - Anthony Weidberg (University of Oxford (GB))  
16:50 Production of the ATLAS ITk Strip End-Cap global structures for the Phase-II LHC Upgrade - Max Nicolaas Van't Hek (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
17:20 Failure Analysis and Testing of Support Rails for the ATLAS Pixel Detector - Todd Claybaugh (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
17:50 High-Precision Engineering for the ATLAS Inner Tracker Outer Endcap - Rob Chapple (The University of Manchester (GB)) Rob Chapple (The University of Manchester (GB))  
18:15 --- Drinks reception ---
12:40 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Forum 2025 - session 3 (until 18:10)
14:00 Capillaries production and R&D for ATLAS ITk and CMS - Patryk Krzysztof Paterak (Tadeusz Kosciuszko Cracow University of Technology (PL)) Arianna Eugeni (Universita e INFN, Perugia (IT))  
14:40 Large scale production of the 2PACL cooling sub-systems - Krzysztof Sliwa (CERN)  
15:10 Commissioning, Operation and Future Possibilities of the ATLAS and CMS DEMO Inheritance CO2 Cooling Systems - Youri Penders (CERN)  
15:40 --- Coffee ---
16:10 Invited Speaker: Innovative RTS composites and benefits for extreme environments - Olivia Stodieck (iCOMAT)  
17:00 Importance of an adequate control system for the operation and commissioning of complex cooling systems - Viren Bhanot (CERN) Lukasz Zwalinski (CERN)  
17:40 CO$_2$ Surface Storage: safety (for operation, detector, and personnel) implications on the design of the system - Yann Herpin (CERN)  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Forum 2025 - session 5 (until 17:00)
18:00 --- Conference dinner ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30
DRD 8 collaboration meeting - Fabrizio Palla Corrado Gargiulo (CERN) Fabrizio Palla (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT)) (until 15:30)
13:30 Introduction with confirmation of Milestones e Deliverables, and discussion on Institute commitments - Fabrizio Palla Fabrizio Palla (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))  
13:50 Experience at SuperKEKB with Interaction Region Integration - Shuji Tanaka Shuji Tanaka (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))  
14:10 Mock up status and perspectives at Frascati - Manuela Boscolo (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))  
14:30 Composite beam pipes with focus on secondary vacuum and cooling envelope for FCC-ee - Rodrigo Jose Da Silva  
14:50 Design and system test of a cooling system for the FCC-ee vertex detector - Gherardo Ammirabile (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))  
15:10 Robotics status and perspectives - Luca Bernardi  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
DRD 8 collaboration meeting - Oscar Augusto De Aguiar Francisco (The University of Manchester (GB)) Bart Verlaat (CERN) (until 18:00)
16:00 Introduction WP3 - Bart Verlaat (CERN) Oscar Augusto De Aguiar Francisco (The University of Manchester (GB))  
16:20 Exploring the heat transfer potential of supercritical CO_2 - Ms Camila Rocio Pedano Medina (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))  
16:40 Experimental assessment of a cascade refrigeration system CO$_2$-Krypton for ultra-low temperature detector cooling - Paolo Petagna (CERN) Luca Contiero Luca Contiero (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) (NO))  
17:00 Development of embedded microchannels at CNM towards full compatibility with CMOS sensors - Javier Fernandez-Tejero (Institut de Microelectrònica de Barcelona (IMB-CNM, CSIC) (ES))  
17:20 Development of hydraulic interconnection and cooling supports with 3D technologies - Giovanni Calderini (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Giovanni Calderini (LPNHE-Paris, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
17:40 Development of a lightweight self-cooled Silicon pixel detector - Fabrizio Palla (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))  
18:00 DRD8 Technical Committee meeting  
12:00 --- Lunch ---