Name: 8th Workshop on LHCb Upgrade II
Start: 2025-03-26T12:45:00+01:00
End: 2025-03-28T17:30:00+01:00
Location: Heidelberg University

8th Workshop on LHCb Upgrade II

from Wednesday, 26 March 2025 (12:45) to Friday, 28 March 2025 (17:30)

Monday, 24 March 2025
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
Wednesday, 26 March 2025

12:45 Registration: & Lunch
& Lunch
12:45 - 13:45
Room: Building 227 - HS1 / Building 226 - breaks
13:45 Welcome and Introduction
13:45 - 15:15
Room: Building 227 - HS1 / Building 226 - breaks
Contributions

13:45 Local introduction - Stephanie Hansmann-Menzemer (Heidelberg University (DE)) Ulrich Uwer (Heidelberg University (DE))

14:00 Status of Scoping Document review and next steps - Timothy Gershon (University of Warwick (GB))

14:20 Theory talk - Alexander Lenz Alexander Lenz (IPPP, Durham)

14:50 Requirements and capabilities for Heavy Ion physics - Benjamin Audurier (Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives - CEA)
15:15 Tracking: Tracking 1
Tracking 1
15:15 - 16:05
Room: Building 227 - HS1 / Building 226 - breaks
Contributions

15:15 VELO design and performance - Adriano Lai (Universita e INFN, Cagliari (IT))

15:40 VELO technology and roadmap to TDR - Edgar Lemos Cid (CERN)
16:05 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:05 - 16:30
Room: Building 227 - HS1 / Building 226 - breaks
16:30 Tracking: Tracking 2
Tracking 2
16:30 - 18:30
Room: Building 227 - HS1 / Building 226 - breaks
Contributions

16:30 MAPS design and technology (UP, MT-Pixel) - Eva Vilella Figueras

16:55 MT-SciFi design and technology, including cooling - Guido Haefeli (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))

17:20 MS design and technology, including potential LS3 installation - Marcin Chrzaszcz (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

17:45 Roadmap to TDR - Marina Artuso (Syracuse University (US))

18:10 Discussion
18:30 Coffee Break: Welcome drink
Welcome drink
18:30 - 19:00
Room: Building 227 - HS1 / Building 226 - breaks
Thursday, 27 March 2025
08:30 PID: PID 1
PID 1
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Building 227 - HS1 / Building 226 - breaks
Contributions

08:30 RICH design and technology (including LS3 progress) - Massimiliano Fiorini (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT))

08:55 TORCH design and technology - Thomas Blake (University of Warwick)

09:20 RICH+TORCH performance - Sajan Easo (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

09:45 RICH+TORCH roadmap to TDR - Antonis Papanestis (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Building 227 - HS1 / Building 226 - breaks
11:00 PID: PID 2
PID 2
11:00 - 13:00
Room: Building 227 - HS1 / Building 226 - breaks
Contributions

11:00 PicoCal design and technology (including LS3 progress) - Loris Martinazzoli (CERN)

11:25 PicoCal performance and roadmap to TDR - Philipp Roloff (CERN)

11:50 Muon design and technology (including potential LS3 HCAL removal) - Francesco Debernardis (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))

12:15 Muon performance (including potential HCAL removal) and roadmap to TDR - Alessia Satta (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT))

12:40 Discussion
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Building 227 - HS1 / Building 226 - breaks
14:00 Data processing: Online and RTA
Online and RTA
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Building 227 - HS1 / Building 226 - breaks
Contributions

14:00 Online design, technology and infrastructure including LS3 enhancements - Tommaso Colombo (CERN)

14:25 Discussion slot on Online - Conor Fitzpatrick (The University of Manchester (GB)) Federico Alessio (CERN) Renaud Le Gac (CPPM CNRS/IN2P3)

14:40 Outcome of the Computing Workshop - Dorothea Vom Bruch (Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS/IN2P3, CPPM, Marseille, France)

14:55 Requirements for a U2 Trigger - Renato Quagliani (CERN)

15:10 Discussion slot on RTA - Conor Fitzpatrick (The University of Manchester (GB)) Federico Alessio (CERN) Renaud Le Gac (CPPM CNRS/IN2P3)

15:25 Roadmap to "not-a-TDR" - Niko Neufeld (CERN)

15:40 Discussion slot on "not-a-TDR" - Conor Fitzpatrick (The University of Manchester (GB)) Federico Alessio (CERN) Renaud Le Gac (CPPM CNRS/IN2P3)
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Building 227 - HS1 / Building 226 - breaks
16:30 Infrastructure: Infrastructure
Infrastructure
16:30 - 18:30
Room: Building 227 - HS1 / Building 226 - breaks
Contributions

16:30 Machine infrastructure and performance - Matteo Solfaroli Camillocci (CERN)

16:55 Detector cooling - Wiktor Byczynski (CERN)

17:20 Radiation issues - Sacha Emile R Medaer (CERN)

17:45 General infrastructure and sustainability considerations - Heinrich Schindler (CERN)

18:10 Discussion
19:30 Social Event - Workshop Dinner
Social Event - Workshop Dinner
19:30 - 21:30
The conference dinner will take place at Palais Prinz Carl in the old town of Heidelberg. The address is Kornmarkt 1, 69117 Heidelberg.
Friday, 28 March 2025
08:30 Data processing: Offline computing and software
Offline computing and software
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Building 227 - HS1 / Building 226 - breaks
Contributions

08:30 DPA vision for Run 5 - Nicole Skidmore (University of Warwick)

08:55 Simulation for the TDRs - Michal Kreps (University of Warwick (GB))

09:20 Simulation R&D needed for U2 - Gloria Corti (CERN)

09:45 Offline computing vision for Run 5 - Ben Couturier (CERN)

10:10 Discussion
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Building 227 - HS1 / Building 226 - breaks
11:00 Tracking: Tracking 3
Tracking 3
11:00 - 12:00
Room: Building 227 - HS1 / Building 226 - breaks
Contributions

11:00 Tracking performance (long tracks including pp & PbPb) - Christoph Michael Langenbruch (CERN) Christoph Michael Langenbruch (Heidelberg University (DE))

11:20 Tracking performance (downstream and upstream) - Xuhao Yuan (Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, China)

11:40 Discussion
12:00 Welcome and Introduction: Closing
Closing
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Building 227 - HS1 / Building 226 - breaks
Contributions

12:00 Summary & vision - Marco Gersabeck (Albert Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg (DE))

12:35 Wrap up - Stephanie Hansmann-Menzemer (Heidelberg University (DE)) Timothy Gershon (University of Warwick (GB)) Ulrich Uwer (Heidelberg University (DE))
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Building 227 - HS1 / Building 226 - breaks