ACTS4NP - Workshop on ACTS Tracking for Nuclear Physics 2025

from Monday 12 May 2025 (08:40) to Thursday 15 May 2025 (18:00)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (NERSC building (B59-3101))

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
12 May 2025
13 May 2025
14 May 2025
15 May 2025
AM
08:40 --- Registration ---
09:00
Introduction - Shujie Li (Berkeley Lab) (until 09:30) (B70A-3377)
09:30
Presentation (until 12:00) (B70A-3377)
09:30 ACTS Overview - Andreas Salzburger (CERN) Corentin Allaire (IJCLab, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3)  
10:30 --- Break ---
11:00 Integration in an experiment: The ATLAS example - Paul Gessinger (CERN)  
08:40 --- Coffee break ---
09:00
Experiment specific discussion (until 11:30) (70A-3377)
09:00
Tour to NERSC and 88inch Cyclotron (until 11:00)
09:00 NERSC  
10:00 88inch  
08:40 --- Coffee break ---
09:00
Topical discussion - Shujie Li (Berkeley Lab) (until 12:00)
09:00 Data structure: Interfacing ACTS and your experiement - Wouter Deconinck  
10:15 --- Break: group photo ---
10:45 Detector alignment - Joe Osborn (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
08:40 --- Coffee break ---
09:00
Topical discussion - Corentin Allaire (IJCLab, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3) (until 12:00)
09:00 ACTS algorithms (Ambiguity solver) - Corentin Allaire (IJCLab, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3)  
09:30 Exploring new directions in enhancing the ACTS parameter optimization suite - Rocky Bala Garg (Stanford University (US))  
10:00 --- Break ---
10:30 Graph Neural Network - Jay Chan (LBNL)  
11:00 Discussion: ML/DL with ACTS  
PM
12:00
Lunch (until 13:30)
13:30
Experiment specific discussion - Andreas Salzburger (CERN) (until 15:35) (70A-3377)
13:30 ACTS tracking for EIC-ePIC detector - Dmitry Kalinkin  
13:55 Development of ACTS based tracking for multi-TPC at Tagged Deep Inelastic Scattering experiment - Dmitry Romanov   (70A-3377)
14:20 LDMX - Elizabeth Berzin (Stanford University)   (70A-3377)
14:45 Tracking for SoLID - Zhongling Ji (Syracuse University)   (70A-3377)
15:10 PIONEER: A next generation rare pion decay experiment relying on 5D tracking - Patrick Schwendimann   (70A-3377)
15:35 --- Break ---
16:00
Hands-on session (until 17:30) (70A-3377)
19:00 --- Workshop Dinner ---
12:00
Lunch (until 13:30) (B23 (Guest House 2nd floor))
13:30
Tutorial (until 15:30) (70A-3377)
13:30 Tutorial: Installing, using and contributing to ACTS - Paul Gessinger (CERN)  
15:30 --- Break ---
16:00
Hands-on session (until 18:00) (70A-3377)
12:00
Lunch (until 13:30)
13:30
Tutorial - Paul Gessinger (CERN) (until 15:00)
13:30 Detector geometry and ODD - Paul Gessinger (CERN)  
15:00 --- Break ---
15:30
Topical discussion (until 16:40)
15:30 Low-momentum tracking efficiency - Barak Schmookler  
16:00 Track projection to non-tracking detector, and resolution evaluation - Wouter Deconinck Matt Posik (Temple University)  
16:40
Hands-on session (until 18:00)
12:00
Lunch (until 13:30)
13:30
GPU Tracking - Beomki Yeo (University of California Berkeley (US)) (until 14:45)
13:30 Introduction to traccc - Beomki Yeo (University of California Berkeley (US))  
13:55 detray - Joana Niermann (CERN)  
14:20 Geometry alignment - Vakho Tsulaia (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
14:45 --- Break ---
15:15
GPU Tracking - Beomki Yeo (University of California Berkeley (US)) (until 16:30)
15:15 [Discussion] GNN + traccc pipeline - Xiangyang Ju (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
15:40 [Discussion] Application to Celeritas (Simulation tool) - Julien Esseiva (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
16:05 Q&A  
16:30
Introduction (until 17:00)