TileCal Week (Outside) iThemba LABS Cape Town

29 Sept 2025, 09:00 → 3 Oct 2025, 21:30 Europe/Zurich

Mukesh Kumar (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)), Edward Khomotso Nkadimeng (iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation (ZA)), Ryan Peter Mckenzie (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)), Bruce Mellado Garcia (University of the Witwatersrand), Henric Wilkens (CERN), Mpho Gift Doctor Gololo (University of Johannesburg (ZA)), Phumlani Zipho Ngcobo (University of Zululand (ZA))

The ATLAS Tile Calorimeter community will gather at iThemba LABS in South Africa from September 29 to October 3, 2025, for the third TileCal Week of the year, and the fourth one held outside CERN, following the meetings in Rio de Janeiro in 2008, Tbilisi in 2018 and Pisa in 2023.

TileCal Week will be hosted by iThemba LABS, with support from the local organizing team and the broader South African high-energy physics community.

Monday 29 September

09:15 → 09:30 Welcome Address

Welcome address:

1. Prof. Makondelele Victor Tshivhase, ithemba LABS Managing Director (~5 mins)
2. Prof. Deena Naidoo, Head of School, School of Physics, WITS (~8 mins)

Speakers: Deena Naidoo (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)), Mukesh Kumar (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

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09:30 → 11:00 Future Tile Calorimeter

Conveners: Henric Wilkens (CERN), Rute Costa Batalha Pedro (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)

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11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 13:00 Testbeam analysis

Convener: Giulio Usai (University of Texas at Arlington (US))

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13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Phase-II Upgrade project

Conveners: Fernando Carrio Argos (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (CSIC-UV)), Giulio Usai (University of Texas at Arlington (US))

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15:30 → 15:45 Short break

15:45 → 17:30 Social Program: iThemba Tour

[information Sunset Safari]

Tuesday 30 September

09:00 → 10:30 Phase-II Upgrade project

Conveners: Fernando Carrio Argos (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (CSIC-UV)), Giulio Usai (University of Texas at Arlington (US))

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10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 13:00 Phase-II Upgrade project

Conveners: Fernando Carrio Argos (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (CSIC-UV)), Giulio Usai (University of Texas at Arlington (US))

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13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Phase-II Upgrade project

Conveners: Fernando Carrio Argos (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (CSIC-UV)), Giulio Usai (University of Texas at Arlington (US))

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16:00 → 16:20 Short break

16:20 → 17:40 Phase-II Upgrade project

Conveners: Fernando Carrio Argos (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (CSIC-UV)), Giulio Usai (University of Texas at Arlington (US))

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Wednesday 1 October

09:00 → 10:30 Software and Computing

Conveners: Sanya Solodkov (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)), Siarhei Harkusha (A.Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (AM)), Yuri Smirnov (Northern Illinois University (US))

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10:30 → 11:00 coffee break

11:00 → 13:00 Data Preparation and Performance: Calibrations

Conveners: Antonio Jesus Gomez Delegido (CERN), Archil Durglishvili (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (GE)), Helena Santos (LIP - Lisbon), Jana Faltova (Charles University (CZ))

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13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Hardware and Operations

Conveners: Bernardo Sotto-Maior Peralva (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (BR)), Danijela Bogavac (IFAE), Irakli Minashvili (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (GE)), Jalal Abdallah (University of Texas at Arlington (US)), Stanislav Nemecek (Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ)), Yoav Afik (University of Chicago (US))

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15:30 → 15:45 Short break

15:45 → 17:15 Hardware and Operations: incl. ITC replacement

Conveners: Andrew White (University of Texas at Arlington (US)), Danijela Bogavac (IFAE), Irakli Minashvili (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (GE)), Jalal Abdallah (University of Texas at Arlington (US)), Joey Huston (Michigan State University (US)), Stanislav Nemecek (Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ))

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Thursday 2 October

09:00 → 10:30 Data Preparation and Performance: Run-3 Performance

Conveners: Archil Durglishvili (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (GE)), Helena Santos (LIP - Lisbon)

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10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 13:00 Data Preparation and Performance: Run-3 Performance

Conveners: Archil Durglishvili (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (GE)), Helena Santos (LIP - Lisbon)

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13:00 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:30 Data Preparation and Performance: Run-3 Performance

Conveners: Archil Durglishvili (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (GE)), Helena Santos (LIP - Lisbon)

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15:30 → 15:45 Short break

15:45 → 18:30 Institute Board

Convener: Luca Fiorini (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))

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19:00 → 22:00 Social Program: Collaboration Dinner

[information Sunset Safari]

Friday 3 October

09:00 → 10:30 Data Preparation and Performance: HL-LHC Performance

Conveners: Archil Durglishvili (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (GE)), Helena Santos (LIP - Lisbon), Tomas Davidek (Charles University (CZ))

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10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 Data Preparation and Performance: HL-LHC Performance

Conveners: Archil Durglishvili (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (GE)), Helena Santos (LIP - Lisbon), Tomas Davidek (Charles University (CZ))

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12:00 → 13:00 Lunch Break

13:00 → 21:30 Social Program: Sunset Safari

[information Sunset Safari]