TIPP 2026

Session

Parallel Session-IV

2 Feb 2026, 14:00

TIFR, Mumbai

Conveners

Parallel Session-IV: at AG80

• Shilpi Jain (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (IN))

Parallel Session-IV: at AG80

• Deepak Samuel (Central University of Karnataka)

Parallel Session-IV: at D406

• Mandar Saraf (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

Parallel Session-IV: at AG80

• Mandakini Ravindra Patil (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR))

Parallel Session-IV

• There are no conveners in this block

11. Drift tube detectors in RNC "Kurchatov institute" - IHEP for accelerator-based particles physics, monitoring the fluxes of cosmic ray particles, cosmic ray muon tomography

Dr FAKHRUTDINOV, RinatMakarim (NRC "Kurchatov institute" - IHEP)

02/02/2026, 14:00

Gaseous detectors

Oral

RNC "Kurchatov institute" – IHEP actively took part in the creation of the MDT (monitored drift tube) chambers for the ATLAS muon spectrometer at the LHC. Drift tubes of these chambers are housed inside round aluminium tubes with 30 or 15 mm diameter and wall thickness 0.4 mm. Many years of successful operation of the ATLAS detector proves that developed design and production technology of...

26. Proportional counter development with vacuum manifolds recycling legacy iron tubes for the GRAPES-3 expansion

Dr NAYAK, Pranaba K (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

02/02/2026, 14:15

Gaseous detectors

Oral

The GRAPES-3 experiment, located at 2200 m above sea level in Ooty, India, operates the world’s largest tracking muon telescope, designed to study the influence of cosmic rays on Earth and their interactions with the near-Earth environment [1]. In a major recent upgrade, the effective area of the telescope was doubled by refurbishing nearly the same number of proportional counters as in the...

79. Development of Time Projection Chamber for low energy Nuclear Physics experiments

Mr DAS, Pralay Kumar (Saha Institute Of Nuclear Physics), MAJUMDAR, Nayana (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)

02/02/2026, 14:30

Gaseous detectors

Oral

Active Target Time Projection Chamber (AT-TPC) can be a powerful detection system in low-energy nuclear physics experiments, offering its active medium as the target. along with three-dimensional tracking of candidate-nuclei. Thus, the working principle of an AT-TPC may be advantageous in studying nuclear reaction kinematics with better precision [1]. One important application is the...

85. Preliminary Design of ePIC’s G-RWELL Endcap Tracker and Development of its First Engineering Test Article

GRAMIGNA, Stefano (INFN Roma Tor Vergata)

02/02/2026, 14:45

Gaseous detectors

Oral

The Electron Ion Collider (EIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and ePIC, its first experiment, aim to advance the nuclear physics frontier starting from 2035.
Studying the collisions between the EIC’s polarized beams will allow to probe the internal structure nucleons and nuclei with unprecedented precision, to shed light on the origin of spin in the nucleons, and to investigate the...

14. Performance Studies of Gaseous Detectors for Heavy-Ion Experiments

Mr MANDAL, S. (Bose Institute)

02/02/2026, 15:00

Gaseous detectors

Oral

Gaseous detectors are widely used in High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments for their moderate to high rate handling capability, good position and time resolution, and cost-effectiveness. At Bose Institute, Kolkata, performance studies are carried out on several gas filled detectors such as Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM), Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) and Straw Tube detector, under controlled...

27. Muon momentum spectrum near equator and tuning of hadronic models

Dr S, PETHURAJ (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)

02/02/2026, 15:15

Gaseous detectors

The measurement of the cosmic ray spectrum has been carried out for several decades to improve our understanding of its composition, energy spectrum, and angular dependence. These observations are strongly influenced by the geographical location of the detector due to variations in the geomagnetic field and atmospheric conditions. Among the secondary cosmic ray particles, muons play a crucial...

112. Technical challenges and performance of the new ATLAS LAr Calorimeter Trigger

POZZI, Ruben (CERN)

02/02/2026, 15:30

Liquid Noble-Element Detectors

Oral

The Liquid Argon Calorimeters are employed by ATLAS for all electromagnetic calorimetry in the pseudo-rapidity region |η| < 3.2, and for hadronic and forward calorimetry in the region from |η| = 1.5 to |η| = 4.9. They also provide inputs to the first level of the ATLAS trigger. In 2022 the LHC started its Run 3 period with an increase in luminosity and and resulting in a pile-up of up to 65...

108. Commissioning and Testing of Station-1 and Station-2 MuCh-GEM Modules with High-Intensity Beams at the mini-CBM Experiment at GSI

Mr GHOSH, Chandrasekhar (1. Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata - 700064, INDIA, 2. Homi Bhabha National Institute, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai 400094)

02/02/2026, 16:30

Gaseous detectors

Oral

The Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment is a fixed-target experiment designed to explore the properties of nuclear matter under extreme densities. It will be hosted at the upcoming Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR), Darmstadt, Germany. The CBM Muon Chamber (MuCh) detector system will comprise four stations of gaseous detectors interleaved with absorber layers. Each...

121. Investigation of India-made Thick-GEM for Application in Muon Scattering Tomography

GHOSH, saikat

02/02/2026, 16:45

Gaseous detectors

Oral

Muon scattering tomography is a non-destructive evaluation technique used to probe the structure and composition of static objects, with wide-ranging applications in civil, industrial, and nuclear engineering, as well as in homeland security. The method relies on measuring the scattering of cosmic muons by reconstructing the tracks from the hit information collected from tracking detector...

133. ATLAS Muon Detectors Upgrades for High Luminosity LHC

WANOTAYAROJ, Chaowaroj (KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))

02/02/2026, 17:00

Gaseous detectors

Oral

The muon spectrometer of the ATLAS detector will undergo a substantial upgrade during the Phase-II upgrade to meet the operational demands of the High- Luminosity LHC. Most of the electronics for the Monitored Drift Tube (MDT) chambers, Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC), and Thin Gap Chambers (TGC) will be replaced to ensure compatibility with the higher trigger rates and extended latencies...

271. Control System and Data Quality Monitoring of the Belle II KLM Detector

Dr BABU, Varghese (University of Louisville and KEK accelerator facility)

02/02/2026, 17:15

Gaseous detectors

Oral* (Presenter's registration yet to be completed)

The K-Long and Muon (KLM) detector is the largest subsystem of the
Belle II experiment, dedicated to muon and neutral hadron detection.
This paper presents the development and implementation of the KLM
Control System, a critical infrastructure engineered to ensure
detector safety, operational stability, and high-quality data
acquisition. The architecture is structured into three...

118. The µ-RWELL technology in the IDEA Muon System for FCC-ee

FARINELLI, Riccardo (INFN Bologna (IT))

02/02/2026, 17:30

Gaseous detectors

Oral

The Future Circular Collider for electron–positron collisions (FCC-ee) requires a high-performance detector, for which the Innovative Detector for Electron-positron Accelerator (IDEA) has been proposed. The micro-Resistive WELL (µ-RWELL) technology is under development for the muon system, offering compact design, cost-effectiveness, and scalability to large surfaces (>1500 m²).

The R&D...

174. Analysis of radiation effects in trigger front-end electronics with impedance spectroscopy

Dr CASOLARO, Pierluigi (University Federico II and INFN, Naples (IT))

03/02/2026, 14:00

Trigger and DAQ hardware

Oral

Ensuring the long-term reliability of electronic components in harsh radiation environment requires a detailed understanding of radiation-induced effects. In the framework of the ATLAS muon trigger upgrade for the High Luminosity–Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) [1], we investigated Total Ionizing Dose (TID) effects on Si pn and pin junctions, MOS-based voltage translators and BiCMOS-based...

211. Development and validation of trigger primitive generation algorithms of High Granularity Calorimeter of CMS

DAS, Indranil (Imperial College London (GB))

03/02/2026, 14:15

Trigger and DAQ hardware

Oral

The High Granularity Calorimeter (HGCAL) is a sampling calorimeter that will replace the electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters in the forward section of CMS during the high-luminosity phase of the LHC. It is designed to investigate physics processes, particularly those associated with vector boson fusion and Lorentz-boosted topologies. Approximately 6 million silicon sensors will be...

83. A FPGA-based L1 trigger system design for STCF

HUANG, Yuhe

03/02/2026, 14:30

Trigger and DAQ hardware

Oral* (Presenter's registration yet to be completed)

The Super Tau-Charm Facility (STCF) is a new-generation of electron-positron collider operating in a center mass of energy range from 2 to 7 GeV with a peak luminosity of 0.5×1035 cm-2 s-1 at 4 GeV. The high physics event rate in the presence of high beam background poses a big challenge to the STCF trigger system. In light of the data features and the simulated beam background level in STCF,...

6. Triggering on Muon Detector Showers with CMS

FERNANDEZ MANTECA, Pedro (CERN)

03/02/2026, 14:45

Trigger and DAQ hardware

Oral

Searches for long-lived particles (LLPs) have attracted much interest lately due to their high discovery potential in the LHC Run-3. Signatures featuring LLPs with long lifetimes and decaying inside the muon detectors of the CMS experiment at CERN are of particular interest. In this talk, we will describe a novel Level-1 trigger algorithm that significantly improves CMS's signal efficiency for...

273. Development of an SiPM-based camera for a 4 m class Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope

DUHAN, Sandeep (TIFR, Mumbai)

03/02/2026, 15:00

Photon detection

Oral

The Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique (IACT) is the standard method for ground-based
detection of very-high-energy gamma rays from astrophysical sources. IACT telescopes record very
short duration flashes of Cherenkov light produced in extensive air showers initiated by gamma and
cosmic rays entering the Earth’s atmosphere. Traditionally, photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) have been
the...

274. Commissioning and Calibration of SiPM-based 4m cherenkov telescope

Dr SINGH, Bharat (TIFR, Mumbai)

03/02/2026, 15:15

Photon detection

Oral

A 256-pixel Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) camera developed for a 4-m diameter atmospheric Cherenkov telescope was commissioned in October 2024. The telescope is located at Mt. Abu, Rajasthan, India, and is part of the TACTIC array established by BARC. A dedicated nanosecond light-flasher system was implemented to enable precise and periodic calibration of the camera photosensors and the...

209. Construction and Testing of Resistive Plate Chambers with Optical Readout

BILKI, Burak (Beykent University (TR), The University of Iowa (US))

03/02/2026, 15:30

Gaseous detectors

Oral

Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) are among the core technologies in modern collider experiments. In their traditional form, RPCs operate on the principle of charge induction: ionization within the gas gap induces signals on an external anode plane segmented into pads or strips. Recent advances—particularly the development of one-glass and hybrid RPCs—have enabled significant modifications to...

206. Ultrasonic welding technology for future Straw Trackers

ENIK, Temur (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU))

05/02/2026, 14:00

Gaseous detectors

Oral

Straw Trackers are widely used in various High Energy Physics experiments. There are two main straw production technologies – the straw winding and the ultrasonic welding. While the winding technology exists for a long time and there are industrially available producers, the ultrasonic welding process has reached the required quality relatively recently.
A large scale Straw Tracker build of...

18. Development of scintillation beam counters and compact neutron detectors with picosecond time resolution for BM@N experiment

ROGOV, Victor

05/02/2026, 14:15

Fast and precise timing devices

Oral

A system of counters with fast organic scintillators, registering high energy nuclei of the
Nuclotron beam, and a set of neutron detectors based on stilbene, used for TOF
measurements of neutron spectra, were developed for the BM@N experiment. The detectors
are operating in a strong magnetic field of the BM@N magnet. Scintillation photons are
registered with fine-mesh and MCP PMTs in the...

80. The ATLAS High-Granularity Timing Detector for the HL-LHC: project status and results

CADAMURO, Luca (IJCLab - CNRS/IN2P3 - Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

05/02/2026, 14:30

Fast and precise timing devices

Oral

The HL-LHC will provide instantaneous luminosities up to $7.5 \times 10^{34}~$cm$^{−2}$s$^{-1}$, and this increased interaction rate and particle flux will degrade the ATLAS event reconstruction. The endcap and forward region where the liquid Argon calorimeter has coarser granularity and the inner tracker has worse resolution will be particularly affected. A High-Granularity Timing Detector...

124. LIGHT01: A prototype LGAD pixel readout ASIC with ps timing resolution in 28 nm technology

GHIMOUZ, Abderrahmane (Paul Scherrer Institute (CH))

05/02/2026, 14:45

Fast and precise timing devices

Oral

We present LIGHT01 (LGAD-based Integrated Granular Hybrid Timing ASIC), the first prototype in a new family of dedicated readout chips for Low Gain Avalanche Detector (LGAD) pixels. LIGHT01 implements an $8 \times 8$ pixel matrix with fully independent channels, each comprising a preamplifier optimized for LGAD capacitances, a fast discriminator, and a time-to-digital converter (TDC),...

171. PICOSEC Micromegas gaseous detectors for precise timing and developments towards applicable detector

LISOWSKA, Marta (CERN)

05/02/2026, 15:00

Fast and precise timing devices

Oral

The PICOSEC Micromegas detector is a precise-timing gaseous detector based on a Cherenkov radiator, a semi-transparent photocathode and a Micromegas amplification structure, targeting a time resolution of tens of picoseconds for minimum ionising particles (MIPs). Single-pad metallic prototypes with Cesium Iodide (CsI) photocathodes have demonstrated excellent performance, reaching a time...

139. Characterisation of the First Silicon Electron Multiplier Demonstrators

DE BENEDETTI, Federico (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))

05/02/2026, 15:15

Fast and precise timing devices

Oral

The Silicon Electron Multiplier (SiEM) is a novel sensor concept for minimum ionizing particle detection, expected to provide excellent timing and spatial resolution through a sub-$10\,\mu m$ pixel pitch and internal gain designed to be radiation-hard. Unlike conventional devices, where the gain layer is formed by ion implantation and tends to degrade under radiation due to acceptor removal,...

158. HGCROC3: Radiation-Hard Front-End ASIC for the CMS HGCAL

Mr THIENPONT, Damien (OMEGA - Ecole Polytechnique - CNRS/IN2P3)

05/02/2026, 15:30

Fast and precise timing devices

Oral

The High Granularity Calorimeter (HGCAL), currently under production by the CMS collaboration for the HL-LHC upgrade, will replace the existing endcap calorimeters with a design offering unprecedented transverse and longitudinal segmentation for both readout and triggering.
Its electromagnetic section and part of the hadronic section are based on hexagonal silicon sensors, while the remaining...

161. Timing results of a 3D silicon sensor readout by Timepix4

CHATZIANAGNOSTOU, Evridki (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

05/02/2026, 15:45

Fast and precise timing devices

Oral

Achieving excellent time resolution in small pixel cells is a key challenge for the next generation of silicon detectors. In the high-density collision environment of the HL-LHC, detectors will need to cope with extreme pile-up. To disentangle different collisions and restore the efficiency of track reconstruction algorithms, silicon pixel detectors must provide per-hit time measurements with...