TIPP 2026

Session

Parallel Session-V

2 Feb 2026, 14:00

TIFR, Mumbai

Conveners

Parallel Session-V: at D406

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

Parallel Session-V: at D406

• Mandar Saraf (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (IN))

Parallel Session-V: at D406

• Priscilla Cushman

Parallel Session-V: at D406

• Arka Santra

19. Electronics of the Fast Forward Detector in MPD experiment

ROGOV, Victor

02/02/2026, 14:00

Trigger and DAQ hardware

Oral

Fast Forward Detector (FFD) is a two-arm Cherenkov modular detector registering high
energy charged particles and photons. The FFD plays an essential role in the MPD/NICA
experiment providing fast interaction trigger signal with determination of interaction point
position. Its other important task is generating a start pulse for TOF detector. The FFD trigger
pulses are formed as a...

28. Design and development of a 32 Channel Waveform Digitiser Board based on DRS4 for the Cosmic Muon Veto Detector

SARAF, Mandar (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (IN))

02/02/2026, 14:15

Trigger and DAQ hardware

Oral

An RPC detector stack of 12 layers is operational at TIFR, Mumbai. A cosmic muon veto detector (CMVD) is under development around the RPC detector. This is part of a study to assess the feasibility of constructing a shallow-depth neutrino detector. The CMVD employs extruded plastic scintillator (EPS) strips as the active medium. Muon interactions within the EPS are registered by silicon...

30. Development and Characterisation of a Plastic Scintillator-based Compact Test and Trigger System with SiPM Readout and Custom Electronics

Mr CHATTOPADHYAY, Prajjalak (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (IN))

02/02/2026, 14:30

Trigger and DAQ hardware

Oral

We present the design, construction, and characterization of a compact, fully indigenous plastic scintillator-based test and trigger system employing silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) and custom-developed electronics. The system uses Extruded Plastic Scintillator (EPS) paddles integrated with wavelength-shifting (WLS) fibers, with SiPMs coupled to both ends for photon detection. The choice of...

31. The MDT Trigger Processor prototype for the ATLAS Level-0 Muon Trigger at HL-LHC

GKOUNTOUMIS, Panagiotis (University of California Irvine (US))

02/02/2026, 14:45

Trigger and DAQ hardware

Oral

The Monitored Drift Tube Trigger Processor (MDT-TP) is a major advancement in
the upgrade of the first-level muon trigger of the ATLAS Experiment during the
operation of the High-Luminosity LHC.

The MDT-TP interfaces the MDT front-end electronics with the ATLAS Trigger and
Data acquisition systems and helps to improve the muon trigger momentum
measurement reducing in parallel the fake...

34. RAM-based Coincidence Window Optimization for Real-Time Muon Reconstruction in HL-LHC ATLAS L0 Muon Trigger

NAKAGAWA, Tetsuro (Kyoto University (JP))

02/02/2026, 15:00

Trigger and DAQ hardware

Oral

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN provides the world's highest
center-of-mass energy proton–proton collisions. The ATLAS detector, located at
one of the collision points, aims to discover phenomena beyond the Standard
Model by observing particles produced in these collisions. From 2030, the
High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) will begin operation, increasing the instantaneous
luminosity by...

44. FPGA-based Emulator Platform Targeting ATLAS Phase-2 ITk DAQ System Development

DRESCHER, Matthias Peter (Georg August Universitaet Goettingen (DE))

02/02/2026, 15:15

Trigger and DAQ hardware

Oral

The current ATLAS Inner Detector will be upgraded to an all-silicon Inner Tracker (ITk) for the Phase 2 upgrade of the experiment.
The innermost part of the ITk will consist of about 10k pixel modules, totaling more than 5 gigapixels that should be controlled and read out by the upgraded DAQ system.
The basic read-out chain includes a PC sever hosting a dedicated PCIe FPGA-based board...

47. Upgrade of the Front-End Electronics of the RPC Detector Stack at TIFR

SHINDE, Ravindra Raghunath (TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH)

02/02/2026, 16:30

Trigger and DAQ hardware

Oral

A Cosmic Muon Veto detector (CMVD) is being built at TIFR for the feasibility study of shallow depth Neutrino experiments. In this experiment, a Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) stack is the primary muon detector and its performance is vital for the success of the CMVD results.
Since 2008, a 12 layered 1 m x 1 m Cosmic Muon tracker, based on Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) has been operational at...

54. Data Acquisition System of the TPC/MPD Detector for the NICA Project

Mr VERESHCHAGIN, Stepan (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU))

02/02/2026, 16:45

Trigger and DAQ hardware

Oral

The NICA (Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility) project at JINR (Dubna, Russia) aims to investigate hot and dense strongly interacting matter in heavy-ion collisions at center-of-mass energies up to 11 GeV per nucleon pair. One of the flagship experiments of the project is the Multi-Purpose Detector (MPD), which employs a large Time Projection Chamber (TPC) as its main...

126. An FPGA based readout system for sub-nanosecond beam background characterization

EISELE, Florian

02/02/2026, 17:00

Trigger and DAQ hardware

Oral

Many facilities employ beam loss monitors that report time-averaged loss rates and do not support precise time-of-arrival measurements. We developed an FPGA-based readout system that, in combination with plastic scintillator detectors, enables beam loss measurements with sub-nanosecond time resolution over multi-second acquisitions. We commissioned this system at the (50 - 500 MeV) booster...

131. Development and Testing of an External and Self-Triggering System for HGCAL Beam and Cassette Tests

SHUKLA, Raghunandan (Imperial College (GB))

02/02/2026, 17:15

Trigger and DAQ hardware

Oral

The CMS endcap calorimeter upgrade for the high-luminosity LHC, the High Granularity Calorimeter (HGCAL), is starting a major test programme for large pieces of the detector, which includes beam and cosmic testing. The asynchronous nature of cosmic and beam triggers relative to the detector’s reference clock poses challenges in capturing signal peaks accurately with consequences for system...

150. Scintillator Counters and PMT Read-out Electronics for the HEPD-02 Calorimeter on the CSES-02 Satellite: Design and Performance

MESE, Marco (University of Naples Federico II)

02/02/2026, 17:30

Trigger and DAQ hardware

Oral

The CSES/Limadou mission arises from the collaboration between the China National Space Administration (CNSA) and the Italian Space Agency (ASI). It is the first to implement a satellite constellation aimed at monitoring ionospheric parameters, potentially correlated with seismic activity.

This contribution focuses on the scintillator counters and the photomultiplier tube (PMT) read-out and...

152. From Polling to Proactive Push: An Event-Driven Architecture for Real-Time Data Acquisition

Mr DESHMUKH, Prajwal (Sardar Patel Institute of Technology), KADAM, Rohan (Sardar Patel Institute of Technology), Mr KHADPE, Saiesh (Sardar Patel Institute of Technology)

02/02/2026, 17:45

Trigger and DAQ hardware

Oral

The Data Acquisition systems are an integral part of the readout electronics of high energy physics experiments. Conventional data acquisition (DAQ) systems that rely on server polling of distributed clients suffer from high latency, wasted bandwidth, and inefficient resource usage. Polling results in delays that relate to the frequency of the queries and does not scale well as the number of...

4. Development and performance of the dRICH SiPM-based photodetector for the ePIC experiment at the EIC

PREGHENELLA, Roberto (INFN, Bologna (IT))

05/02/2026, 14:00

Photon detection

Oral

The dual-radiator RICH (dRICH) detector of the ePIC experiment at the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) will employ Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) for single-photon Cherenkov light detection. Covering an area of ~ 3 m2 with 3$\times$3 mm$^{2}$ pixels and more than 300,000 readout channels, this will be the first collider experiment to utilize SiPMs at such a scale for single-photon applications in...

41. DarkSide-20k SiPM Photodetectors – Production and Characterisation

BHOWMICK, Pritindra (University of Oxford/Princeton University)

05/02/2026, 14:15

Photon detection

Oral

DarkSide-20k is a direct-detection dark matter experiment targeting candidates from the keV to Planck scale. It employs a 51-tonne dual-phase liquid argon time projection chamber (TPC) and surrounding veto, detecting argon scintillation with large-area cryogenic silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) arrays optimised for high photon detection efficiency and low noise at liquid argon...

99. LiquidO: A New Paradigm of Particle Imaging & Detection in Opaqueness

Dr CABRERA, Anatael (IJCLab (Orsay) - CNRS / Université Paris-Saclay)

05/02/2026, 14:30

Photon detection

Oral

Breaking with the paradigm of detection’s transparency, the LiquidO collaboration introduces a novel approach to particle detection. Invented in 2012 and released at CERN in 2019, LiquidO uses an opaque medium with a short scattering length to stochastically confine light near (within centimetres) where energy is deposited. Light, arising from Cherenkov radiation and, optionally,...

103. The SABRE South Experiment at the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory

SHARRY

05/02/2026, 14:45

Photon detection

Oral

SABRE is an international collaboration that will operate similar particle detectors in the Northern (SABRE North) and Southern Hemispheres (SABRE South). This innovative approach aims to distinguish potential dark matter signals from seasonal backgrounds: a pioneering strategy only feasible with a Southern Hemisphere experiment. SABRE South is located at the Stawell Underground Physics...

110. mPMT electronics and DAQ system in WCTE operation

NUREK, Michal Jan (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))

05/02/2026, 15:00

Photon detection

Oral

Water Cherenkov Test Experiment (WCTE) was a CERN experiment that had been operating from October 2024 to June 2025. It aimed to test out the new photodetection system based on the use of a new photosensor module called Multi-Photomultiplier (mPMT), which will be utilized in the new neutrino long-baseline Hyper-Kamiokande experiment currently under construction in Japan. An mPMT will be a base...

143. Study of the radiation aging of SiPMs with using of beam of the fast neutrons at BINP SB RAS

BOBROVNIKOV, Viktor (Budker Insititute of Nuclear Physics (RU))

05/02/2026, 15:15

Photon detection

Oral

To study the effect of induced by neutron irradiation aging various materials in the BINP SB RAS special stand was developed and created. It uses the infrastructure of the facility to study the Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) method. The BNCT facility has option to produce fast neutrons with an energy up to 15 MeV by using deuteron beam. The used to irradiation neutrons are produced in...

153. The upgrade of the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter for the High Luminosity LHC

RUSACK, Roger (University of Minnesota (US))

05/02/2026, 15:30

Photon detection

Oral

The High Luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN aims to achieve, starting in 2030, unprecedented levels of instantaneous and integrated luminosities, approximately 5 x 10^34 cm-2 s-1 and 3000/fb, respectively. 140 to 200 collisions per bunch crossing are anticipated, which will represent a severe challenge for the detectors. The endcap part of the Compact Muon Solenoid...

163. The first results on square position-sensitive MCP PMT produced in Russia

RUSETSKY, Vadim (JSC "Ekran FEP", Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics)

05/02/2026, 16:30

Photon detection

Oral

Square multianode MCP PMTs with working area 27.5x27.5 mm were produced in Russia for the first time in 2025. The design of MCP PMT is described. The first measaured parameters are presented. Several potential applications of these devices in HEP experiments are given. The plans for further R&D including development of PMT with larger working area are discussed.

164. Calibration, timing and energy performance studies of LYSO crystals using ~KeV energy photons

KARMAKAR, Anindita (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

05/02/2026, 16:45

Photon detection

Oral

Cerium-doped Lutetium–Yttrium Oxyorthosilicate (LYSO:Ce) was originally developed for medical imaging but has recently attracted considerable interest in nuclear and high-energy physics due to its high light yield, fast decay time, and excellent timing capabilities. In this work, we investigate the calibration, energy resolution, and timing performance of SiPM-coupled LYSO:Ce...

176. Development of PMT/WLS optical modules for Cherenkov detectors

EROFEEV, Gleb (INR RAS)

05/02/2026, 17:00

Photon detection

Oral

Cherenkov detectors are pivotal for particle identification and velocity measurement in high-energy physics, astrophysics, and neutrino experiments. Their performance is critically dependent on the efficiency of the optical modules used to detect Cherenkov photons. Modern Cherenkov detectors have an incredible active volume like 258 kton of water in Hyper-Kamiokande. The veto system of...

196. HRPPD photodetectors - ageing studies and detector response as a function of rate

AGARWALA, Jinky (Universita e INFN Trieste (IT))

05/02/2026, 17:15

Photon detection

Oral

High Rate Picosecond Photon Detectors (HRPPDs) are large area photosensors, based on Micro-Channel Plate (MCP) technology, that result from a long-lasting collaboration between academy and industry. These photon detectors have excellent time resolution down to 20 ps for single photon detection. They have high Quantum Efficiency ($>$30%) and low Dark Count Rates (few kHz/cm$^2$). HRPPDs are a...

210. Development of An In-Situ Magnetron Sputtering Plasma Monitoring Setup

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

05/02/2026, 17:30

Photon detection

Oral

Magnetron sputtering is one of the most widely employed techniques for depositing metallic and insulating thin films on a variety of substrates. Its versatility lies in the precise control it offers over film thickness and morphology, which can be tuned by deepening our understanding of key aspects of the sputtering process: ionization of the working gas, plasma dynamics, sputtering of the...