ALICE Forward Calorimeter Workshop in Tsukuba 2025

from Tuesday, 17 June 2025 (09:00) to Monday, 23 June 2025 (18:00)
Tsukuba

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
17 Jun 2025
18 Jun 2025
19 Jun 2025
20 Jun 2025
21 Jun 2025
22 Jun 2025
23 Jun 2025
AM
09:00
Registration (until 10:00)
09:00 Registration  
10:00
Welcome, Project overview (until 11:40)
10:00 Welcome and workshop goals - Tatsuya Chujo (University of Tsukuba (JP))  
10:20 Status report from technical coordination - Nicola Minafra (The University of Kansas (US))  
11:20 Coordination for parallel working sessions in the afternoon - Tatsuya Chujo (University of Tsukuba (JP))  
11:40 --- Lunch ---
09:00
FoCal-E PAD (until 10:30)
09:00 FoCal-E pad mass production - Prof. Motoi Inaba (University of Tsukuba (JP))  
09:40 Tungsten plate machining - Takashi Hachiya (Nara Women's University (JP))  
10:00 Discussion  
10:30 --- Break ---
10:50
FoCal-E PIXEL (until 11:40)
10:50 Status of FoCal-E PIXEL - Tivadar Kiss (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU)) Dieter Roehrich (University of Bergen (NO))  
11:20 Discussion  
11:40
FoCal-E PAD (India) (until 12:10)
11:40 Report from NISER (remote) - Ganesh Jagannath Tambave (National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) (IN))  
09:00
FoCal-H (until 10:20)
09:00 FoCal-H status - Ian Gardner Bearden (Niels Bohr Institute) Prof. Ian Gardner Bearden (University of Copenhagen (DK))  
09:30 FoCal-H readout electronics and H2GCROC - Shihai Jia (University of Copenhagen (DK))  
10:00 Discussion  
10:20 --- Break ---
10:40
FoCal-E pad readout and trigger (until 12:00)
10:40 Concentrator board for FoCal-E pad, LpGBT, CRU - Tivadar Kiss (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))  
11:10 Design of trigger system - Hiroki Osanai (Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science)  
11:30 HGCROC trigger stream analysis - Sho Miyamoto (Nagasaki University of Science and Technology) Sho Miyamoto (Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science (JP)) Sho Miyamoto (Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science (JP)) Sho Miyamoto  
11:45 HGCROC2(3) chip station - Takahiro Fusayasu (Saga University (JP))  
09:00
Tungsten plates (until 10:00)
10:00
FoCal-E pad PCB (until 11:00)
11:00 --- Break ---
11:20
Test beam in 2025-2026 (IRRAD, PS/SPS, KEK, RARiS) (until 12:20)
10:00
Free discussion (until 12:00)
09:00
Workshop summary (until 12:00)
PM
13:10
Mechanics and cooling (until 14:10)
13:10 Status of FoCal mechanics - Ton Van Den Brink (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
13:40 Status of FoCal cooling system - Jacek Michal Swierblewski (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL)) Tomasz Cieślik  
14:10 --- Break ---
14:30
Working session 1-1: Mechanics and cooling (until 16:30)
14:30 Building the segment module of FoCal-E  
14:30
Working session 2-1: Readout and trigger (until 16:30)
14:30 Current status of HGCROC3 - Hikaru Kano (University of Tsukuba (JP))  
14:50 Work on HGCROC at the lab (1F202)  
16:30
Summary of Day-1 (until 17:00)
12:10 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Working session 1-2: Mechanics and cooling (until 15:00)
13:30
Working session 2-2: Readout and trigger (until 15:00)
15:00
FoCal electronics and integration (until 16:00)
15:00 FoCal electronics and integration - Marco Bregant (Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP) (BR))  
15:30 Mechanical integration (remote) - Maciej Czarnynoga (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))  
16:00
HGCROC (until 16:30)
16:00 HGCCAL mass production and HGCROC3 at NTU - Mr You-Ying Li You-Ying Li (National Taiwan University (TW)) Rong-Shyang Lu (National Taiwan University (TW))  
16:30 --- Break ---
16:50
Summary of Day-2 (until 17:10)
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Possible contributions from China (until 14:45)
13:30 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (remote) - Guannan Xie (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)  
13:40 Shandong University (remote) - Qinghua Xu (Shandong University)  
13:50 Institute of Modern Physics, CASs (remote) - Yuxiang Zhao (Universita e INFN Trieste (IT)) yuxiang zhao  
14:00 University of Science and Technology of China (remote) - Xiaozhi Bai (University of Science and Technology of China (USTC))  
14:10 Chinese contribution and status on FoCal (CCNU) (remote) - Zhong-Bao Yin (Central China Normal University CCNU (CN))  
14:35 Discussion  
14:45
Physics performance (until 15:25)
14:45 FoCal physics performance (remote) - Ionut Arsene Arsene (University of Oslo) Ionut Cristian Arsene (University of Oslo (NO))  
15:15 Discussion  
15:25 --- Break ---
15:45
Working session 1-3: Mechanics and cooling (until 17:45)
15:45
Working session 2-3: Readout and trigger (until 17:45)
17:45
Summary of Day-3 (until 18:15)
19:30 --- Workshop Dinner ---
12:20 --- Lunch ---
13:30
FoCal-E pad mass production procedure (until 15:30)
13:30 Report from VECC, India (PCB and irradiation test) (remote) - Sanjib Muhuri (Department of Atomic Energy (IN))  
15:30
Working session 1-4: Mechanics and cooling (until 17:00)
15:30
Working session 2-4: Readout and trigger (until 17:00)
17:00
Summary of Day-4 (until 17:20)
13:00
Summary of FoCal-E pad mass production, and action items (until 15:00)
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Free discussion (until 17:30)