DRD Calo Collaboration Meeting in Ancona
Faculty of Engineering
Ancona
The fourth DRD Calo Collaboration Meeting will take place at the Faculty of Engineering of the Università Politecnica delle Marche between Tuesday 16th and Friday 19th of September 2025. It will witness the consolidated organisation and that the scientific programme will be in full swing including strategic efforts for the collaboration. This includes a review of the European AIDAinnova project as well as an outlook on and the impact of a potential successor of which the scientific proposal will be known by the time of the meeting. The meeting in Ancona will also be the first meeting after the symposium of the European Strategy in June in Venice.
If you wish to contribute please contact the session and topic conveners:
- Work Package 1: Lucia Masetti (masetti@uni-mainz.de), Adrian Irles (adrian.irles@ific.uv.es)
- Work Package 2: Nicolas Morange (nicolas.morange@ijclab.in2p3.fr)
- Work Package 3: Michaela Mlynarikova (michaela.mlynarikova@cern.ch) , Marco Lucchini (marco.toliman.lucchini@cern.ch)
- Work Package 4: Christophe de la Taille (taille@in2p3.fr)
- Testbeam and tools and software: Gabriella Gaudio (gabriella.gaudio@pv.infn.it), Brieuc François (brieuc.francois@cern.ch), Lorenzo Pezzotti (lorenzo.pezzotti@cern.ch)
The DRD meeting will start Tuesday 16th afternoon; the morning of the first day is available for talks addressed to groups and researchers who could be interested to the DRD-Calo activities.

Credit Pietro Laureati
All pictures available under https://drdcalo.web.cern.ch/picture-gallery-collaboration-meeting-ancona-sept-2025/
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Opening: DRD-Calo activities and open possibilities Room 155/10 (Faculty of Engineering)
Room 155/10
Faculty of Engineering
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Welcome by the InstitutionSpeakers: Prof. D’Orazio (Pro-Rector), Prof. Quagliarini (Director of DICEA Dep.), Prof. Stipa (Director of SIMAU Dep.), Prof. Di Nicola (Vice-Director of DIISM Dep.)
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The DRD on Calorimetry - Introduction and overviewSpeaker: Roman Poeschl (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
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- Crystal Clear Collaboration: A scientific community for frontier research on scintillating detectors and applicationsSpeaker: Etiennette Auffray Hillemanns (CERN)
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UnivPM activities in the context of detectors and calorimetrySpeaker: Luigi Montalto (Universita Politecnica delle Marche (IT))
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11:20
Coffee Break
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Opening: Quick Visit of the Laboratories SIMAU and DIISM Laboartories (Faculty of Engineering)
SIMAU and DIISM Laboartories
Faculty of Engineering
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13:00
Lunch Break
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WP1 Room 140/3 (Faculty of Engineering)
Room 140/3
Faculty of Engineering
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Update on preparation of KEK beam dump experiment (EBES)Speaker: Fumihito Ikeda
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The Progress of the R&D of High Density and High Light Yield Glass ScintillatorSpeaker: Sen Qian (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))
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The Status of the R&D of GS-HCAL for CEPCSpeaker: Hengne Li (South China Normal University (CN))
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KEK Beam Test of ScW-ECALSpeakers: Dr Wataru Otani (University of Tokyo (JP)), Yong Liu (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
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Coffee break
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Development of Integrated Cooling Solutions for the AHCALSpeaker: Andre Klotzbücher
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Compact cooling design for the SiW-ECALSpeaker: Francois Joubert (LLR)
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Simulation of digital calorimetry with MAPSSpeaker: Dumitru-Vlad Berlea (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
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PID study to improve on the energy reconstruction in T-SDHCALSpeakers: Mohamed Idir, William VAGINAY
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Opening Plenary Room 140/3 (Faculty of Engineering)
Room 140/3
Faculty of Engineering
Conveners: Luigi Montalto (Universita Politecnica delle Marche (IT)), Luigi Montalto, Roberto Ferrari, Roberto Ferrari (INFN Pavia (IT)), Roman Poeschl (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))-
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Welcome by Local OrganisersSpeakers: Luigi Montalto (Universita Politecnica delle Marche (IT)), Daniele Rinaldi (Universita Politecnica delle Marche (IT)), Luigi Montalto
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Report from Technical BoardSpeakers: Gabriella Gaudio (Dipartimento di Fisica Nucleare e Teorica), Gabriella Gaudio (INFN-Pavia)
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Report from Speakers BureauSpeaker: Dr Wataru Otani (University of Tokyo (JP))
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10:30
Coffee Break
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WP4 Plenary - Electronics and DAQ: Session I Room 140/3 (Faculty of Engineering)
Room 140/3
Faculty of Engineering
Convener: Dr Christophe De La Taille (OMEGA (FR))-
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programmable ASICs device for reading out SiPM matrices for future hadronic sampling calorimetersSpeaker: Martina Cucinotta (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))
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overview of CALOROC1A/1B/1CSpeaker: Dr Christophe De La Taille (OMEGA (FR))
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DAQ experience with HGCCAL testbeamSpeaker: Yong Liu (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
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EU Project OTELLO - The calorimeter workpackage Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Ancona
Polo Trifogli Montedago via Brecce Bianche, 12 60100 Ancona (AN)Speakers: Gabriella Gaudio (INFN-Pavia), Gabriella Gaudio (Dipartimento di Fisica Nucleare e Teorica), Katja Kruger (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)), Katja Kruger (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)), Lucia Masetti (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE)) -
12:35
Lunch Break
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Guest contributions Room 140/3 (Faculty of Engineering)
Room 140/3
Faculty of Engineering
Convener: Roman Poeschl (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))-
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Scintillating cubes calorimeters for Neutrino ExperimentsSpeaker: Davide Sgalaberna (ETH Zurich (CH))
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Introduction and overview to DRD 3Speaker: Gregor Kramberger (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))
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WP1 Plenary: Session I Room 140/3 (Faculty of Engineering)
Room 140/3
Faculty of Engineering
Conveners: Adrian Irles (IFIC CSIC/UV), Lucia Masetti (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE))-
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IntroductionSpeakers: Adrian Irles (IFIC CSIC/UV), Lucia Masetti (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE))
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HighCompactCalo beam test and prototypingSpeaker: Aleksander Zarnecki (University of Warsaw (PL))
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Interim report on the SiW-ECALSpeakers: Melike Akbiyik (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)), Vincent Boudry (Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, CNRS/IN2P3, École polytechnique), Yukun Shi (Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, CNRS/IN2P3, École polytechnique)
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16:00
Coffee Break
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WP1 Plenary: Session II Room 140/3 (Faculty of Engineering)
Room 140/3
Faculty of Engineering
Conveners: Adrian Irles (IFIC CSIC/UV), Lucia Masetti (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE))-
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Status of EPICAL-2 analysis and optimisation studies for future calorimeter sensorsSpeaker: Thomas Peitzmann (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))
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Scintillating Bars for the DUNE Near Detector Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Ancona
Polo Trifogli Montedago via Brecce Bianche, 12 60100 Ancona (AN)Speakers: Morgan Wascko (Imperial College (GB)), Morgan Wascko, Morgan Wascko (Blackett Lab.High Energy Phys.Group-Imperial College-Unknown) -
WP2 Plenary Room 140/3 (Faculty of Engineering)
Room 140/3
Faculty of Engineering
Convener: Nicolas Morange (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))-
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Status of WP2 simulations and performanceSpeaker: Jacopo Fanini (CERN & Université Paris-Saclay)
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Summary of the ALLEGRO Ecal WorkshopSpeaker: Brieuc Francois (CERN)
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10:30
Coffee Break
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WP3 Plenary: Session I Room 140/3 (Faculty of Engineering)
Room 140/3
Faculty of Engineering
Convener: Marco Toliman Lucchini (Università & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))-
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IntroductionSpeaker: Marco Toliman Lucchini (Università & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))
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Presentations from WP3 coordinator candidatesSpeaker: Hwi Dong Yoo (Yonsei University (KR))
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MAXICC - status updateSpeaker: Marco Toliman Lucchini (Università & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))
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SpaCal - status updateSpeaker: Marco Pizzichemi (Universita Milano-Bicocca (IT) and CERN)
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TileCal - status updateSpeakers: Ivo Polak (Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ)), Rute Pedro (Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (PT))
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12:40
Lunch Break
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WP3 Plenary: Session II Room 140/3 (Faculty of Engineering)
Room 140/3
Faculty of Engineering
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RADICAL - status updateSpeaker: James William Wetzel (University of Iowa (US))
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OREO - status updateSpeaker: Pierluigi Fedeli (Università degli Studi di Ferrara & Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
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An optic-photoelastic method for the measurement of the lattice misorientation in anisotropic crystalsSpeaker: Luigi Montalto (Universita Politecnica delle Marche (IT))
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Software Tutorial: WG1 SW Tutorial on GAUDI Room 140/D3 (Faculty of Engineering)
Room 140/D3
Faculty of Engineering
Conveners: Andrea De Vita (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT)), Andreas Loeschcke Centeno, Brieuc Francois (CERN), Lorenzo Pezzotti (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT)) -
WG2 Photodetectors Plenary Room 140/3 (Faculty of Engineering)
Room 140/3
Faculty of Engineering
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WG2 Collaborative Framework: Establishing Shared Goals and Communication ChannelsSpeaker: Maria Ruzzarin
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R&D progress on SiPMs with a high pixel density for the high-granularity crystal calorimetrySpeaker: Yong Liu (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
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Photodetector requirements for dual readout calorimetersSpeaker: Stefano Moneta
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16:00
Coffee Break
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Collaboration Board Meeting Room 140/3 (Faculty of Engineering)
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Faculty of Engineering
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Collaboration Dinner Restaurant (Il Giardino)
Restaurant
Il Giardino
Via Fabio Filzi, 2 / c, 60123 Ancona AN
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WG1 Plenary: Session II: Session I Room 140/3 (Faculty of Engineering)
Room 140/3
Faculty of Engineering
Conveners: Brieuc Francois (CERN), Lorenzo Pezzotti (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))-
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What Software and reconstruction can do for the calorimeter designSpeaker: Jean-Claude Brient (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Fast Hadron Shower Simulation using Kernel Density Estimators with the CALICE AHCAL PrototypeSpeaker: Andre Wilhahn (Georg August Universitaet Goettingen (DE))
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Software compensation in a highly granular calorimeter with a convolutional neural networkSpeakers: Xin XIA, xiaxin-ihep Xia
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Testbeam data processing in Key4hepSpeaker: Fangyi Guo (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))
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Coffee Break Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Ancona
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WG1 Plenary: Session II Room 140/3 (Faculty of Engineering)
Room 140/3
Faculty of Engineering
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Particle Flow reconstruction at the Muon ColliderSpeaker: Lisa Generoso (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))
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Impact of timing in calorimeters at future Higgs factories experiments with ML for JER and pattern recognitionSpeakers: Bohdan Dudar (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE)), Hao Liang (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)), Ulrich Einhaus (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))
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Machine Learning based hadron identification with highly-granular calorimetersSpeaker: Andrea De Vita (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))
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Semi-Digital read-out for MPGD-HCAL with Machine Learning techniquesSpeaker: Lisa Generoso (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))
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Exploring DHCAL design and performance with graph neural networksSpeaker: Maryna Borysova (Weizmann Institute of Science)
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Closing Plenary Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Ancona
Polo Trifogli Montedago via Brecce Bianche, 12 60100 Ancona (AN)-
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Report from Collaboration BoardSpeakers: Roberto Ferrari, Roberto Ferrari (INFN Pavia (IT))
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Spokespersons Team FarewellSpeakers: Mary-Cruz Fouz Iglesias (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)), Roman Poeschl (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
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