RD51 mini week

from Monday 21 November 2011 (09:00) to Wednesday 23 November 2011 (20:00)
CERN

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
21 Nov 2011
22 Nov 2011
23 Nov 2011
AM
09:00
WG6 - Production - Fabio Formenti (CERN) Rui De Oliveira (CERN) Hans Taureg (CERN) Ioanis Giomataris (Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA-Saclay)) (until 12:30) (IT Auditorium)
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09:00 Status machines in the fine pitch workshop and last technology achievements - Rui de Oliveira (CERN)   (IT Auditorium)
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09:10 TGEM fabrication procedure - Rui De Oliveira (CERN)   (IT Auditorium)
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09:20 Report from visit of NewFlex company for GEM industrialization - Fabio Formenti (CERN)   (IT Auditorium)
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09:35 Status of GEMs from Korea - Laura Franconi (Universita e INFN (IT)) Andrey Marinov (Ghent University (BE))   (IT Auditorium)
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09:50 Latest news from production of 10 cm x 10 cm GEMs at NewFlex - Hans Taureg (CERN)   (IT Auditorium)
09:55 Industrial GEM production at TECHTRA - Mr Piotr Bielówka (Techtra)   (IT Auditorium)
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10:15 Industrial TGEM production at PRINT ELECTRONICS - Mr Victor Revivo (Print Electronics)   (IT Auditorium)
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10:35 Report visit to ELTOS company for Micromegas industrialization - Alain Delbart (DAPNIA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEN Saclay))   (IT Auditorium)
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10:55 Update on the MPGD pilot technology offer - Hartmut Hillemanns (CERN)   (IT Auditorium)
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WG7 - Test beam - Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR)) (until 12:30) (160/1-009)
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09:00 Introduction - Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR))   (160/1-009)
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09:10 Status & plans of the CMS GEM group - Andrey Marinov (Ghent University (BE)) Stefano Colafranceschi (Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare (IT))   (160/1-009)
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09:30 Status & plans of the JLAB GEM group - Evaristo Cisbani (INFN Rome Gruppo Sanità)   (160/1-009)
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09:50 Status & plans of the THGEM group - Lior Arazi (Weizmann Institute of Science)   (160/1-009)
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10:10 Status & plans of the TOTEM group - Eraldo Oliveri (Sezione di Pisa (IT))   (160/1-009)
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10:30 Status & plans of the CALICE group - Maximilien Chefdeville (LAPP, Annecy)   (160/1-009)
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10:50 Status & plans of umegas TPC group - Georgios Fanourakis (National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos" (NRCPS))   (160/1-009)
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11:10 Status & plans of the COMPASS THGEM group - Dr Fulvio Tessarotto (INFN Trieste) Stefano Levorato (Universita e INFN)   (160/1-009)
11:30 Nikhef TB plans - Harry Van Der Graaf (NIKHEF (NL))   (160/1-009)
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09:00
WG5 - Electronics - Hans Muller (CERN) Dr Jochen Kaminski (Universität Bonn) (until 12:30) (IT Auditorium)
EVO link Tuesday
EVO link Wednesday
WG5 preliminary agenda
09:00 Welcome and Announcements - Hans Muller (CERN)   (IT Auditorium)
09:05 Labview software for SRS readout and testing (via evo) - Riccardo De Asmundis (Sezione di Napoli (INFN)-Universita e INFN)   (IT Auditorium)
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09:30 Update on MMDAQ readout of SRS - Marcin Z Drozdowa Byszewski (CERN)   (IT Auditorium)
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09:50 Timepix adapter for SRS - Michael Lupberger (University of Bonn) Michael Lupberger (CEA Saclay) Michael Lupberger (University of Bonn)   (IT Auditorium)
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10:10 Lessons learnt with the first deployed SRS systems - Sorin Martoiu (CERN)   (IT Auditorium)
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10:30 Update on SRS for the NEXT experiment (via evo) - Jose F. Toledo Alarcon (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia) Jose Francisco Toledo Alarcon (Valencia Polytechnic University (ES))   (IT Auditorium)
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10:50 --- Coffe Break ---
11:00 SRS Beetle chip carrier design at WIS - Dr Lorne Levinson (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))   (IT Auditorium)
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11:20 Status of commercial SRS production for CERN store - Konstantina Mermikli   (IT Auditorium)
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11:40 SRS, status and preview - Hans Muller (CERN)   (IT Auditorium)
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12:00 ELMA: AdvancedTCA Systems Platforms according to PICMG 3.0 for SRS Systems - Friedrich Fix (Elma elctronics GmbH)   (IT Auditorium)
PM
14:00
Opening session - Andrew White (University of Texas at Arlington (US)) Dr Maksym Titov (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR)) Silvia Dalla Torre (Universita e INFN (IT)) Leszek Ropelewski (CERN) Dr Maxim TITOV (CEA Saclay) maxim titov Andrew White (University of Texas at Arlington) (until 15:10) (IT Auditorium)
EVO link
14:00 RD51 collaboration news - Leszek Ropelewski (CERN) Dr Maksym Titov (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR)) maxim titov Dr Maxim TITOV (CEA Saclay)   (IT Auditorium)
14:20 Proposal for 2012 RD51 collaboration meeting in Stony Brook - Klaus Dehmelt (Dept.of Physics and Space Sciences)   (IT Auditorium)
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14:40 Proposal for 2012 RD51 collaboration meeting in Kolkata - Prof. Supratik Mukhopadhyay (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (IN)) Supratik Mukhopadhyay (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)   (IT Auditorium)
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15:00 Announcement of the Workshop on GridPix production at MESA+ - Harry Van Der Graaf (NIKHEF (NL))   (IT Auditorium)
15:10
WG2 - Physics issues - Maximilien Chefdeville (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Harry Van Der Graaf (NIKHEF (NL)) (until 18:40) (IT Auditorium)
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15:10 GridPix chip production in Bonn and NIKHEF 2012 test beam plans - Harry Van Der Graaf (NIKHEF (NL))   (IT Auditorium)
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15:30 Results from the beam test of large area CsI-TGEM–based RICH prototype - Vladimir Peskov (Universidad Nacional Autonoma (MX))   (IT Auditorium)
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15:50 --- Coffee break ---
16:20 Studying the space resolution and the efficiency of resistive strips Micromegas - Mr Marco Villa (CERN)   (IT Auditorium)
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16:40 Gain measurements of various GEM prototypes for CMS - Laura Franconi (Universita e INFN (IT)) Michal Zientek (Wroclaw University of Technology (PL))   (IT Auditorium)
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17:00 Ageing studies of Micromegas prototypes for the HL-LHC - Javier Galan Lacarra (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR))   (IT Auditorium)
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17:20 Preliminary results from the first operation of a 80x40cm2 LEM in a double phase argon LEM-TPC - Devis Orlando Lussi (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))   (IT Auditorium)
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12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
WG1 - Technologies & new structures - Paul Colas (CEA/Irfu) Serge Duarte Pinto (CERN) Paul Colas (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR)) (until 18:30) (IT Auditorium)
EVO link
14:00 A GEM-based transition radiation detector for CMS - Dmitry Druzhkin (Universiteit Antwerpen Physics Department (BE)) Alexander Malinin (ITEP Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (RU)) Alexandre Malinin (Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP))   (IT Auditorium)
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14:20 The FIDIAS project: development of a Micromegas TPC for low energy heavy ions detection - Francisco Jose Iguaz Gutierrez (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR)) Francisco Jose Iguaz Gutierrez (IRFU/CEA-Saclay)   (IT Auditorium)
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14:40 Recent results from the MAMMA micromegas project - Joerg Wotschack (CERN)   (IT Auditorium)
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15:00 No-stretch assembly of triple GEMs - Michal Zientek (Wroclaw University of Technology (PL)) Andrey Marinov (Ghent University (BE))   (IT Auditorium)
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15:20 --- Coffee break ---
15:50 New developments in spark-protected micropattern detectors - Vladimir Peskov (Universidad Nacional Autonoma (MX))   (IT Auditorium)
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16:10 Recent results of Micromegas SDHCAL with a new readout chip - Maximilien Chefdeville (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))   (IT Auditorium)
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16:30 Tests of microbulk detectors in Ar and Ne based mixtures - Francisco Jose Iguaz Gutierrez (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR)) Francisco Jose Iguaz Gutierrez (IRFU/CEA-Saclay)   (IT Auditorium)
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WG5 - Electronics - Jochen Kaminski (Universität Bonn) Hans Muller (CERN) (until 17:20) (160/1-009)
EVO link Tuesday
EVO link Wednesday
WG5 preliminary agenda
14:00 Welcome and Announcements - Hans Muller (CERN)   (160/1-009)
14:05 MICROROC: MICROMEGAS Read-Out Chip - Renaud Gaglione (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))   (160/1-009)
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14:30 Progress with GEMROC front-end and fast DAQ part 1 - Dr Bartosz Mindur (AGH University of Science and Technology) Bartosz Mindur (AGH Univ. of Science & Technology (PL))   (160/1-009)
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14:45 Progress with GEMROC front-end and fast DAQ part 2 - Martina Bucciantonio (TERA Foundation (IT))   (160/1-009)
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15:00 Electronics for GEM R&D at the University of Virginia - Kondo GNANVO (Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Fl, USA) Kondo Gnanvo (Florida Institute of Technology (US))   (160/1-009)
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15:20 Experience with readout of Micromegas for NA62 - Antonino Sergi (CERN)   (160/1-009)
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15:45 --- Coffee break ---
16:00 A quality control system for integrity check of MPGD readout planes exploiting TDR technique - Giampiero Fanizzi   (160/1-009)
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16:20 Status of the BNL chip for Micromegas - Venetios Polychronakos (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))   (160/1-009)
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16:40 First data with the AZ-SRS adapter for BNL chip (via evo) - Kenneth Johns (University of Arizona (US))   (160/1-009)
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17:00 Experience with medium-size SRS for muon tomography (via evo) - Michael Staib (Florida Institute of Technology (US)) Michael Staib (Dept. of Physics and Space Sciences-Florida Institute of Technol) Michael Staib (Florida Institute of Technology)   (160/1-009)
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12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30
WG4 - Simulation & software - Alain Bellerive (Carleton University) Carlos Alberto Bastos de Oliveira (University of Aveiro (PT)) Rob Veenhof (Department of Physics-University of Wisconsin) (until 20:30) (30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium)
EVO link
14:30 Gas gain in a single GEM: parameter space - Sven Dildick (Universiteit Gent)   (30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium)
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15:00 Gas gain in a single GEM: comparison with experimental data - Mythra Varun Nemallapudi (University of Arkansas)   (30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium)
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15:30 Gas gain in a single GEM: charge deposited on the dielectric - Pedro Correia (University of Aveiro)   (30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium)
16:00 The role of CF4 in gas amplification in GEMs - Mohapatra Ankit Durgasis (NISER)   (30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium)
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16:30 --- Coffee pause ---
17:00 Ion back drift studies using Garfield++ for the ILD TPC - Klaus Zenker   (30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium)
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17:30 Excitation cross sections - Buck Terry John (Carleton University) Ozkan Sahin (Uludag University (TR))   (30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium)
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18:00 Penning effects in Xe - ozkan sahin (Uludag University) Ozkan Sahin (Uludag University (TR))   (30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium)
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18:30 Compressibility corrections in Xe - Rob Veenhof (Department of Physics-University of Wisconsin)   (30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium)
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19:00 neBEM 1.8.6 - Prof. Supratik Mukhopadhyay (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (IN))   (30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium)
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19:30 X-ray absorption in a GEM - Yalcin Kalkan (Bursa) Yalçın Kalkan (Muş Alparslan Üniversitesi) Ozkan Sahin (Uludag University (TR))   (30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium)
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