Forum on Tracking Detector Mechanics 2026

from Monday, 1 June 2026 (15:00) to Friday, 5 June 2026 (13:20)
Hotel Hermitage (Maria Luisa)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
1 Jun 2026
2 Jun 2026
3 Jun 2026
4 Jun 2026
5 Jun 2026
AM
08:30
Forum Session 2 - Eric Anderssen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (US)) Georg Viehhauser (University of Oxford (GB)) (until 12:30)
08:30 The iVTX for the Belle II VTX upgrade project - Julien BONIS Mr Dominic Howgill (University of London (GB))  
08:50 The outer vertex of the Belle II VTX upgrade project - Ms Margherita Rovini (INFN Pisa) Maurizio Massa (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))  
09:10 Mechanics for the VELO Upgrade 2  
09:30 Developments in 3D printed substrates for cooling of the LHCb VELO Upgrade II modules - Yutaro Takahashi (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
09:50 The upgrade of the silicon tracking detector at AMS-02 - Mr Xuhao Yuan (Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, China)  
10:15 --- Coffee Break ---
10:35 ATLAS ITk Global Mechanics: Design Overview and Lessons Learned During Construction - Todd Claybaugh (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
11:00 The electrical isolation challenges of the module-to-cell interface in the ATLAS ITk Pixel Outer Barrel. - Diego Alvarez Feito (CERN)  
11:30 Joining and manufacturing processes for detector cooling applications - Thomas Demaziere (CERN)  
11:50 Quality Control of CO2 Detector Circuits for the CMS Phase II Upgrades at CERN - Derek Jan Langedijk (CERN)  
12:10 Vascular networks embedded in carbon composites: material characterisation and compatibility studies - Roberto Prieto Garcia (CERN)  
08:25
Forum Session 4 - Paolo Petagna (CERN) Bart Verlaat (CERN) (until 12:35)
08:30 Commissioning Status and Performance of 2PACL CO₂ Cooling Systems for the ATLAS and CMS Phase-2 Detector Upgrades - Youri Penders  
08:50 Early results from the Surface Storage - Viren Bhanot (CERN)  
09:10 Lessons learned from ATLAS and CMS 2PACL CO2 cooling systems installation for both mechanics and controls. - Jerome Daguin (CERN) Lukasz Zwalinski (CERN)  
09:40 Thermal and Pressure Drop Testing Campaigns of CO₂ Detector Transfer Lines for the CMS experiment - Levent Kilinc (CERN)  
10:05 --- Group Photo & Coffee Break ---
10:35 Experimental testing of a TBPX cooling manifold: validation of the capillary design methodology - Mr Lorenzo Bistoni (Universita e INFN, Perugia (IT)) Pier Filippo Cianchetta (CERN)  
11:00 A Predictive Model for Dryout Onset in Milli Scale CO₂ Two Phase Cooling Channels - Dr Joe Dawe (University of Bath (GB))  
11:20 Experimental investigation of saturation temperature and pipe roughness effects on CO2 microchannel flow boiling for detector cooling - Gian Marco Cioffi (Universita e INFN, Perugia (IT) and CERN) Giacomo Antonini (Università degli Studi di Perugia and CERN)  
08:30
DRD8 Session 2 - Cristiano Turrioni (INFN, Sezione di Perugia (IT)) Nicola Pacifico (CERN) Sushrut Rajendra Karmarkar (Purdue University (US)) (until 12:30)
08:30 Introduction WP2 - Cristiano Turrioni (INFN, Sezione di Perugia (IT)) Nicola Pacifico (CERN) Sushrut Rajendra Karmarkar (Purdue University (US))  
08:40 Performance Targets for Multi-Functional Structures in Future Tracking Detectors - Giorgio Vallone (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
09:00 Ultra-light mechanics for a large-area silicon tracker at FCC-ee - Giada Bonini (Universita e INFN, Perugia (IT))  
09:20 Prototyping and qualification of ultra-light ladders for the CMS TBPX L1 upgrade in preparation for a future replacement - Pier Filippo Cianchetta (Universita e INFN, Perugia (IT))  
09:40 Innovative mechanical structures via Additive Manifacturing - Giorgio Chiarelli (INFN Sezione di Pisa,)  
10:00 Design, Fabrication, and Testing of an Extremely Low Material Budget Carbon Fiber Triangular Truss - Dr Xiaohui Qian (IHEP.CAS)  
10:20 --- Coffee Break ---
10:40 Development of a material knowledge base for High Energy Physics Experiments - Nicola Pacifico (CERN)  
11:00 Active vibration control of detector structures - Finn Barber (University of Oxford)  
11:20 Mechanical Performance of Carbon Fibre Composites After Proton Irradiation: Tensile Testing of Unidirectional and Woven Laminates - Todd Slater (University of Oxford (GB))  
11:40 Measuring Electrical Resistivity of the CMS TFPX Carbon Fiber Support Structures - Christine Angela McLean (The State University of New York SUNY (US))  
12:00 Low Mass Carbon Composites with Integrated Thermal Pathways - Sushrut Rajendra Karmarkar (Purdue University (US))  
08:30
DRD8 Session 4 - Diego Alvarez Feito (CERN) Corrado Gargiulo (CERN) (until 10:30)
08:30 Introduction to WP4 and WP1 Project 2 - Corrado Gargiulo (CERN) Diego Alvarez Feito (CERN)  
08:40 Robotic Radiation Survey and Localization Technology for The Experimental Hall - Haoyu Shi (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))  
09:00 Mobile Mesh Networks - Paolo Francesco Scaramuzzino  
09:20 Adaptive Robotic Intelligence for the Sustainable Lifecycle and Automated Decommissioning of Future Tracking Systems - Carolin Benjamins (RWTH Aachen)  
09:40 Learning from Demonstration for Robotic Disassembly - Carolin Benjamins (RWTH Aachen)  
10:00 Looking ahead - Burkhard Schmidt (CERN)  
10:20 Farewell - Fabrizio Palla  
10:30
DRD8 Collaboration Board (until 12:00)
10:30 Indico Link to the agenda  
PM
15:00
Forum Session 1 - Fabrizio Palla (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT)) Burkhard Schmidt (CERN) (until 19:00)
15:00 Welcome and Organizational Information - Fabrizio Palla (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))  
15:15 Integration of the low-mass, vacuum-operating CBM Micro Vertex Detector - Franz Matejcek (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Institut für Kernphysik)  
15:35 Production-phase assembly, integration and metrology of the CBM Silicon Tracking System - Maksym Teklishyn  
15:55 CHeT: A Cylindrical Helical scintillating-fiber Tracker for MuEDM Experiment - Daniele Pasciuto (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))  
16:15 Mechanical Design of the muEDM TPC - Daniele Pasciuto (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))  
16:30 Next forum advertisement  
16:35 --- Coffee Break ---
16:55 Mechanical Design and Stability Systems of the MUonE Tracking Detector - Anna Driutti (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))  
17:20 Mu3e helium cooling – system performance, humidity control, and optimization for future operation - Dr Thomas Theodor Rudzki (Physikalisches Institut Heidelberg)  
17:40 Ultra-Light Mechanical Support Structures for the Mu3e Outer Pixel Tracker - Ashley Ellen McDougall (The University of Oxford)  
18:00 A Straw Tube Tracker (STT) for the DUNE Near Detector Complex - Saverio Mameli (INFN Pisa (IT))  
18:30 Full-scale thermo-mechanical prototypes for the ePIC OB stave and studies of active vibration damping in airflow-cooled detector structures - Georg Viehhauser (University of Oxford (GB))  
19:00 --- Welcome reception ---
12:30 --- lunch ---
15:00
Forum Poster Session (until 15:30)
15:00 Phase 2 automatic commissioning using auto scan - Loic Davoine (CERN)  
15:00 Thermal Performance and Radiation Tolerance of Adhesives for the CMS Phase-2 Pixel Barrel Mechanics - Andrei Starodumov (Rudjer Boskovic Institute (HR))  
15:05 CMS capillaries production for LHC High Luminosity upgrade - Konrad Wladyslaw Szczyrbak (Tadeusz Kosciuszko Cracow University of Technology (PL)) Arianna Eugeni (Universita e INFN, Perugia (IT))  
15:05 Manufacturing of tool based interposers for the ATLAS Inner Tracker Modules - Mr Sören Ahrens (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
15:10 Thermal Quality Control of TB2S Ladders for the CMS Phase-2 Tracker Upgrade - Pier Filippo Cianchetta (CERN) Mr Lorenzo Bistoni (Universita e INFN, Perugia (IT))  
15:15 Mighty-SciFi Cryo Demonstrator for LHCb Upgrade II - Gauri Napoletano (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))  
15:15 Vibration mitigation: cantilever spring blades for vertical seismic attenuation in GW interferometers - Leonardo Lucchesi (INFN Pisa)  
15:25 CMS Phase 2 Tracker Service Channel: Thermal Performance and Simulation Results - Bartosz Grygiel (CERN)  
15:25 Conceiving an anti-vibration mechanical system on the experience of the Superattenuator for Gravitational Waves detectors: present and future performance - Dr Franco Frasconi (INFN Pisa)  
15:30
Forum Session 3 - Antti Onnela (CERN) Andreas Werner Jung (Purdue University (US)) (until 19:30)
15:30 All hands on deck at DESY - Building the ATLAS and CMS end-caps for the Phase-2 Upgrade - Jan-Hendrik Arling (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
16:00 Carbon Composite Support Wheel for HL-LHC CMS Tracker TB2S Detector - Philippe Lenoir (CERN) Marc KRAUTH  
16:30 CMS Phase 2 Tracker Barrel Pixel: Mechanic Assembly and Integration, tools and QC - Daniele Benvenuti (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))  
17:00 HL-LHC CMS Outer Tracker Endcap Double Disks (TEDDs): The First Experience of Integration and Test of Silicon Modules on “Dee” Structures - Semra Turkcapar (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))  
17:30 --- Coffee Break ---
17:50 Composite Design, Manufacturing and FEA modelling lessons from the Inner Tracker Support Tube for HL-CMS - Sushrut Rajendra Karmarkar (Purdue University (US))  
18:10 Repair Campaign of the CMS Barrel Timing Layer - Tracker Support Tube, the BTST - Pierre Rose (CERN)  
18:30 Thermal studies of the CMS Endcap Timing Layer cooling system - Mihailo Lukovic (CERN)  
19:00 The CMS TEPX detector for the Phase-2 Inner Tracker Upgrade: Thermal Performance and Simulation Results - Yann Herpin (University of Zurich (CH))  
20:00 --- Social Dinner ---
12:35 --- lunch ---
15:00
Presentations from Companies (until 15:30)
15:30
DRD8 Session 1 - Fabrizio Palla (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT)) Burkhard Schmidt (CERN) Corrado Gargiulo (CERN) (until 20:00)
15:30 Introduction DRD8 - Burkhard Schmidt (CERN)  
15:40 Introduction WP1 - Fabrizio Palla (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))  
15:50 Status of the FCC-ee MDI full-scale mockup - Manuela Boscolo (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT)) Dr Andrea Moggi (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))  
16:10 Ultra-thin beam pipes for FCC-ee - Francesco Fransesini (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))  
16:30 Structural Design and Thermal Performance Study of CEPC Beam Pipe Based on an Aluminum Tube Substitution Scheme - Xiaoyan Ma (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))  
16:50 Large-Scale Curved Sensor Mechanics and Integration for Future Vertex Detectors - Bartlomiej Adam Markiel (CERN)  
17:10 Experimental studies for an air cooling system for the FCC-ee inner vertex - Gherardo Ammirabile (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))  
17:30 --- Coffee Break ---
17:50 Mechanical and Integration aspects of the FCC-SEED vertex detector concept - Jeremy Andrea (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
18:10 Overview of the Mighty Tracker Challenges: Material Budget, Tight Envelopes, Installation - Ksenia Solovieva (University of Freiburg (DE))  
18:30 Lightweight hardware alignment system requirements and prototyping - Todor Georgiev Todorov (University of Freiburg (DE))  
18:50 The LHCb Mighty Tracker: Thermo-mechanical design and prototype testing. - Mr Bilal Ganie (University of Manchester)  
19:10 New construction techniques for a fully carbon fiber DCH prototype - Salvatore Maggiore (INFN Lecce e Universita del Salento (IT)) Alessandro Miccoli (INFN Lecce e Universita del Salento (IT))  
12:30 --- lunch ---
14:45
DRD8 Poster Session (until 15:15)
15:15
DRD8 Session 3 - Oscar Augusto De Aguiar Francisco (The University of Manchester (GB)) Bart Verlaat (CERN) Paolo Petagna (CERN) (until 19:00)
15:15 Introduction WP 3 - Bart Verlaat (CERN) Oscar Augusto De Aguiar Francisco (The University of Manchester (GB))  
15:25 Silicon Microchannel Cooling - From Performance Characterization to Detector Applications - Jan-Hendrik Arling (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
15:40 Monolithic integration of cooling microchannels in all-silicon ladders for vertex detectors - Javier Fernandez-Tejero (Institut de Microelectrònica de Barcelona (IMB-CNM, CSIC) (ES))  
15:55 Studies on the structural resistance of Silicon microchannels - Simone Coelli (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))  
16:10 Design Strategies to Improve CO₂ Boiling Heat Transfer in Silicon Microchannel Heat Sinks - Anze Sitar  
16:25 Recent Developments in Microchannel Cooling and Interconnection Technologies - Bianca Raciti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
16:40 Nanofibre-Enhanced Thin Heat Pipes for Thermal Management of Silicon Pixel Detectors (HENAPIX project): Concept, Fabrication Approach and Preliminary Numerical Results - Alessandro Mariotti (Università & INFN Pisa (IT))  
16:55 --- Coffee Break ---
17:15 Liquid CO2 Jet Impingement Cooling - Benjamin Edward Pulver (Purdue University)  
17:30 New Members to DRD8: An Overview of Experimental Capabilities and Infrastructure at the University of Bath - Prof. Carl Sangan (University of Bath (GB))  
17:45 AM4CMS – Additive Manufacture for Cooling Manifold Structures: Project Initiation - Alexander Lunt (University of Bath (GB))  
18:00 Warm CO2 cooling in compact geometries: sub- and supercritical regimes - Ms Camila Pedano-Medina (CERN)  
18:20 A new compressor-ejector cycle concept for detector cooling for both Krypton and CO2. - Bart Verlaat (CERN)  
18:40 Research on Krypton cooling for applications between -55°C and -140°C - Bart Verlaat (CERN)  
19:00
Farewell event (until 20:00)
12:00 --- lunch ---
13:00 --- Bus departure to Roma FCO airport ---