US-Japan workshop on 4D tracking - status and future planning

from Tuesday, 24 February 2026 (13:45) to Friday, 27 February 2026 (18:45)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
24 Feb 2026
25 Feb 2026
26 Feb 2026
27 Feb 2026
AM
09:00
Overviews - Koji Nakamura (KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP)) (until 10:30)
09:00 The MiniCactus line of CMOS timing sensors with and without internal amplification in LFoundry 150 nm technology - Prof. Philippe Schwemling (Universitรฉ Paris-Saclay (FR))  
09:30 CASSIA development - Heinz Pernegger (CERN)  
09:55 MadPix development - Umberto Follo  
10:20 Discussion  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Overviews - Koji Nakamura (KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP)) (until 12:30)
11:00 TCAD simulation at BNL - Chandanie Kutwaru  
11:20 TCAD simulation at KEK - Koji Nakamura (KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))  
11:40 TCAD simulation at UCSC - Taylor Shin  
12:00 TCAD Simulations at TexasTech - Dr Timo Hannu Tapani Peltola (Texas Tech University (US))  
12:20 Hands-on TCAD prep and submission  
09:00
Overviews - Koji Nakamura (KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP)) (until 10:30)
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Overviews - Koji Nakamura (KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP)) (until 12:30)
09:00
Overviews - Koji Nakamura (KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP)) (until 10:00)
10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30 Electronics Lab -Dr Jennifer Ott (University of California,Santa Cruz (US)) (until 12:30)
10:30 AC-LGAD read out by TimePix3 - Adib Shaker Christopher Ward Paul Bell (University of Lund) Paul Bell (MAX IV Laboratory Lund University)  
11:00 Experience with ๏ปฟ๏ปฟAARDVARC readout ip - Ka Wa Ho (Brown University (US))  
11:20 Experience with ๏ปฟ๏ปฟAARDVARC readout chip at Syracuse - Andrew Jay Dowling  
11:40 The FCFD devellopment - Irene Dutta (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
12:00 Experience with ITK strip readout at BNL - Maya Nicole Mancini (Brandeis University (US))  
12:05 Si-Ge BJT ASIC demonstration - Issei Horikoshi (University of Tsukuba) Issei Horikoshi (University of Tsukuba (JP)) Koji Nakamura (KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))  
12:10 HP-SOC chip - Dr Simone Michele Mazza (University of California,Santa Cruz (US))  
PM
14:00 Welcome and Introduction - Dr Jennifer Ott (University of California,Santa Cruz (US))  
14:15
Overviews - Alessandro Tricoli (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) (until 14:45)
14:15 Review of on-going international R&D on MAPS - Gabriele Giacomini (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
14:45
Overviews - Artur Apresyan (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) (until 15:10)
14:45 Review of 4D ASICs - Gabriele D'Amen (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
15:10
Accelerator Tour (until 16:20)
16:20 --- Cofee break ---
16:30
Discussions and Planning - Alessandro Tricoli (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) (until 17:10)
16:30 QA and discussion on MAPS and AI/ML  
16:50 Workshop activity planning  
17:10 Electronics Lab -Dr Jennifer Ott (University of California,Santa Cruz (US)) (until 18:10)
12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Scientific Results -Dr Jennifer Ott (University of California,Santa Cruz (US)) (until 15:00)
14:00 Laser tests of a MACLGAD prototype at BNL - Maya Nicole Mancini (Brandeis University (US))  
14:20 EICROC0 testing results (BNL) - Maya Nicole Mancini (Brandeis University (US))  
14:40 Si-Ge BJT ASIC testing results in Japan - Issei Horikoshi (University of Tsukuba (JP)) Issei Horikoshi (University of Tsukuba)  
15:00
Scientific Results -Dr Simone Michele Mazza (University of California,Santa Cruz (US)) (until 16:15)
15:00 AC-LGAD laboratory testing at UCSC - Dr Simone Michele Mazza (University of California,Santa Cruz (US))  
15:15 Thin films collaboration - Earl Russel Tang Almazan (University of California,Santa Cruz (US)) Earl Russell Almazan  
15:30 TI-LGAD testing and zero mass tracking - Adam Molnar  
15:45 First measurement of SiEM device - Mahiro Kobayashi (University of Tsukuba (JP))  
16:00 KEK AC-LGAD testbeam and irradiation - Tatsuya Masubuchi (University of Osaka (JP))  
16:15 --- Coffee Break ---
16:40
Overviews - Koji Nakamura (KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP)) (until 17:30)
17:30
Discussions and Planning - Artur Apresyan (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) (until 19:00)
17:30 AI/ML activcities at BNL Instrum. Dept. - Soumyajit Mandal Prashansa Mukim (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
17:50 AI/ML activities at FNAL - Giuseppe Di Guglielmo (Fermilab)  
18:10 ML implementations for AC-LGAD (Brown, BNL and Zuriuch) - Gaetano Barone (Brown University)  
18:30 QA and discussion on AI/ML  
12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Scientific Results - Gabriele D'Amen (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) (until 15:00)
14:00 Update on Single Event Burnout - Abraham Tishelman-Charny (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) Gabriele D'Amen (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
14:20 Single Event Burnout using 70 MeV Proton beam at RARiS - Masato Terada (The University of Osaka (JP))  
14:40 Radiation-Tolerance Improvement Studies of the LGAD Gain Layer in HPK Sensors - Yua Murayama (University of Tsukuba (JP))  
15:00
Scientific Results -Dr Simone Michele Mazza (University of California,Santa Cruz (US)) (until 16:30)
15:00 Test beam and Irradiation opportunities - Dr Simone Michele Mazza (University of California,Santa Cruz (US))  
15:10 Gain suppression studies - Mohamed Hijas Mohamed Farook (University of New Mexico (US))  
15:25 LGAD Gain Suppression measurements at CENPA - Jessie J Yang  
15:40 High bandgap materials (SiC/Diamond) - Andreas Gsponer (University of California,Santa Cruz (US))  
15:55 SiC production and testing - Gabriele D'Amen (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) Abraham Tishelman-Charny (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) Stefania Antonia Stucci (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
16:10 UH linear accelerator status - Niels Killian Noal Bidault (CERN) Siqi Li (University of Hawaii Manoa)  
16:30 --- Cofee break ---
17:00
Overviews - Koji Nakamura (KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP)) (until 17:50)
18:00
Social Dinner (until 20:30)
12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Discussions and Planning - Alessandro Tricoli (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) (until 15:00)
15:00 --- Coffee Break ---
15:30 Electronics Lab -Dr Jennifer Ott (University of California,Santa Cruz (US)) (until 17:00)