Name: 5th DRD4 Collaboration Meeting
Start: 2026-04-13T13:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-04-17T13:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

5th DRD4 Collaboration Meeting

from Monday, 13 April 2026 (13:00) to Friday, 17 April 2026 (13:00)

Monday, 13 April 2026

13:30 Work Package 2 (restricted meeting to WP2 participants only)

13:30 - 15:00
Room: 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie

15:00 Work Package 1 (restricted meeting to WP1 participants only)

15:00 - 19:00
Room: 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie
Tuesday, 14 April 2026

09:00 Work Package 3 (restricted meeting to WP3 participants only)

09:00 - 11:30
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre

10:00 Work Package 5 (restricted meeting to WP5 participants only)

10:00 - 11:30
Room: 4/S-056

11:30 Work Package 4 (restricted meeting to WP4 participants only)

11:30 - 13:30
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre

13:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:30 - 14:30
Room: 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie
14:30 DRD4 Plenary Meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community)
14:30 - 15:35
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

14:30 Introduction and general news - Fiorini, Massimiliano (INFN and University of Ferrara (IT))

15:00 Report on WP4 activities - Lapington, Jon (University of Leicester (GB))
15:35 Working Group 1 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community)
15:35 - 16:30
Room: 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie
Contributions

15:35 LGADs characterization using laser-based methods - Kraus, Veronika (Vienna University of Technology (AT))

15:55 SPAD characterization using laser-based setup - Lewis, Harry (TRIUMF)

16:15 Status of SiPM/SPAD characterization subsection in compendium - Matteucci, Giuseppe (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
16:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:30 - 17:00
Room: 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie

17:00 Collaboration Board (for Collaboration Board members only)

17:00 - 20:00
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Wednesday, 15 April 2026
09:00 DRD4 Plenary Meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community)
09:00 - 12:35
Room: 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie
Contributions

09:00 Report on WP1 activities - Pestotnik, Rok (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))

09:35 Report on WP2 activities - Laktineh, Imad (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

10:05 Report on WP3 activities - Cardinale, Roberta (INFN e Universita Genova (IT))

10:40 Report from the CB Chair - Wilkinson, Guy (University of Oxford (GB))

11:30 Report on WP5 activities - Leverington, Blake (Heidelberg University (DE))

11:55 Report on DRD4 test-beam campaigns - Jakobsen, Sune (CERN)

12:15 Collaboration-wide discussion (on common facilities, transversal activities, simulations, outreach, training, etc.)
12:35 Working Group 6 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)
12:35 - 13:00
Room: 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie
Contributions

12:35 An ultrafast plenoptic-camera system for high-resolution 3D particle tracking in unsegmented scintillators - Sgalaberna, Davide (ETH Zurich (CH))
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00
Room: 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie
14:00 DRD4 Plenary Meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community)
14:00 - 14:50
Room: 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie
Contributions

14:00 Overview of DRDCalo Collaboration activities and synergies with DRD4 - Fouz Iglesias, Mary-Cruz (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))

14:25 Discussion
14:50 Working Group 1 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community)
14:50 - 18:30
Room: 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie
Contributions

14:50 Compendium subsection review - Digital SPAD arrays - D'Ascenzo, Nicola (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

15:20 SPAD avalanche modelling - Riegler, Werner (CERN)

15:45 SPAD avalanche modelling - Koulosousas, Seraphim

16:30 Compendium subsection review - SPAD physics - Petrolini, Alessandro (Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Genova and INFN - ITALY)

16:55 Compendium subsection review - Radiation damage - Musienko, Yuri (University of Notre Dame (US))

17:20 Compendium subsection review - SiPM - Gola, Alberto Giacomo (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Petrolini, Alessandro (Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Genova and INFN - ITALY)

17:50 Compendium section review - standardization - Petrolini, Alessandro (Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Genova and INFN - ITALY)

18:15 Compendium wrapup - Retiere, Fabrice
19:00 Social dinner 19:30
Social dinner 19:30
19:00 - 19:05
Room: 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie

19:30 Social dinner
Social dinner
19:30 - 22:00
Room: 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie
Thursday, 16 April 2026
09:00 Working Group 3 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)
09:00 - 10:20
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

09:00 Study of RICH Radiator Gas Alternatives to Perfluorocarbons - Suzuki, Ken (The University of Osaka (JP))

09:25 Test beam of a pressurized RICH prototype - Polizzi, Lorenzo (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT))

09:50 Recent electronic developments at OMEGA - De La Taille, Christophe (OMEGA (FR))
10:20 Working Group 5 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)
10:20 - 10:45
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

10:20 Recent beam test measurements of TR with a GaAs pixel detector - Romaniouk, Anatoli (University of Innsbruck (AT))
10:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:45 - 11:15
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
11:15 Working Group 2 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community)
11:15 - 12:45
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

11:15 Overview of pattern recognition techniques and PID - Santelj, Luka (Jozef Stefan Institute)

11:45 ML techniques for noise reduction in FPGA and development of particle counting in dRICH at ePIC - Rossi, Cristian

12:15 Update on development of gas radiators for Cherenkov detectors - Hallewell, Gregory (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
12:45 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:45 - 14:00
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
14:00 Working Group 4 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)
14:00 - 16:05
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

14:00 PySiPMGui: A Universal Python-Based Software for Photodetector I-V Quality Assurance - Dey, Tanay (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (IN))

14:25 dRICH simulation activities - Chatterjee, Chandradoy (INFN Trieste (IT))

14:50 GPU-Accelerated Optical Photon Simulation Offloaded from Geant4 - Galgoczi, Gabor

15:15 Chroma: An GPU-Based Optical Simulation Tool for Liquid Noble Detectors and Beyond - Li, Xiang (TRIUMF, Simon Fraser University)

15:40 Holistic PID reconstruction for ePIC - Kiselev, Alexander
16:05 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:05 - 16:35
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
16:35 Working Group 5 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)
16:35 - 17:05
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

16:35 Status of R&D on large-size single-fiber scifi mats - Dieminger, Till (ETH Zurich)

16:50 Pursuit of high light yield thin scintllating fibers - Parry, Annabelle Marie (University of Liverpool (GB))
17:05 Working Group 6 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)
17:05 - 18:00
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

17:05 Rad-hard high-granularity optical 5D detectors with novel quartz fibers and pixelated photodetectors - Duran, Buse (Istanbul University (TR))

17:30 Time-stamping single optical photons in intensified camera with Timepix4 readout for quantum applications - Nomerotski, Andrei (Czech Technical University in Prague)
Friday, 17 April 2026
09:00 Working Group 1 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community)
09:00 - 10:40
Room: 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie
Contributions

09:00 The Status of the PMTs in TRIDENT Neutrino Telescope - Xiang, Xin

09:25 The study of prototype with FPMT coupling with ASIC - Wang, Xin

09:50 Simulation of MCP-PMTs - Davidson, Alexander (University of Warwick (GB))

10:15 Ageing studies on HRPPD - Agarwala, Jinky (Universita e INFN Trieste (IT))
10:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 - 11:00
Room: 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie
11:00 Working Group 1 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community)
11:00 - 13:00
Room: 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie
Contributions

11:00 Overview of MCP-PMT performance and latest developments for Particle Physics - Orlov, Dmitry (Photonis Netherlands)

11:30 Modelling of the MCP-PMT response - Korpar, Samo (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))

11:55 Vacuum-based PD: compendium status and next steps - Romano, Angela (University of Warwick (GB))

12:15 First review of VPD Compendium part - Krizan, Peter (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))

12:40 Few-Picosecond Single-Photon Timing with an RF Timer and Nb₂C MXene Photocathode - Margaryan, Amur (A. I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute) AANL)