5th DRD4 Collaboration Meeting

from Monday, 13 April 2026 (13:00) to Friday, 17 April 2026 (13:00)
CERN (40/S2-C01)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
13 Apr 2026
14 Apr 2026
15 Apr 2026
16 Apr 2026
17 Apr 2026
AM
09:00
Work Package 3 (restricted meeting to WP3 participants only) - Cardinale, Roberta (INFN e Universita Genova (IT)) (until 11:30) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
WP3
10:00
Work Package 5 (restricted meeting to WP5 participants only) - Leverington, Blake (Heidelberg University (DE)) (until 11:30) (4/S-056)
11:30
Work Package 4 (restricted meeting to WP4 participants only) -Prof. Lapington, Jon (University of Leicester (GB)) (until 13:30) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
09:00
DRD4 Plenary Meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community) - Fiorini, Massimiliano (INFN and University of Ferrara (IT)) (until 12:35) (40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie)
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))  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
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.)  
09:00
Working Group 3 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity) - Tessarotto, Fulvio (Universita e INFN Trieste (IT)) (until 10:20) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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 - Dr De La Taille, Christophe (OMEGA (FR))  
10:20
Working Group 5 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity) - Jakobsen, Sune (CERN) (until 10:45) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
10:20 Recent beam test measurements of TR with a GaAs pixel detector - Dr Romaniouk, Anatoli (University of Innsbruck (AT))  
10:45 --- Coffee break ---
11:15
Working Group 2 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community) - Easo, Sajan (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB)) (until 12:45) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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))  
09:00
Working Group 1 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community) - Retiere, Fabrice (until 10:40) (40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie)
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 ---
11:00
Working Group 1 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community) (until 13:00) (40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie)
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)  
PM
13:30
Work Package 2 (restricted meeting to WP2 participants only) - Laktineh, Imad (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) (until 15:00) (40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie)
15:00
Work Package 1 (restricted meeting to WP1 participants only) - Pestotnik, Rok (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI)) (until 19:00) (40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie)
13:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:30
DRD4 Plenary Meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community) - Fiorini, Massimiliano (INFN and University of Ferrara (IT)) (until 15:35) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
14:30 Introduction and general news - Fiorini, Massimiliano (INFN and University of Ferrara (IT))  
15:00 Report on WP4 activities - Prof. Lapington, Jon (University of Leicester (GB))  
15:35
Working Group 1 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community) - Retiere, Fabrice (until 16:30)
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 ---
17:00
Collaboration Board (for Collaboration Board members only) - Wilkinson, Guy (University of Oxford (GB)) (until 20:00) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
12:35
Working Group 6 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity) - Ozkorucuklu, Suat (Istanbul University (TR)) (until 13:00)
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 ---
14:00
DRD4 Plenary Meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community) - Fiorini, Massimiliano (INFN and University of Ferrara (IT)) (until 14:50) (40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie)
14:00 Overview of DRDCalo Collaboration activities and synergies with DRD4 - Prof. 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) - Retiere, Fabrice (until 18:30) (40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie)
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  
16:05 --- Coffee ---
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 - Petrolini, Alessandro (Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Genova and INFN - ITALY) Gola, Alberto Giacomo (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)  
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  
19:30 --- Social dinner ---
12:45 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Working Group 4 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity) - Martinelli, Maurizio (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT)) (until 16:05) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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 ---
16:35
Working Group 5 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity) - Jakobsen, Sune (CERN) (until 17:05) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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) - Ozkorucuklu, Suat (Istanbul University (TR)) (until 18:00) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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)