5th DRD4 Collaboration Meeting

13 Apr 2026, 13:00 → 17 Apr 2026, 13:00 Europe/Zurich

CERN

Fiorini, Massimiliano (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT))

Monday 13th April -Room 40/S2-C01

Tuesday 14th April - Room 31/3-004 IT Amphitheatre 

Wednesday 15th April - Room 40/S2-C01

Thursday 16th April - Room 31/3-004 IT Amphitheatre 

Friday 16th April - RoomRoom 40/S2-C01

Monday 13 April

13:30 → 15:00 Work Package 2 (restricted meeting to WP2 participants only)

Convener: Laktineh, Imad (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

Link to WP2 agenda

15:00 → 19:00 Work Package 1 (restricted meeting to WP1 participants only)

Convener: Pestotnik, Rok (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))

Link to WP1 meeting

Tuesday 14 April

09:00 → 11:30 Work Package 3 (restricted meeting to WP3 participants only)

Convener: Cardinale, Roberta (INFN e Universita Genova (IT))

WP3

10:00 → 11:30 Work Package 5 (restricted meeting to WP5 participants only)

Development of a new scintillating fibre

Convener: Leverington, Blake (Heidelberg University (DE))

Meeting Link

11:30 → 13:30 Work Package 4 (restricted meeting to WP4 participants only)

Convener: Prof. Lapington, Jon (University of Leicester (GB))

Link to WP4 meeting

13:30 → 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 → 15:35 DRD4 Plenary Meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community)

Convener: Fiorini, Massimiliano (INFN and University of Ferrara (IT))

14:30 Introduction and general news

Speaker: Fiorini, Massimiliano (INFN and University of Ferrara (IT))

15:00 Report on WP4 activities

Speaker: Prof. Lapington, Jon (University of Leicester (GB))

15:35 → 16:30 Working Group 1 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community)

Convener: Retiere, Fabrice

15:35 LGADs characterization using laser-based methods

Speaker: Kraus, Veronika (Vienna University of Technology (AT))

15:55 SPAD characterization using laser-based setup

Speaker: Lewis, Harry (TRIUMF)

16:15 Status of SiPM/SPAD characterization subsection in compendium

Speaker: Matteucci, Giuseppe (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 → 20:00 Collaboration Board (for Collaboration Board members only)

Convener: Wilkinson, Guy (University of Oxford (GB))

Link to CB meeting

Wednesday 15 April

09:00 → 12:35 DRD4 Plenary Meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community)

Convener: Fiorini, Massimiliano (INFN and University of Ferrara (IT))

09:00 Report on WP1 activities

Speaker: Pestotnik, Rok (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))

09:35 Report on WP2 activities

Speaker: Laktineh, Imad (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

10:05 Report on WP3 activities

Speaker: Cardinale, Roberta (INFN e Universita Genova (IT))

10:40 Report from the CB Chair

Speaker: Wilkinson, Guy (University of Oxford (GB))

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 Report on WP5 activities

Speaker: Leverington, Blake (Heidelberg University (DE))

11:55 Report on DRD4 test-beam campaigns

Speaker: Jakobsen, Sune (CERN)

12:15 Collaboration-wide discussion (on common facilities, transversal activities, simulations, outreach, training, etc.)

12:35 → 13:00 Working Group 6 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)

Convener: Ozkorucuklu, Suat (Istanbul University (TR))

12:35 An ultrafast plenoptic-camera system for high-resolution 3D particle tracking in unsegmented scintillators

Speaker: Sgalaberna, Davide (ETH Zurich (CH))

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 14:50 DRD4 Plenary Meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community)

Convener: Fiorini, Massimiliano (INFN and University of Ferrara (IT))

14:00 Overview of DRDCalo Collaboration activities and synergies with DRD4

Speaker: Prof. Fouz Iglesias, Mary-Cruz (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))

14:25 Discussion

14:50 → 18:30 Working Group 1 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community)

Convener: Retiere, Fabrice

14:50 Compendium subsection review - Digital SPAD arrays

Speaker: D'Ascenzo, Nicola (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

15:20 SPAD avalanche modelling

Speaker: Riegler, Werner (CERN)

15:45 SPAD avalanche modelling

Speaker: Koulosousas, Seraphim

16:05 Coffee

16:30 Compendium subsection review - SPAD physics

Speaker: Petrolini, Alessandro (Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Genova and INFN - ITALY)

16:55 Compendium subsection review - Radiation damage

Speaker: Musienko, Yuri (University of Notre Dame (US))

17:20 Compendium subsection review - SiPM

Speakers: Gola, Alberto Giacomo (Fondazione Bruno Kessler), Petrolini, Alessandro (Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Genova and INFN - ITALY)

17:50 Compendium section review - standardization

Speaker: Petrolini, Alessandro (Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Genova and INFN - ITALY)

18:15 Compendium wrapup

Speaker: Retiere, Fabrice

19:30 → 22:00 Social dinner

Thursday 16 April

09:00 → 10:20 Working Group 3 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)

Convener: Tessarotto, Fulvio (Universita e INFN Trieste (IT))

09:00 Study of RICH Radiator Gas Alternatives to Perfluorocarbons

Speaker: Suzuki, Ken (The University of Osaka (JP))

09:25 Test beam of a pressurized RICH prototype

Speaker: Polizzi, Lorenzo (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT))

09:50 Recent electronic developments at OMEGA

Speaker: Dr De La Taille, Christophe (OMEGA (FR))

10:20 → 10:45 Working Group 5 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)

Convener: Jakobsen, Sune (CERN)

10:20 Recent beam test measurements of TR with a GaAs pixel detector

Speaker: Dr Romaniouk, Anatoli (University of Innsbruck (AT))

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 → 12:45 Working Group 2 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community)

Convener: Easo, Sajan (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

11:15 Overview of pattern recognition techniques and PID

Speaker: Santelj, Luka (Jozef Stefan Institute)

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

Speaker: Rossi, Cristian

12:15 Update on development of gas radiators for Cherenkov detectors

Speaker: Hallewell, Gregory (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

Abstract.docx

Abstract.pdf

12:45 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 16:05 Working Group 4 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)

Convener: Martinelli, Maurizio (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))

14:00 PySiPMGui: A Universal Python-Based Software for Photodetector I-V Quality Assurance

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24781

Speaker: Dey, Tanay (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (IN))

14:25 dRICH simulation activities

Speaker: Chatterjee, Chandradoy (INFN Trieste (IT))

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

Speaker: Galgoczi, Gabor

15:15 Chroma: An GPU-Based Optical Simulation Tool for Liquid Noble Detectors and Beyond

Speaker: Li, Alex (TRIUMF)

15:40 Holistic PID reconstruction for ePIC

Speaker: Kiselev, Alexander

16:05 → 16:35 Coffee break

16:35 → 17:05 Working Group 5 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)

Convener: Jakobsen, Sune (CERN)

16:35 Status of R&D on large-size single-fiber scifi mats

Speaker: Dieminger, Till (ETH Zurich)

16:50 High light yield thin scintllating fibers

Speaker: Parry, Annabelle Marie (University of Liverpool (GB))

17:05 → 18:00 Working Group 6 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)

Convener: Ozkorucuklu, Suat (Istanbul University (TR))

17:05 Rad-hard high-granularity optical 5D detectors with novel quartz fibers and pixelated photodetectors

Speaker: Duran, Buse (Istanbul University (TR))

17:30 Time-stamping single optical photons in intensified camera with Timepix4 readout for quantum applications

Speaker: Nomerotski, Andrei (Czech Technical University in Prague)

Friday 17 April

09:00 → 10:40 Working Group 1 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community)

Convener: Retiere, Fabrice

09:00 The Status of the PMTs in TRIDENT Neutrino Telescope

Speaker: Xiang, Xin

09:25 The study of prototype with FPMT coupling with ASIC

Speaker: Wang, Xin

09:50 Simulation of MCP-PMTs

Speaker: Davidson, Alexander (University of Warwick (GB))

10:15 Ageing studies on HRPPD

Speaker: Agarwala, Jinky (Universita e INFN Trieste (IT))

10:40 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 13:00 Working Group 1 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community)

11:00 Overview of MCP-PMT performance and latest developments for Particle Physics

Speaker: Orlov, Dmitry (Photonis Netherlands)

11:30 Modelling of the MCP-PMT response

Speaker: Korpar, Samo (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))

11:55 Vacuum-based PD: compendium update

Speaker: Romano, Angela (University of Warwick (GB))

12:15 First review of VPD Compendium part

Speaker: Krizan, Peter (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))

12:40 VPD Compendium: next steps

Speaker: Romano, Angela (University of Warwick (GB))