6th DRD4 Collaboration Meeting

5 Oct 2026, 13:00 → 9 Oct 2026, 13:00 Europe/Zurich

31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre (CERN)

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

Monday 5th October - Room 31/3-004 IT Amphitheatre 

Tuesday 6th October - Room 31/3-004 IT Amphitheatre 

Wednesday 7th October - Room 31/3-004 IT Amphitheatre 

Thursday 8th October - Room 31/3-004 IT Amphitheatre 

Friday 9th October - Room 40/S2-B01 Salle Bohr

Monday 5 October

Work Package 2 (restricted meeting to WP2 participants only)

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

Work Package 1 (restricted meeting to WP1 participants only)

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

Agenda of the closed meeting with a zoom link

Tuesday 6 October

Work Package 3 (restricted meeting to WP3 participants only)

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

Work Package 5 (restricted meeting to WP5 participants only)

Development of a new scintillating fibre

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

Work Package 4 (restricted meeting to WP4 participants only)

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

13:30 Lunch break

DRD4 Plenary Meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community)

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

1 Introduction and news

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

2 Collaboration-wide discussion on DRD4 status and proposal update

16:30 Coffee break

Collaboration Board (for Collaboration Board members only)

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

Link to CB meeting

Wednesday 7 October

Working group 1 - Vacuum photo-detector 1 (open to the whole DRD4 community)

Convener: Retiere, Fabrice

3 The status of PMTs in HyperK

Speakers: NISHIMURA, Yasuhiro (Keio University), Nishimura, Yasuhiro (Keio University (JP))

4 The status of PMTs in JUNO

Speaker: Prof. Wang, Wei (Sun Yat-Sen University)

5 Status and update on the Single Photon Detector Compendium

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

6 Compendium - VPD Physics section review/highlights

Speakers: Krizan, Peter (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI)), Križan, Peter (Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana)

7 Compendium - PMT section review/highlights

Speaker: Lehmann, Albert (University Erlangen-Nuremberg)

10:40 Coffee break

Working group 1 - VPD 2 + SiPM (open to the whole collaboration)

8 Compendium - MCP-PMT section review/highlights

Speakers: Qian, Sen (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)), qians, Sen Qian

9 R&D of a special type of MCP with large open area

Speaker: Hua, Cai (China Building Materials Academy)

10 Single-Pulse Saturation and Recovery Characteristics of MCP-PMT

Speaker: Prof. Chen, Ping

11 EQR SiPM and Recent Progress

Speaker: Han, Dejun (Beijing Normal University)

12 Low-cost pulsed LED System for on-site measurement of SiPM parameters

Speaker: Cojocariu, Lucian Nicolae (Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (RO))

13 Scintillator Characterisation and Hodoscope Development: New Results

Speaker: Dr Filip, Peter (Institute of Physics, ASCR, Prague)

12:30 Lunch

Working group 1 - SPAD array (open to the whole collaboration)

14 Broadcom SiPM portfolio and plans

Speaker: Stefan Brunner

15 CASSIA monolothic SPAD

Speaker: Suligoj, Tomislav (University of Zagreb - FER)

16 AQUA group Monolithic SPAD array porfolio for particle physics

Speaker: Bruschini, Claudio

17 Fraunhofer 3D integrated SPAD arrays

Speaker: Jennifer Ruskowski

18 ST 3D integrated SPAD arrays

Speaker: Thierry Lachaud

15:50 Coffee break

Working group 1 - SPAD physics and compendium

19 Probing radiation damage on SiPM with emission microscopy

Speaker: Paladino, Antonio (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))

20 Angular distribution of SiPM light emission

Speaker: Lucas Backes

21 Compendium - SPAD physics

Speaker: Retiere, Fabrice

22 Compendium - SPAD radiation damage

Speaker: Ratti, Lodovico (University of Pavia)

Thursday 8 October

DRD4 Plenary Meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community)

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

23 Overview of DRD2 Collaboration activities and synergies with DRD4

Speaker: Fiorillo, Giuliana (University Federico II and INFN, Naples (IT))

Working group 1 - Vacuum photo-detector 1 (open to the whole DRD4 community)

Convener: Retiere, Fabrice

24 Compendium - Digital SPAD arrays

Speaker: Nicola D'ascenzo

25 Compendium - Standardization

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

26 Path to compendium completion. Level of review?

Speaker: Retiere, Fabrice

11:00 Coffee break

Working Group 3 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)

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

13:00 Lunch break

Working Group 4 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)

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

27 GEANT4 simulations of amorphous silicon based MCPs

Speaker: Konstantinou, Georgios (CERN - PH/ESE)

28 Geant4 and Key4Hep Simulation of a SciFi tracker for FCC-ee targeting Allegro

Speakers: De Santis, Elena (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH)), Napoletano, Gauri (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH)), Dr Siral, Ismet (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))

29 Application of normalizing-flow neural networks for PID using the Panda Barrel DIRC

Speaker: Dzhygadlo, Roman (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

Working Group 2 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community)

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

30 Developments for particle identification in the CEPC detector

Speaker: Dr Qin, Zhonghua (IHEP China)

31 Treatise on Cherenkov optics and effects from various aberrations

Speaker: Dr Wertelaers, Piet (CERN)

16:30 Coffee break

Working Group 5 meeting (open to the whole DRD4 coomunity)

Convener: Loparco, Francesco (Universita e INFN (IT))

32 Imaging of Scintillating Fibres with SPAD Arrays

Speaker: Dieminger, Till Conrad (ETH Zurich (CH))

33 Timepix4 for X-ray detection and particle tracking within TRT setups

Speaker: Bergmann, Benedikt Ludwig (Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ))

Friday 9 October

DRD4 Plenary Meeting (open to the whole DRD4 community)

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

34 Report from the CB Chair

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

35 Report on WP1 activities

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

36 Report on WP3 activities

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

10:30 Coffe break

37 Report on WP4 activities

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

38 Report on WP5 activities

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

39 Report on DRD4 test-beam campaigns and future plans

40 Report on WP2 activities

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