Name: DRD Calo Collaboration Meeting at CERN
Start: 2026-04-07T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-04-10T18:30:00+02:00
Location: CERN

DRD Calo Collaboration Meeting at CERN

from Tuesday, 7 April 2026 (14:00) to Friday, 10 April 2026 (18:30)

Monday, 6 April 2026
Tuesday, 7 April 2026
14:00 Parallel sessions: WP1
WP1
14:00 - 18:00
Room: 160/1-009
Contributions

15:20 Status of EBES experiment at KEK and its silicon-tungsten calorimeter layers - Fumihito IKEDA (School of Science, The University of Tokyo (Ootani-LAB))

15:40 SiW-ECAL: Experience with small e- linac at DIRAMS - Roman Poeschl (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

16:00 Progress in the Development of the Integrated Cooling System for the AHCAL - Andre Klotzbücher

16:20 Transverse Shower analysis with a Partially Instrumented Silicon–Tungsten Calorimeter - Gal Gonen

16:40 Impact of a small Gap between silicon ECAL sensors on the response - Ben Talmor (Tel Aviv U.)
Parallel sessions: WP2
WP2
14:00 - 18:00
Room: 4/S-030
Wednesday, 8 April 2026
09:00 Opening Plenary
09:00 - 10:20
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Spokesperson's Welcome - Roman Poeschl (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

09:25 Report from Technical Board - Gabriella Gaudio (INFN-Pavia) Gabriella Gaudio (Dipartimento di Fisica Nucleare e Teorica)

09:45 Report from Speakers Bureau - Wataru Otani (University of Tokyo (JP))

10:05 Organisational matters and discussion - Roman Poeschl (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
10:20 Group photo
Group photo
10:20 - 10:30
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 WP4 Plenary - Electronics and DAQ
11:00 - 12:00
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 introduction & news - Christophe De La Taille (OMEGA (FR))

11:20 planned WP4 activity at GHENT - Kirill Skovpen (Ghent University (BE)) Matei Climescu (Ghent University (BE))

11:40 Radical DAQ experience - James Wetzel
12:00 An ultrafast plenoptic-camera system for high-resolution 3D particle tracking in unsegmented scintillators - Davide Sgalaberna (ETH Zurich (CH))
An ultrafast plenoptic-camera system for high-resolution 3D particle tracking in unsegmented scintillators
- Davide Sgalaberna (ETH Zurich (CH))
12:00 - 12:30
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
12:30 No-host Lunch Break
No-host Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 WP1 Plenary
14:00 - 16:15
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

14:00 Introduction - Adrian Irles (IFIC CSIC/UV) Lucia Masetti (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE))

14:15 Development of readout electronics for highly granular calorimeter - Melike Akbiyik (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

14:35 Preliminary studies on SDHCAL energy reconstruction optimization - Mary-Cruz Fouz Iglesias (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)) Olmo Arquero Peinazo (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))

14:55 Performance of a partly instrumented highly compact ECAL - Marek Idzik (AGH University of Science and Technology (PL)) Marek Idzik (AGH University of Krakow (PL))

15:15 SiW-ECAL testbeam preparation - Vincent Boudry (Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, CNRS/IN2P3, École polytechnique)

15:35 Status of the EPICAL-2 Digital Calorimeter Prototype - Johannes Keul (Goethe Universität Frankfurt) Johannes Keul (Goethe University Frankfurt (DE))

15:55 MPGD-HCAL status update - Rosamaria Venditti (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))
16:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:15 - 16:35
16:35 WP2 Plenary
16:35 - 17:35
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

16:35 Carbon fiber cryostat R&D for ALLEGRO Ecal - Alexandre Achille Looten (EP-DT-EO)

17:05 Development of Noble liquid Ecal Endcaps - Erich Varnes (University of Arizona) Erich Ward Varnes (University of Arizona (US))
Thursday, 9 April 2026

08:45 Plenary: Questions to Spokesperson Candidate
Questions to Spokesperson Candidate
08:45 - 09:20
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
09:20 WP3 Plenary: Session I
Session I
09:20 - 10:30
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

09:20 Introduction - Hwi Dong Yoo (Yonsei University (KR))

09:30 HGCCAL - status update - Jack Rolph (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))

09:50 CRILIN - status update - Elisa Di Meco (LNF INFN)

10:10 GRAINITA - status update - Stephane Monteil (Université Clermont Auvergne (FR))
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 10:50
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
10:50 WP3 Plenary: Session II
Session II
10:50 - 12:10
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

10:50 DRCAL - status update - Andrea Pareti (Pavia University and INFN (IT))

11:10 SCINTCAL - status update - Etiennette Auffray Hillemanns (CERN)

11:30 3DCaloNu - status update - Davide Sgalaberna (ETH Zurich (CH))

11:50 RADiCAL - status update - Randy Ruchti (University of Notre Dame (US))
12:10 No-host Lunch Break
No-host Lunch Break
12:10 - 13:20
13:20 WG1 Plenary: Session I [start time postponed to 13:45!]
Session I [start time postponed to 13:45!]
13:20 - 15:20
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

13:20 Introduction - Brieuc Francois (CERN) Lorenzo Pezzotti (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))

13:30 High-granularity Calorimeter Simulation for the SHiP Experiment - Jesus Pedro Marquez Hernandez (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Jesús Márquez Hernández (IFIC/CSIC/UV)

13:50 Simulation of the GRAiNITA demonstrator [remote] - Denys Klekots Denys Klekots (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (UA))

14:10 Pulse Shape Discrimination in GRAiNITA as a Novel Dual-Readout Method - Mykhailo Yeresko (Université Clermont Auvergne (FR))

14:30 ML-Based Optimization of SiW-ECAL in terms of Photon Energy Response - Yukun Shi Yukun Shi (Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, CNRS/IN2P3, École polytechnique)

14:50 Bilevel Detector Optimization Framework - Wonyong Chung (Princeton University (US))
15:20 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:20 - 15:50
15:50 Collaboration Board Meeting - Roberto Ferrari (INFN Pavia (IT))
Collaboration Board Meeting
- Roberto Ferrari (INFN Pavia (IT))
15:50 - 17:20
Room: 222/R-001 [10th DRD-Calo Collaboration Board Meeting][1] [1]: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1659497/
Software Tutorial

15:50 - 17:50
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

19:00 No-host Collaboration Dinner
No-host Collaboration Dinner
19:00 - 22:00
Cafe de Mategnin https://www.cafedemategnin.com/
Friday, 10 April 2026
08:30 DRD4 Guest Talk - Fabrice Retiere
DRD4 Guest Talk
- Fabrice Retiere
08:30 - 09:00
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
09:00 WG2 Photodetectors Plenary
09:00 - 10:00
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 WG2 Photodetectors Plenary: Status, Activities, and Next Steps - Maria Ruzzarin

09:30 Developments of glass-less TSV for SiPM for Calorimetry in FBK - Carina Trippl (FBK)
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
10:30 WG1 Plenary: Session II
Session II
10:30 - 12:00
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

10:30 CNN-Based Hadron Energy Regression for the ILD SiW-ECAL AHCAL System - Xin XIA Xin Xia (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Xin Xia

10:48 Machine Learning Based Particle Flow - Lena Maria Herrmann

11:06 The Lorenzetti shower framework - Jonh Brian Lemos (Federal University of Bahia (BR))

11:24 AI/ML approach to Calorimeter Design - Andy White

11:42 Alignment of telescope and calorimeter granular sensors using combinatorial Hough Transform algorithm - Michal Elad
12:00 Discussion on renewal of DRD Calo - Roman Poeschl (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
Discussion on renewal of DRD Calo
- Roman Poeschl (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
12:00 - 12:45
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
12:45 Closing Plenary
12:45 - 13:10
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

12:45 Report from Collaboration Board - Roberto Ferrari (INFN Pavia (IT)) Roberto Ferrari

13:00 Spokesperson's Farewell and next collaboration meeting - Katja Kruger (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)) Katja Kruger (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)) Roman Poeschl (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))