DRD Calo Collaboration Meeting at CERN

from Tuesday, 7 April 2026 (14:00) to Friday, 10 April 2026 (18:30)
CERN (500/1-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
7 Apr 2026
8 Apr 2026
9 Apr 2026
10 Apr 2026
AM
09:00
Opening Plenary - Roberto Ferrari Roberto Ferrari (INFN Pavia (IT)) Roman Poeschl (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) (until 10:20) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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 - Dr Wataru Otani (University of Tokyo (JP))  
10:05 Organisational matters and discussion - Roman Poeschl (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
10:20 Group photo  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
WP4 Plenary - Electronics and DAQ -Dr Christophe De La Taille (OMEGA (FR)) (until 12:00)
11:00 introduction & news - Dr Christophe De La Taille (OMEGA (FR))  
11:20 planned WP4 activity at GHENT - Matei Climescu (Ghent University (BE)) Kirill Skovpen (Ghent University (BE))  
11:40 Radical DAQ experience - Dr James Wetzel  
08:45
Plenary - Roman Poeschl (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) (until 09:20)
09:20
WP3 Plenary - Marco Toliman Lucchini (Università & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT)) Hwi Dong Yoo (Yonsei University (KR)) (until 10:30)
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 ---
10:50
WP3 Plenary - Hwi Dong Yoo (Yonsei University (KR)) Marco Toliman Lucchini (Università & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT)) (until 12:10)
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))  
08:30 DRD4 Guest Talk - Fabrice Retiere  
09:00
WG2 Photodetectors Plenary - Maria Ruzzarin (until 10:00)
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 ---
10:30
WG1 Plenary - Lorenzo Pezzotti (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT)) Brieuc Francois (CERN) (until 12:00)
10:30 CNN-Based Hadron Energy Regression for the ILD SiW-ECAL AHCAL System - Xin Xia (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Xin XIA 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  
PM
14:00
Parallel sessions - Lucia Masetti (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE)) Adrian Irles (IFIC CSIC/UV) (until 18:00) (160/1-009)
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.)  
14:00
Parallel sessions - Nicolas Morange (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) (until 18:00) (4/S-030)
12:00 An ultrafast plenoptic-camera system for high-resolution 3D particle tracking in unsegmented scintillators - Davide Sgalaberna (ETH Zurich (CH))  
12:30 --- No-host Lunch Break ---
14:00
WP1 Plenary (until 16:15)
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 - Olmo Arquero Peinazo (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)) Prof. Mary-Cruz Fouz Iglesias (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 ---
16:35
WP2 Plenary - Nicolas Morange (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) (until 17:35)
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 Ward Varnes (University of Arizona (US)) Erich Varnes (University of Arizona)  
12:10 --- No-host Lunch Break ---
13:20
WG1 Plenary - Lorenzo Pezzotti (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT)) Brieuc Francois (CERN) (until 15:20)
13:20 Introduction - Lorenzo Pezzotti (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT)) Brieuc Francois (CERN)  
13:30 High-granularity Calorimeter Simulation for the SHiP Experiment - Jesús Márquez Hernández (IFIC/CSIC/UV) Jesus Pedro Marquez Hernandez (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
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 ---
15:50 Collaboration Board Meeting - Roberto Ferrari (INFN Pavia (IT))   (222/R-001)
15:50
Software Tutorial - Brieuc Francois (CERN) Sanghyun Ko (CERN) Andreas Loeschcke Centeno (CERN) Lorenzo Pezzotti (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT)) Andrea De Vita (CERN & Università di Padova) (until 17:50)
19:00 No-host Collaboration Dinner  
12:00 Discussion on renewal of DRD Calo - Roman Poeschl (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
12:45
Closing Plenary (until 13:10)
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))