Name: Micro Pattern Gas Detectors. Towards an R&D Collaboration.
Start: 2007-09-10T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2007-09-11T18:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

Micro Pattern Gas Detectors. Towards an R&D Collaboration.

from Monday 10 September 2007 (09:00) to Tuesday 11 September 2007 (18:00)

Monday 10 September 2007
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: AB Auditorium Meyrin
Contributions

09:00 Introduction to the workshop - Lucie Linssen (CERN)

09:10 Current trends in Micro Pattern Gas Detectors development - Maxim TITOV (Freiburg University)

09:35 Latest progress with Micromegas - Ioanis Giomataris (Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA-Saclay))

09:55 GEM and other charge multipliers with VLSI pixel read-out - Ronaldo Bellazzini (INFN Pisa)

10:15 GEM at CERN - Leszek Ropelewski (CERN)
10:30 coffee
coffee
10:30 - 11:00
Room: AB Auditorium Meyrin
11:00
11:00 - 13:00
Room: AB Auditorium Meyrin
Contributions

11:00 GEM detectors for high rate tracking - Bernhard Ketzer (Institut fuer Theoretische Physik)

11:20 GEM, applications in synchrotron radiation experiments and tracking in high energy physics - Lev Shekhtman (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP))

11:40 Latest progress in developing GEM-like detectors with resistive electrodes - Vladimir Peskov (Pole Universitaire Leonardo de Vinci)

12:00 Recent advances in THGEM detectors at Weizmann - Marco Cortesi (Weizmann Institute of Science)

12:20 Recent developments on MHSPs and GEMs in gaseous cascade multipliers for ion back-flow suppresion - Joao F.C.A. Veloso (Uni Aveiro)

12:40 GEM detectors activity at Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati of INFN - Matteo Alfonsi (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF))
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: AB Auditorium Meyrin
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: AB Auditorium Meyrin
Contributions

14:00 Micromegas TPC readout R&D - Paul Colas (DAPNIA)

14:20 MPGD readout TPC using the charge dispersion signal - Alain Bellerive (Carleton University)

14:40 Large size bulk Micromegas - Alain Delbart (DAPNIA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEN Saclay))

14:55 Micromegas performance and ageing studies - David ATTIE (CEA/DSM/DAPNIA/SPP)

15:15 R&D on Micromegas for an upgrade of ATLAS Muon System for the SLHC - Joerg Wotschak (CERN)
15:30 coffee
coffee
15:30 - 16:00
Room: AB Auditorium Meyrin
16:00
16:00 - 17:00
Room: AB Auditorium Meyrin
Contributions

16:00 Two-phase avalanche detectors based on gas electron multipliers - Alexei Buzulutskov (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics) Lev Shekhtman (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP))

16:20 MPGD for Active Target Detectors in low energy nucear physics - Joel Pouthas (Institut National de Physique Nucleaire... (IN3P3))

16:40 Development of Micro Pixel Gas Chamber based on printed circuit technology and its applications - Toru Tanimori (Department of Physics, Kyoto University)
17:00
17:00 - 19:05
Room: AB Auditorium Meyrin
Contributions

17:00 Micro Pattern Gas Detectors characteristics and front-end electronics requirements - Werner Riegler (CERN)

17:20 MEDIPIX/TIMEPIX - Pixel electronics for MPGD - Michael Campbell (CERN)

17:40 Electronics for TPC readout with MPGD - Luciano Musa (CERN)

18:00 The AFTER-based MPGD-TPC readout electronics - Pascal Baron (CAE Saclay)

18:15 VFAT and discharge protection chip - Walter Snoeys (CERN)

18:30 Multichannel readout electronics for MPGD, based on different types of IDEAS chips - Nail Malakhov (Ohio State University)

18:50 R&D on ASIC for GEM - Giulietto Felici (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF))
20:00 Workshop dinner
Workshop dinner
20:00 - 23:00
Room: AB Auditorium Meyrin
Tuesday 11 September 2007
09:00
09:00 - 09:50
Room: AB Auditorium Meyrin
Contributions

09:00 GRIDs - latest progress - Jan Timmermans (NIKHEF)

09:20 Experience with 3-GEM configurations using the TimePix - Uwe Renz (University of Freiburg)

09:40 MPGD activities - plans in Bonn - Klaus Desch (Bonn Univ.)
09:50
09:50 - 10:30
Room: AB Auditorium Meyrin
Contributions

09:50 Software tools for MPGD simulations - Rob Veenhof (CERN)

10:10 GEANT4 and GEANT4 Collaboration - John Apostolakis (CERN)
10:30 coffee
coffee
10:30 - 11:00
Room: AB Auditorium Meyrin
11:00
11:00 - 13:00
Room: AB Auditorium Meyrin
Contributions

11:00 MPGD technologies - Rui De Oliveira (CERN)

11:20 Large GEM detectors - Serge Duarte Pinto (CERN)

11:40 GEM detectors production and QC - Kari Kurvinen (Helsinki Institute of Physics HIP)

12:00 A test and certification of GEM foils produced by Tech-Etch - Nik Smirnov (Yale University)

12:20 Aging and radiation hardness of gas detectors - Mar Capeans Garrido (CERN)

12:40 The LCTPC Collaboration: some key aspects of activity - Klaus Dehmelt (Dept.of Physics and Space Sciences)
13:00 lunch
lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: AB Auditorium Meyrin
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: AB Auditorium Meyrin
Contributions

14:00 Experience from RD50 - R&D Collaboration on rad hard tracking detectors - Michael Moll (CERN)

14:20 Towards RD51 - organizational aspects - Christian Joram (CERN)

14:35 Future of the gas detectors - Harry Van Der Graaf (NIKHEF)
15:30 coffee
coffee
15:30 - 16:00
Room: AB Auditorium Meyrin

16:00

16:00 - 17:00
Room: AB Auditorium Meyrin