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

from Monday 10 September 2007 (09:00) to Tuesday 11 September 2007 (18:00)
CERN (AB Auditorium Meyrin)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
10 Sept 2007
11 Sept 2007
AM
09:00
State-of-the-art of micro pattern gas detectors (Overview) (until 10:30)
09:00 Introduction to the workshop - Lucie Linssen (CERN)  
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09:10 Current trends in Micro Pattern Gas Detectors development - Dr Maxim TITOV (Freiburg University)  
09:35 Latest progress with Micromegas - Ioanis Giomataris (Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA-Saclay))  
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09:55 GEM and other charge multipliers with VLSI pixel read-out - Ronaldo Bellazzini (INFN Pisa)  
10:15 GEM at CERN - Leszek Ropelewski (CERN)  
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10:30 --- coffee ---
11:00
State-of-the-art of micro pattern gas detectors (GEM and THGEM) (until 13:00)
11:00 GEM detectors for high rate tracking - Bernhard Ketzer (Institut fuer Theoretische Physik)  
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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)  
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12:00 Recent advances in THGEM detectors at Weizmann - Marco Cortesi (Weizmann Institute of Science)  
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12:20 Recent developments on MHSPs and GEMs in gaseous cascade multipliers for ion back-flow suppresion - Joao F.C.A. Veloso (Uni Aveiro)  
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12:40 GEM detectors activity at Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati of INFN - Matteo Alfonsi (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF))  
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09:00
State-of-the-art of micropattern gas detectors (pixel readout) (until 09:50)
09:00 GRIDs - latest progress - Jan Timmermans (NIKHEF)  
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09:20 Experience with 3-GEM configurations using the TimePix - Uwe Renz (University of Freiburg)  
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09:40 MPGD activities - plans in Bonn - Klaus Desch (Bonn Univ.)  
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09:50
Software tools for gas detectors studies (until 10:30)
09:50 Software tools for MPGD simulations - Rob Veenhof (CERN)  
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10:10 GEANT4 and GEANT4 Collaboration - Dr John Apostolakis (CERN)  
10:30 --- coffee ---
11:00
Technological aspects of MPGD (until 13:00)
11:00 MPGD technologies - Rui De Oliveira (CERN)  
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11:20 Large GEM detectors - Serge Duarte Pinto (CERN)  
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11:40 GEM detectors production and QC - Kari Kurvinen (Helsinki Institute of Physics HIP)  
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12:00 A test and certification of GEM foils produced by Tech-Etch - Nik Smirnov (Yale University)  
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12:20 Aging and radiation hardness of gas detectors - Mar Capeans Garrido (CERN)  
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12:40 The LCTPC Collaboration: some key aspects of activity - Klaus Dehmelt (Dept.of Physics and Space Sciences)  
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PM
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
State-of-the-art of micro pattern gas detectors (Micromegas) (until 15:30)
14:00 Micromegas TPC readout R&D - Paul Colas (DAPNIA)  
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14:20 MPGD readout TPC using the charge dispersion signal - Alain Bellerive (Carleton University)  
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14:40 Large size bulk Micromegas - Alain Delbart (DAPNIA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEN Saclay))  
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14:55 Micromegas performance and ageing studies - Dr David ATTIE (CEA/DSM/DAPNIA/SPP)  
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15:15 R&D on Micromegas for an upgrade of ATLAS Muon System for the SLHC - Joerg Wotschak (CERN)  
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15:30 --- coffee ---
16:00
State-of-the-art of micro pattern gas detectors (until 17:00)
16:00 Two-phase avalanche detectors based on gas electron multipliers - Dr Alexei Buzulutskov (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics) Lev Shekhtman (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP))  
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16:20 MPGD for Active Target Detectors in low energy nucear physics - Joel Pouthas (Institut National de Physique Nucleaire... (IN3P3))  
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16:40 Development of Micro Pixel Gas Chamber based on printed circuit technology and its applications - Toru Tanimori (Department of Physics, Kyoto University)  
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17:00
Electronics for micropattern gas detectors (until 19:05)
17:00 Micro Pattern Gas Detectors characteristics and front-end electronics requirements - Werner Riegler (CERN)  
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17:20 MEDIPIX/TIMEPIX - Pixel electronics for MPGD - Michael Campbell (CERN)  
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17:40 Electronics for TPC readout with MPGD - Luciano Musa (CERN)  
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18:00 The AFTER-based MPGD-TPC readout electronics - Pascal Baron (CAE Saclay)  
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18:15 VFAT and discharge protection chip - Walter Snoeys (CERN)  
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18:30 Multichannel readout electronics for MPGD, based on different types of IDEAS chips - Nail Malakhov (Ohio State University)  
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18:50 R&D on ASIC for GEM - Giulietto Felici (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF))  
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20:00 --- Workshop dinner ---
13:00 --- lunch ---
14:00
Forming an R&D collaboration (until 15:30)
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)  
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14:35 Future of the gas detectors - Harry Van Der Graaf (NIKHEF)  
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15:30 --- coffee ---
16:00
Discussion: Next steps, sharing of tasks. (until 17:00)