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

from Monday, September 10, 2007 (9:00 AM) to Tuesday, September 11, 2007 (6:00 PM)
CERN (AB Auditorium Meyrin)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Sep 10, 2007
Sep 11, 2007
AM
9:00 AM
State-of-the-art of micro pattern gas detectors (Overview) (until 10:30 AM) (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
9:00 AM Introduction to the workshop - Lucie Linssen (CERN)   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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9:10 AM Current trends in Micro Pattern Gas Detectors development - Dr Maxim TITOV (Freiburg University)   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
9:35 AM Latest progress with Micromegas - Ioanis Giomataris (Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA-Saclay))   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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9:55 AM GEM and other charge multipliers with VLSI pixel read-out - Ronaldo Bellazzini (INFN Pisa)   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
10:15 AM GEM at CERN - Leszek Ropelewski (CERN)   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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10:30 AM --- coffee ---
11:00 AM
State-of-the-art of micro pattern gas detectors (GEM and THGEM) (until 1:00 PM) (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
11:00 AM GEM detectors for high rate tracking - Bernhard Ketzer (Institut fuer Theoretische Physik)   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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11:20 AM GEM, applications in synchrotron radiation experiments and tracking in high energy physics - Lev Shekhtman (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP))   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
11:40 AM Latest progress in developing GEM-like detectors with resistive electrodes - Vladimir Peskov (Pole Universitaire Leonardo de Vinci)   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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12:00 PM Recent advances in THGEM detectors at Weizmann - Marco Cortesi (Weizmann Institute of Science)   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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12:20 PM Recent developments on MHSPs and GEMs in gaseous cascade multipliers for ion back-flow suppresion - Joao F.C.A. Veloso (Uni Aveiro)   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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12:40 PM GEM detectors activity at Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati of INFN - Matteo Alfonsi (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF))   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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9:00 AM
State-of-the-art of micropattern gas detectors (pixel readout) (until 9:50 AM) (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
9:00 AM GRIDs - latest progress - Jan Timmermans (NIKHEF)   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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9:20 AM Experience with 3-GEM configurations using the TimePix - Uwe Renz (University of Freiburg)   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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9:40 AM MPGD activities - plans in Bonn - Klaus Desch (Bonn Univ.)   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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9:50 AM
Software tools for gas detectors studies (until 10:30 AM) (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
9:50 AM Software tools for MPGD simulations - Rob Veenhof (CERN)   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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10:10 AM GEANT4 and GEANT4 Collaboration - Dr John Apostolakis (CERN)   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
10:30 AM --- coffee ---
11:00 AM
Technological aspects of MPGD (until 1:00 PM) (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
11:00 AM MPGD technologies - Rui De Oliveira (CERN)   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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11:20 AM Large GEM detectors - Serge Duarte Pinto (CERN)   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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11:40 AM GEM detectors production and QC - Kari Kurvinen (Helsinki Institute of Physics HIP)   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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12:00 PM A test and certification of GEM foils produced by Tech-Etch - Nik Smirnov (Yale University)   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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12:20 PM Aging and radiation hardness of gas detectors - Mar Capeans Garrido (CERN)   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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12:40 PM The LCTPC Collaboration: some key aspects of activity - Klaus Dehmelt (Dept.of Physics and Space Sciences)   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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PM
1:00 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
State-of-the-art of micro pattern gas detectors (Micromegas) (until 3:30 PM) (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
2:00 PM Micromegas TPC readout R&D - Paul Colas (DAPNIA)   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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2:20 PM MPGD readout TPC using the charge dispersion signal - Alain Bellerive (Carleton University)   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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2:40 PM Large size bulk Micromegas - Alain Delbart (DAPNIA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEN Saclay))   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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2:55 PM Micromegas performance and ageing studies - Dr David ATTIE (CEA/DSM/DAPNIA/SPP)   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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3:15 PM R&D on Micromegas for an upgrade of ATLAS Muon System for the SLHC - Joerg Wotschak (CERN)   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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3:30 PM --- coffee ---
4:00 PM
State-of-the-art of micro pattern gas detectors (until 5:00 PM) (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
4:00 PM 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))   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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4:20 PM MPGD for Active Target Detectors in low energy nucear physics - Joel Pouthas (Institut National de Physique Nucleaire... (IN3P3))   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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4:40 PM Development of Micro Pixel Gas Chamber based on printed circuit technology and its applications - Toru Tanimori (Department of Physics, Kyoto University)   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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5:00 PM
Electronics for micropattern gas detectors (until 7:05 PM) (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
5:00 PM Micro Pattern Gas Detectors characteristics and front-end electronics requirements - Werner Riegler (CERN)   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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5:20 PM MEDIPIX/TIMEPIX - Pixel electronics for MPGD - Michael Campbell (CERN)   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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5:40 PM Electronics for TPC readout with MPGD - Luciano Musa (CERN)   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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6:00 PM The AFTER-based MPGD-TPC readout electronics - Pascal Baron (CAE Saclay)   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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6:15 PM VFAT and discharge protection chip - Walter Snoeys (CERN)   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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6:30 PM Multichannel readout electronics for MPGD, based on different types of IDEAS chips - Nail Malakhov (Ohio State University)   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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6:50 PM R&D on ASIC for GEM - Giulietto Felici (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF))   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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8:00 PM --- Workshop dinner ---
1:00 PM --- lunch ---
2:00 PM
Forming an R&D collaboration (until 3:30 PM) (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
2:00 PM Experience from RD50 - R&D Collaboration on rad hard tracking detectors - Michael Moll (CERN)   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
2:20 PM Towards RD51 - organizational aspects - Christian Joram (CERN)   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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2:35 PM Future of the gas detectors - Harry Van Der Graaf (NIKHEF)   (AB Auditorium Meyrin)
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3:30 PM --- coffee ---
4:00 PM
Discussion: Next steps, sharing of tasks. (until 5:00 PM) (AB Auditorium Meyrin)