Name: 7th DRD1 Collaboration Meeting
Start: 2026-02-23T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-02-27T14:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

7th DRD1 Collaboration Meeting

from Monday, February 23, 2026 (9:00 AM) to Friday, February 27, 2026 (2:00 PM)

Monday, February 23, 2026
1:00 PM Management Board
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: 40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr
Contributions

1:00 PM DRD1 Management Board Meeting (DRD1 MB 2026 / 02) - Eraldo Oliveri (CERN) Gabriella Pugliese (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT)) Maksym Titov (IRFU, CEA Saclay, Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
2:00 PM Plenary Session (Introduction)
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie
Contributions

2:00 PM Welcome and News - Anna Colaleo (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT)) Beatrice Mandelli (CERN) Eraldo Oliveri (CERN) Leszek Ropelewski (CERN) Maksym Titov (IRFU, CEA Saclay, Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Piotr Gasik (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

2:15 PM 2026 DRD1 Collaboration Meeting Ouside CERN - Coimbra Proposal - Afonso Marques Afonso Marques (LIP Coimbra / University of Coimbra)
2:30 PM Working Group 1: Technological Aspects and Developments of New Detector Structures, Common Characterization and Physics Issues
2:30 PM - 6:20 PM
Room: 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie
Contributions

2:30 PM Performance of ANUBIS demonstrator with the LHC collision data - Aashaq Shah (University of Cambridge (GB))

2:55 PM T2K TPC : one year of data taking - David Henaff (CEA)

3:20 PM Drift-field distortions in the ALICE TPC in LHC Run 3 - Janis Jäger (Goethe University Frankfurt (DE))

3:45 PM Optical readout Micromegas: spatial resolution measurements and beta imaging - Elisavet Fasoula (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

4:40 PM Picosec Timing with Graph Neural Networks - Ioannis Karakoulias (Phd Student in A.U.TH)

5:05 PM Recent Advancements on the PICOSEC Micromegas Development - Alexandra Kallitsopoulou (CEA / IRFU / Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

5:30 PM Low energy ion impact point measurement with VMMs with a low pressure MICROMEGAS - Andrea Foresi (Universita Siena & INFN Pisa (IT))

5:55 PM Triple-GEM Characterization for High-Pressure Gas Argon-Based Operation - Tanaz Angelina Mohayai (Illinois Institute of Technology) Tanaz Mohayai (Indiana University)
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
9:00 AM Working Group 2: Applications
9:00 AM - 12:35 PM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

9:00 AM Results from a compact OTPC at WIS: a step towards a neutron beamline-ready detector - Ryan Felkai (Weizmann Institute of Science)

9:25 AM CMS GEM reponse under magnetic field variation - Francesco Confortini (University Federico II and INFN, Naples (IT))

9:50 AM Large-area Micromegas detector development of the AMBER experiment - Chiara Alice (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))

10:15 AM Sealed mode MWPC telescope for underwater muography - Dezso Varga (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))

11:00 AM Performance and validation of the candidate ATLAS RPC mixtures for LS3 and Run4 of HL-LHC - Sinem Simsek (Istinye University (TR))

11:25 AM Status update of the CGEM-IT of the BESIII experiment - Michela Greco (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))

11:50 AM Performance of Different Capacitive Charge-Sharing Readout Configurations in Resistive Micromegas - Michela Biglietti Michela Biglietti (INFN Roma Tre)

12:15 PM MPGDs applications in nanodosimetry - Marcin Jan Pietrzak Marcin Pietrzak (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Poland)
2:00 PM Working Group 3: Gas and material studies
2:00 PM - 4:50 PM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

2:00 PM Welcome - Alessandra Pastore (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT)) Beatrice Mandelli (CERN) Francesco Renga (INFN Roma) Gianfranco Morello (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT)) Stefan Roth (Rheinisch Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))

2:10 PM Exploring high-concentration iC4H10 gas mixtures for RPC detectors - Mattia Verzeroli (Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CN))

2:30 PM µRwell Characterisation with low-CF4 concentrations - Stefania Juks (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

2:50 PM Separation Challenges and Material Solutions for CF₄ and C₂F₆ Removal from N₂ and CO₂ - Jelena Jovanovic (University of Belgrade (RS))

3:30 PM Strategies for Fluorinated Gas Separation - Recent Results and Ongoing Work - Maria Cristina Arena (CERN)

3:50 PM Search for Eco-friendly gases – a set-up for gas properties investigation - Filomena Pinto dos Santos (Universidade de Coimbra) filomena santos

4:10 PM Preliminary studies of the background due to fast netron interactions in a triple-GEM detector with Timepix readout - Gerardo Claps

4:30 PM Mechanical Characterization of Ultrathin Wires for Drift Chamber Applications - Muhammad Saiel
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
11:00 AM Working Group 4: Detector physics, simulations, and software tools
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Room: 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie
Contributions

11:00 AM WG4 updates - Marcello Abbrescia (Bari Physics Department and INFN) drd1-wg4-convenors@cern.ch

11:15 AM Simulation and reconstruction of e+ and e- trajectories in an Orthogonal Fields Time Projection Chamber - Martin Vavřík (IEAP CTU)

11:35 AM Simulation Studies: Impact of Hole Pitch Reduction on Electron Transport. - Rajiv Gupta

11:55 AM A GUI for Magboltz - Michele Renda (IFIN-HH)

12:40 PM Updated kinetic model for Ar/CF4 scintillation under X-rays - Daniel Vazquez

1:00 PM A predictive microscopic model for secondary scintillation in Ar/CF4 and He/CF4 mixtures - Raúl Señarís

1:20 PM Simulation Studies for the NNBAR Experiment TPC Development - Gabriel Silva (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (BR))
2:00 PM Working Group 5: Electronics for gaseous detectors
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie
Contributions

2:00 PM Introduction - Hans Muller (University of Bonn (DE))

2:05 PM Development of FPGA-sourced 100GB RDMA in Bucharest (ZOOM) - Matei Vasile (IFIN-HH (RO))

2:30 PM News on the TORA ASIC - Gianni Mazza

3:00 PM R&D on GDD lab service electronics - Hans Muller (University of Bonn (DE))

3:30 PM 100 GB eFEC backend for SRSe -- Design status & plans at UPV (ZOOM) - Jose Francisco Toledo Alarcon (Valencia Polytechnic University (ES)) Rubén Caballer Forner

4:00 PM VMM3a and VMM3s situation -- Round table - Lorne Levinson (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))

4:30 PM ASIC design for DRD1 - Sorin Martoiu (Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (RO))
Thursday, February 26, 2026
9:00 AM Working Group 6: Detector production
9:00 AM - 12:05 PM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

9:00 AM News from CERN MPT workshop - Adam Drozd (CERN)

9:30 AM News from the sputtering machine of the MPT workshop - Karl Jonathan Floethner (University of Bonn (DE))

10:00 AM Mechanical and microscopic characterization of USW straw production quality - Katie Elizabeth Buchanan (CERN)

11:00 AM Status of DLC machine for INFN-oriented applications - Gianfranco Morello (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))
1:30 PM Collaboration Board

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
3:30 PM Working Group 7: Common test facilities
3:30 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

3:30 PM MPGD-HCAL R&D: PS Test Beam 10/25 with VMM3a - Lisa Generoso (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT)) Maryna Borysova (Weizmann Institute of Science)

3:50 PM ePIC MPGD Trackers Test beam Plans & Other ongoing R&Ds - Annalisa D'Angelo (Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata & INFN Roma Tor Vergata) Fabien Jeanneau (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Francesco Bossu (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Kondo Gnanvo (Southeastern Universities Research Association, Inc. (US))

4:10 PM HYDRA TPC status update: November beamtime results - Andrea Lagni (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt (DE))

4:30 PM Invited talk: EURO-LABS - Paolo Giacomelli (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))
Friday, February 27, 2026
9:00 AM Working Group 7: Common test facilities
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie
Contributions

9:00 AM 2026 Test Beam Campaigns Update - Karl Jonathan Floethner (University of Bonn (DE)) Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR))

9:20 AM Corryvreckan for MPGD, updates and quick guide - Elena Sidoretti (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))

9:40 AM A practical & open-source solution for read-out mapping from Gerber files - Mauro Iodice (INFN - Sezione di Roma Tre) Romano Orlandini (Universita e INFN Roma Tre (IT))
10:00 AM Working Group 8: Knowledge Transfer, Training, Career Promotion
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie
Contributions

10:00 AM Updates from WG8 - Elisabetta Baracchini (Gran Sasso Science Institute) Florian Maximilian Brunbauer (CERN) Mauro Iodice (INFN - Sezione di Roma Tre) Raheema Hafeji (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC))
10:30 AM Plenary Session (End)

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie