7th DRD1 Collaboration Meeting

from Monday, 23 February 2026 (09:00) to Friday, 27 February 2026 (14:00)
CERN (40/S2-C01)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
23 Feb 2026
24 Feb 2026
25 Feb 2026
26 Feb 2026
27 Feb 2026
AM
09:00
Working Group 2: Applications (until 12:35)
09:00 Results from a compact OTPC at WIS: a step towards a neutron beamline-ready detector - Dr Ryan Felkai (Weizmann Institute of Science)  
09:25 CMS GEM reponse under magnetic field variation - Francesco Confortini (University Federico II and INFN, Naples (IT))  
09:50 Large-area Micromegas detector development of the AMBER experiment - Chiara Alice (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))  
10:15 --- Coffee Break ---
10:35 Sealed mode MWPC telescope for underwater muography - Dezso Varga (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))  
11:00 Performance and validation of the candidate ATLAS RPC mixtures for LS3 and Run4 of HL-LHC - Sinem Simsek (Istinye University (TR))  
11:25 Status update of the CGEM-IT of the BESIII experiment - Michela Greco (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))  
11:50 Performance of Different Capacitive Charge-Sharing Readout Configurations in Resistive Micromegas - Michela Biglietti (INFN Roma Tre)  
12:15 Applications of GEM detectors in nanodosimetry - Marcin Jan Pietrzak  
09:00
Working Group 4: Detector physics, simulations, and software tools (until 12:00)
09:00 Intro - drd1-wg4-convenors@cern.ch  
09:10 Simulation and reconstruction of e+ and e- trajectories in an Orthogonal Fields Time Projection Chamber - Martin Vavřík (IEAP CTU)  
09:30 Simulation Studies: Impact of Hole Pitch Reduction on Electron Transport. - Ajay Kumar (Banaras Hindu University)  
09:50 TBC - Jelena Jovanovic (University of Belgrade (RS))  
10:10 --- Coffee break ---
10:40 Updated kinetic model for Ar/CF4 scintillation under X-rays - Daniel Vazquez  
11:00 A predictive microscopic model for secondary scintillation in Ar/CF4 and He/CF4 mixtures - Raúl Señarís  
11:20 Simulation Studies for the NNBAR Experiment TPC Development - Mr Gabriel Silva (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (BR))  
11:40 TBC  
09:00
Working Group 6: Detector production - Rui De Oliveira (CERN) Fabien Jeanneau (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Gabriel Charles (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Giuseppe Iaselli (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT)) Alain Delbart (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) (until 12:05) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
09:00 News from CERN MPT workshop - Adam Drozd (CERN)  
09:30 News from the sputtering machine of the MPT workshop - Mr Hector Mirallas Sanchez (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES)) Karl Jonathan Floethner (University of Bonn (DE))  
10:00 Mechanical and microscopic characterization of USW straw production quality - Katie Elizabeth Buchanan (CERN)  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
09:00
Working Group 7: Common test facilities (until 10:00)
09:00 Corry update Elena - preliminary title - Elena Sidoretti (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))  
09:20 implementation of the individual planes for the track reconstruction with corry - preliminary title - Dorothea Pfeiffer (CERN)  
10:00
Working Group 8: Knowledge Transfer, Training, Career Promotion (until 11:00)
11:00
Plenary Session (End) - Anna Colaleo (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT)) Alessandra Pastore (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT)) Piotr Gasik (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE)) Eraldo Oliveri (CERN) Beatrice Mandelli (CERN) Maxim TITOV (CEA Saclay) Leszek Ropelewski (CERN) (until 11:30)
PM
13:00
Management Board -Dr Maksym Titov (IRFU, CEA Saclay, Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Gabriella Pugliese (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT)) Eraldo Oliveri (CERN) (until 14:00)
13:00 DRD1 Management Board Meeting (DRD1 MB 2026 / 02) - Eraldo Oliveri (CERN) Dr Maksym Titov (IRFU, CEA Saclay, Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Gabriella Pugliese (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))  
14:00
Plenary Session (Introduction) - Eraldo Oliveri (CERN) Anna Colaleo (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT)) Maxim TITOV (CEA Saclay) Beatrice Mandelli (CERN) Leszek Ropelewski (CERN) Piotr Gasik (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE)) (until 14:30) (40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie)
14:30
Working Group 1: Technological Aspects and Developments of New Detector Structures, Common Characterization and Physics Issues (until 17:55) (40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie)
14:30 proANUBIS : an RPC-based detector for long-lived particles search - Aashaq Shah (University of Cambridge (GB))  
14:55 Optical readout Micromegas: spatial resolution measurements and beta imaging - Elisavet Fasoula (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
15:20 T2K TPC : one year of data taking - David Henaff (CEA)  
15:45 Drift-field distortions in the ALICE TPC in LHC Run 3 - Janis Jäger (Goethe University Frankfurt (DE))  
16:10 --- Coffee break ---
16:40 Picosec Timing with Graph Neural Networks - Mr Ioannis Karakoulias (Phd Student in A.U.TH)  
17:05 Recent Advancements on the PICOSEC Micromegas Development - Alexandra Kallitsopoulou (CEA / IRFU / Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
17:30 Low energy ion impact point measurement with VMMs with a low pressure MICROMEGAS - Andrea Foresi (Universita Siena & INFN Pisa (IT))  
14:00
Working Group 3: Gas and material studies (until 16:50) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
14:00 Welcome - Stefan Roth (Rheinisch Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE)) Gianfranco Morello (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT)) Francesco Renga (INFN Roma) Beatrice Mandelli (CERN) Alessandra Pastore (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))  
14:10 Exploring high-concentration iC4H10 gas mixtures for RPC detectors - Mattia Verzeroli (Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CN))  
14:30 µRwell Characterisation with low-CF4 concentrations - Stefania Juks (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
14:50 Separation Challenges and Material Solutions for CF₄ and C₂F₆ Removal from N₂ and CO₂ - Jelena Jovanovic (University of Belgrade (RS))  
15:10 --- Coffee break ---
15:30 Strategies for Fluorinated Gas Separation - Recent Results and Ongoing Work - Maria Cristina Arena (CERN)  
15:50 Search for Eco-friendly gases – a set-up for gas properties investigation - filomena santos Filomena Pinto dos Santos (Universidade de Coimbra)  
16:10 Preliminary studies of the background due to fast netron interactions in a triple-GEM detector with Timepix readout - Gerardo Claps  
16:30 Mechanical Characterization of Ultrathin Wires for Drift Chamber Applications - Muhammad Saiel  
14:00
Working Group 5: Electronics for gaseous detectors (until 17:00)
13:30
Collaboration Board - Anna Colaleo (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT)) (until 15:30) (30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium)
15:30
Working Group 7: Common test facilities - Katerina Kuznetsova (University of Florida (US)) Roberto Guida (CERN) Karl Jonathan Floethner (University of Bonn (DE)) Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR)) (until 18:10) (30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium)
15:30 MPGDHCAL TB - Maryna Borysova (Weizmann Institute of Science) Lisa Generoso (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))  
15:50 ePIC MPGD trackers plans and requirements - preliminary title - Francesco Bossu (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Kondo Gnanvo (Southeastern Universities Research Association, Inc. (US)) Fabien Jeanneau (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Annalisa D'Angelo (Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata & INFN Roma Tor Vergata)  
16:10 --- The Break ---
16:30 Invited talk: EURO-LABS - Paolo Giacomelli (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))  
16:50 A practical & open-source solution for read-out mapping from Gerber files - Romano Orlandini (Universita e INFN Roma Tre (IT)) Mauro Iodice (INFN - Sezione di Roma Tre)