Name: 3rd DRD8 Collaboration Meeting
Start: 2026-02-25T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-02-25T18:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

3rd DRD8 Collaboration Meeting

Wednesday, 25 February 2026 - 09:00

Monday, 23 February 2026
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
Wednesday, 25 February 2026
09:00 Introduction - Burkhard Schmidt (CERN)
Introduction
- Burkhard Schmidt (CERN)
09:00 - 09:20
Room: 32/1-A24
09:20 Workpackage 2
09:20 - 10:50
Room: 32/1-A24
Contributions

09:20 Introduction to WP2 Projects - Adam Dominic Lowe Cristiano Turrioni (INFN, Sezione di Perugia (IT)) Nicola Pacifico (CERN) Sushrut Rajendra Karmarkar (Purdue University (US))

09:30 Update on lightweight structures for LHCb - Todd Slater (University of Oxford (GB))

09:50 R&D at Brick Klin Composites - Adam Dominic Lowe

10:10 Thermal Modelling and Experiemntal Validation for CMS TBPX Light Ladders - Cristiano Turrioni (INFN, Sezione di Perugia (IT)) Pier Filippo Cianchetta (Universita e INFN, Perugia (IT))

10:30 Database Development Updates - Nicola Pacifico (CERN)
10:50 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:50 - 11:10
Room: 32/1-A24
11:10 Work Package 3
11:10 - 12:50
Room: 32/1-A24
Contributions

11:10 Introduction to WP3 - Bart Verlaat (CERN) Oscar Augusto De Aguiar Francisco (The University of Manchester (GB))

11:15 Silicon microchannels R&D - Javier Fernandez-Tejero (Institut de Microelectrònica de Barcelona (IMB-CNM, CSIC) (ES))

11:35 R&T on microchannel cooling - Damien Colombet Pierre Delebecque (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

11:55 LTCC ceramics - Federico Zangari (CERN, Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))

12:15 Krypton cooling - Bart Verlaat (CERN) Luca Contiero Luca Contiero (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) (NO))

12:35 sCO2 cooling (will be presented in the afternoon after the coffee break) - Camila Pedano-Medina (University of Applied Sciences (DE))
12:40 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:40 - 14:00
Room: 32/1-A24
14:00 Work Package 1
14:00 - 16:05
Room: 32/1-A24
Contributions

14:00 Introduction - Corrado Gargiulo (CERN) Fabrizio Palla (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))

14:05 Curved sensor mechanics R&D - Bartlomiej Adam Markiel (CERN) Corrado Gargiulo (CERN)

14:15 Alignment requirements and status of HW R&D - Leonard Watrelot (CERN) Todor Georgiev Todorov (University of Freiburg (DE))

14:35 Tilted sensor mechanics R&D - Andrea Moggi (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT)) Gherardo Ammirabile (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))

14:45 Lightweight beam pipes R&D - Manuela Boscolo (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))

15:05 Status of robotic systems - Francesco Mazzei (CERN)

15:20 Straw tracker progress - Junjie Zhu (University of Michigan (US))

15:35 Status of wire chamber mechanics - Muhammad Saiel
15:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:50 - 16:10
Room: 32/1-A24
16:10 Work Package 4
16:10 - 17:30
Room: 32/1-A24
Contributions

16:10 Introduction WP4 - Diego Alvarez Feito (CERN)

16:15 Improving the relationship between engineering (CAD) and simulation (Geant4) - Stewart Takashi Boogert (The University of Manchester (GB))

16:50 Project 4.1: Market Survey - Hardware - Vinay Vinay Kumar Jakanachary (LifeLab Foundation for Education Innovation and Research (IN))

17:05 Project 4.1: Market Survey - Software - Mridul Krishan Bhatia (LifeLab Foundation for Education Innovation and Research (IN))
17:30 Closeout - Burkhard Schmidt (CERN)
Closeout
- Burkhard Schmidt (CERN)
17:30 - 17:40
Room: 32/1-A24