8th DRD1 Collaboration Meeting

from Monday, 29 June 2026 (00:30) to Friday, 3 July 2026 (22:30)
Coimbra

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
29 Jun 2026
30 Jun 2026
1 Jul 2026
2 Jul 2026
3 Jul 2026
AM
09:00
Registration (until 10:00)
10:00
Coffee Break (until 10:30)
10:30
Plenary Session (Introduction) (until 12:30)
10:30 Welcome - Filipa Borges (Laboratory of Instrumentation and Particle Physics) Filipa Borges (Laboratory of Instrumentation and Particle Physics)  
10:50 Physics department - Prof. Manuela Silva (University of Coimbra)  
11:10 LIP - Ricardo Jose Morais Silva Goncalo (Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (PT)) Alberto Blanco Castro  
09:00
Working Group 5: Electronics for gaseous detectors (until 10:35)
09:00 Working group 5 - Welcome - Hans Muller (University of Bonn (DE)) David Jose Gaspar Marques  
09:05 Katherine: An Advanced Readout Platform for Timepix Detectors - Petr Burian (Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ))  
09:25 Readout electronics for TOF and 2D position sensitive RPCs - Alberto Blanco Castro (Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (PT)) Alberto Blanco (LIP)  
09:45 Characterization and test of the ToRA_v1 ASIC - Maxim Alexeev (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))  
10:05 SRS Project - Status report and Latest results - Dorothea Pfeiffer (CERN) Dr Francisco Garcia (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI)) Alexandru Rusu (OAK RIDGE National Laboratory (US))  
10:15 Nuclear electronics and detector systems - Dr Ram Kumar Paul (Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre)  
10:35
Coffee Break (until 11:00)
11:00
Working Group 5: Electronics for gaseous detectors (until 12:00)
11:40 Summary on electronics plans and activities of WG5 at GDD-CERN - Hans Muller (University of Bonn (DE))  
09:00
Working Group 4: Detector physics, simulations, and software tools (until 10:20)
09:00 Introduction WG4  
09:10 Highlights of Simulation School 2026 - Piet Verwilligen (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))  
09:30 Self-Consistent Space-Charge Modeling for Avalanche Simulation Using neBEM within Garfield++ - Shubhabrata Dutta (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)  
09:55 Reconstructing the time of the interaction from diffusion in High-Pressure Argon TPCs - Pablo H. Sevillano (University of Santiago de Compostela)  
10:20
Coffee Break (until 10:45)
10:45
Working Group 4: Detector physics, simulations, and software tools (until 12:15)
10:45 The chemistry of Ar-CF4 wavelength-shifting transfers - Jesús González-Vázquez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)  
11:10 Simulation framework for the optimization of MPGD-based optical amplification structures - Pedro Silva (Astrocent)  
11:30 Upgrading X-ray interactions in Degrad: the case of gas mixtures - Carlos Azevedo (University of Aveiro)  
11:50 WG4 status report - WG4 convenors  
09:00
Working Group 2: Applications (until 12:45)
09:00 WG2 Introduction  
09:14 Characterization and performance study of large-area μRGroove detectors - Qixuan Huang (University of Science and Technology of China (CN))  
09:36 Application of Richardson-Lucy deconvolution to images obtained from GEM/COBRA scintillation readout in the Photon Induced Scintillation Amplifier  
09:58 CBM-TOF states - Ingo Martin Deppner (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))  
10:20 Gas-Amplified PID with UV-Assisted Gas Identification - Vladimir Peskov (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))  
10:40 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 The μ-RWELL for LHCb muon system upgrade - Luca Torlai (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT))  
11:22 Muography (excerpts from muographers meeting) - Gábor Nyitrai (UCLouvain) Dezso Varga (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))  
11:44 NeuThin – Gas Filled Neutron Position Sensitive Detectors equipped with Ultra-Thin Converter Layers - Fernando Amaro (LIBPys - Coimbra University)  
12:06 The PISA Photosensor for Multi-Ton Rare Event Detectors - Dr Cristina Bernardes Monteiro (University of Coimbra)  
09:00
Working Group 7: Common test facilities (until 10:30)
09:00 Overview, update, call for contribution WG7 activities - Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR)) Roberto Guida (CERN) Katerina Kuznetsova (University of Florida (US)) Karl Jonathan Floethner (CERN)  
09:25 Overview/update SRS/VMM3a system for DRD1 test beams - David Jose Gaspar Marques  
09:40 remote: Test-beam performance of capacitive sharing Micromegas detectors - Eshita Vinay Kumar (Ludwig Maximilians Universitat (DE))  
10:00 recent GEMPix TPC test beam campaign in the DRD1 - Samip Basnet (Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ))  
10:20 Upcoming Test Beam Plans at GIF++ of MPI for Drift Tube Detectors - Nick Meier (Max Planck Society (DE))  
10:30
Coffee Break (until 10:55)
10:55
Working Group 7: Common test facilities (until 12:00)
11:05 remote: Status and progress in the MPGD-HCAL R&D - Lisa Generoso (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT)) Antonello Pellecchia (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))  
PM
12:30
Lunch (until 14:00)
14:00
Working Group 1: Technological Aspects and Developments of New Detector Structures, Common Characterization and Physics Issues (until 18:00)
14:00 Overview WG1  
14:10 Summary of the DRD1/FCC meeting of June 16 - Tbd  
14:20 Thin Gap Chamber with DLC cathodes. First operation in Ar:CO2, Ar:CO2:iC4H10 - Luca Moleri (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))  
14:45 A setup for characterization of novel optical amplification structures with wavelength-shifting capabilities (FAT-GEMs) under cryogenic conditions - Diego Rodas Rodriguez (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))  
15:10 Update on R&D of thin gRPCs - Dayron Ramos Lopez (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))  
15:35 Progress in photocathode research for PICOSEC Micromegas precise-timing detectors - Marta Lisowska (CERN)  
17:35 Pixelated Charge Readout of Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors with the Timepix4 ASIC - Eliska Jelinkova (Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ))  
16:00
Coffee Break (until 16:20)
16:20
Working Group 1: Technological Aspects and Developments of New Detector Structures, Common Characterization and Physics Issues (until 18:30)
16:20 Optical Micromegas: Gas Optimization and Neutron Measurements at ISIS - Elisavet Fasoula (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
16:45 R&D on low-background Micromegas x-ray detectors for BabyIAXO - Maria Jimenez Puyuelo (Universidad de Zaragoza / CAPA)  
17:10 Towards a Measurement Along the Wire in Drift Tube Chambers - Nick Meier (Max Planck Society (DE))  
18:00
Welcome Drink & Poster Session (until 19:30)
12:00
Working Group 6: Detector production (until 13:30)
12:00 Production of bulk resistive Micromegas at ELTOS - Mauro Iodice (INFN - Sezione di Roma Tre) Ms Maria Vittoria Rossi (ELTOS)  
12:20 Micromegas production for tomography at Saclay - Brahim Alain Moreno (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Dr David Attié (CEA/Irfu - Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) David Attie  
12:40 Quality control results for the recent CMS RPC production - Salvatore Buontempo (INFN Napoli (IT))  
13:00 New MRPC layout for timing RPC - Kyongsei Lee  
13:30
Lunch (until 15:00)
15:00
Working Group 3: Gas and material studies (until 16:30)
15:00 Welcome - Alessandra Pastore (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))  
15:10 Sealed RPCs status and perspectives - Alberto Blanco (LIP) Alberto Blanco Castro (Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (PT))  
15:30 Eco-friendly RPC operation: preliminary results on new developments beyond SF₆ at GIF++ - Maximilian Lukas Kerker (Rheinisch Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))  
15:50 Exploring innovative helium-based gas mixtures for drift chambers - Susanna Scarpellini  
16:10 Eco-friendly gas test for optically readout TPCs - Melba D'Astolfo (Gran Sasso Science Institute (IT)) Melba D'Astolfo  
16:30
Coffee Break (until 16:55)
16:55
Working Group 3: Gas and material studies (until 18:30)
16:55 Light production in Xe-SF6 mixtures - Mr Afonso Marques (LIP Coimbra / University of Coimbra)  
17:15 Comparing the simulation of electron transport properties of BOLSIG+ and MAGBOLTZ - Max Schmit (RWTH AACHEN)  
12:55
Lunch (until 14:25)
14:25
Invited talk - Paulo Fonte - Paulo Fonte (until 15:25)
15:25
X-ray Fluorescence with MPGDs: from 2D to 3D Imaging (invited talk) - joao veloso (university of aveiro) (until 16:25)
16:25
Coffee Break (until 16:55)
16:55
Working Group 8: Knowledge Transfer, Training, Career Promotion (until 18:25)
12:30
Collaboration Board (until 14:00)
13:00
Lunch (until 15:00)
15:00
Social Event (until 18:00)
19:00
Gathering drink (until 20:00)
20:00
Gala Dinner (until 23:00)
12:00
Plenary Session (End) (until 13:00)
13:00
Lunch (until 14:30)
14:30
Scientific Visits (until 17:30)