Name: 9th RD51 Collaboration Meeting
Start: 2012-02-20T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2012-02-22T19:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

9th RD51 Collaboration Meeting

from Monday, February 20, 2012 (9:00 AM) to Wednesday, February 22, 2012 (7:00 PM)

Monday, February 20, 2012
9:00 AM Opening Session
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
Contributions

9:00 AM Collaboration News - Leszek Ropelewski (CERN) maxim titov

9:30 AM MPGD Industrial Event at LAPP on April 26/27 - Catherine Juliette Adloff (Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et des Particules (IN2P3))

9:45 AM Summary of the RD51 Industrialization Efforts - Fabio Formenti (CERN)

10:45 AM Presentation of the 2011 RD51 Common Projects

10:50 AM Development of innovative resistive GEM alpha detectors for earthquakes - Vladimir Peskov (Universidad Nacional Autonoma (MX))

11:05 AM A low mass microbulk with real XY strips - Theodoros Geralis (Nat. Cent. for Sci. Res. Demokritos (GR))

11:20 AM Thin and high-pitch laser-etched mesh manufacturing and bulking - Paul Colas (CEA/Irfu)

11:35 AM MPGDs technology laboratory for training, development, fabrication, applications and innovations in Colombia - Rafael Gutierrez (Universidad Antonio Nariño)

11:50 AM RD51 Collaboration Meeting in Stony Brook on Oct. 1-4 - Klaus Dehmelt (Dept.of Physics and Space Sciences)
1:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM WG5 - Electronics
2:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
Contributions

2:00 PM Welcome and Announcements - Hans Muller (CERN)

2:05 PM Status report on JLab GEM detector electronics (via EVO) - Paolo Musico (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))

2:30 PM Progress with the T2DM2 project - Pierre Salin (College de France (FR))

2:55 PM Clock and Trigger Generator and Fan-out for SRS - Givi Sekhniaidze (Universita e INFN (IT))

3:05 PM SRS Labview status - Givi Sekhniaidze (Universita e INFN (IT))

3:20 PM Status of SRS production by PRISMA Electronics (via EVO) - Petros Soukoulias (Prisma Electronics SA)

3:50 PM SRS overview: Users & Developers, Order status, CERN store - Hans Muller (CERN)

4:15 PM SRS News: Zero supression, SRU Rev2, VFAT and Beetle hybrids, DTC links - Sorin Martoiu (CERN)

4:40 PM Update on ATLAS Micromegas experience with the SRS - Marcin Z Drozdowa Byszewski (CERN)

5:00 PM SRTCS , a Labview based test system for SRS electronics - Volkan Gezer (Eskisehir Osmangazi University (TR))

5:20 PM RCDAQ , a lightweight and powerful DAQ system for small test systems - Martin Purschke (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)

5:50 PM Scalable Readout System in an AdvancedTCA - Wojciech Jalmuzna (EICSYS GmbH)

6:10 PM Scalability from MTCA to ATCA - Friedrich Fix (Elma elctronics GmbH)

6:30 PM Status SRS Timepix readout - Jochen Kaminski (University of Bonn)

6:40 PM ALICE EMCaL readout via SRU - Terry Awes (Oak Ridge National Laboratory - (US))
7:00 PM RD51 Collaboration Board

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
9:00 AM WG1 - Technologies and New Structures
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
Contributions

9:00 AM GEMs for ALICE TPC upgrade - Chilo Garabatos Cuadrado (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

9:20 AM GEM muon chambers for CMS upgrade - Archana Sharma (CERN)

9:40 AM Status of GEMs made in Korea - Laura Franconi (Universita e INFN (IT))

9:50 AM Status of no-stretch no-spacer GEM assembly - Andrey Marinov (Ghent University (BE)) Laura Franconi (Universita e INFN (IT))

10:00 AM The design and preliminary tests of microstrip-microgap RPC - Vladimir Peskov (Universidad Nacional Autonoma (MX))

10:40 AM Transparent neutron detectors for the nTOF experiment - Francesca Belloni

11:00 AM Piggy Back - Ioanis Giomataris (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR))

11:20 AM Development and tests of Micro pixel chamber with resistive cathode and capacitive readout - Atsuhiko Ochi (Kobe University (JP))

11:40 AM Muon tomography using Micromegas - Pierre Salin (College de France (FR))
1:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM WG2 - Caracterisation and Physics issues
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
Contributions

2:00 PM Performance of a Micromegas telescope - Jonathan Frederik Bortfeldt (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen (DE))

2:20 PM TCPD, a ThickGEM+WireChamber Combination for Cherenkov Photon Detection - Gergoe Hamar (Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HU))

2:40 PM High Resolution Scan of ThickGEM for Single Photo-electron Detection - Gergoe Hamar (Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HU))

3:00 PM In-beam results of a potential THGEM element for DHCAL using a general analog readout - Carlos Azevedo (University of Aveiro)

3:20 PM GridPix detector in Dual Phase noble gas TPCs - Matteo Alfonsi (CERN)

4:00 PM A novel liquid-xenon detector concept for combined Fast-Neutron and Gamma Imaging and Spectroscopy - amos breskin (weizmann institute)

4:20 PM Micromegas Operation at high pressure in Xe-Trimetilamine mixture - Diana Carolina Herrera (University of Zaragoza)

4:40 PM Summary of collaboration board meeting - Silvia Dalla Torre (Universita e INFN (IT))
7:30 PM Collaboration Dinner

7:30 PM - 11:30 PM
Room: Auberge à la ferme de Bajole
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
9:00 AM WG7 - Test Beam
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
Contributions

9:00 AM WG7 status - prospects - Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR))

9:20 AM Track finding with the RD51 beam telescopes - Konstantinos Karakostas (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR))
10:00 AM Special InGrid/Gridpix Meeting
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
Contributions

10:00 AM Introduction to and experience with GridPix detectors - Frederik Hartjes (NIKHEF (NL))

10:20 AM news on production at IZM/Twente - Yevgen Bilevych (University of Bonn)

10:40 AM First test results on new structures from Bonn - Jochen Kaminski (Universitaet Bonn (DE))

11:00 AM Measuring gas gain fluctuations with InGrid/TimePix - Paul Colas (CEA/Irfu)

11:20 AM First Results from Ceramic on Medipix2 - David ATTIE (CEA/DSM/DAPNIA/SPP)

11:40 AM Application of GridPix in LC-TPC - Jan Timmermans

12:00 PM Discussion: "InGrid" Technology and RD51 - Harry van der Graaf Maxim Titov
1:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM WG4 - Simulations and Software Tools
2:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
Contributions

2:00 PM Gain studies in pure CF4 and CF4 mixtures - Tania Moulik

2:30 PM GEM gain and conductivity - Mythra Nemallapudi

3:00 PM Basics of Polyimide - Yalçın Kalkan (Uludag university, Bursa, Turkey)

4:00 PM Gas gain in a single GEM: Charging-up effect for electrons and ions - Correia, Pedro

4:30 PM Photon feed-back in gas mixtures - Özkan Şahin (Uludag university, Bursa, Turkey)