9th RD51 Collaboration Meeting

from Monday, February 20, 2012 (9:00 AM) to Wednesday, February 22, 2012 (7:00 PM)
CERN (6/2-024)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Feb 20, 2012
Feb 21, 2012
Feb 22, 2012
AM
9:00 AM
Opening Session -Dr Maxim TITOV (CEA Saclay) Leszek Ropelewski (CERN) (until 1:00 PM)
9:00 AM Collaboration News - maxim titov Leszek Ropelewski (CERN)  
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9:30 AM MPGD Industrial Event at LAPP on April 26/27 - Catherine Juliette Adloff (Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et des Particules (IN2P3))  
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9:45 AM Summary of the RD51 Industrialization Efforts - Fabio Formenti (CERN)  
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10:15 AM --- Coffee Break ---
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))  
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11:05 AM A low mass microbulk with real XY strips - Theodoros Geralis (Nat. Cent. for Sci. Res. Demokritos (GR))  
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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)  
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11:50 AM RD51 Collaboration Meeting in Stony Brook on Oct. 1-4 - Klaus Dehmelt (Dept.of Physics and Space Sciences)  
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9:00 AM
WG1 - Technologies and New Structures - Paul Colas (CEA/Irfu) Serge Duarte Pinto (CERN) (until 1:00 PM)
9:00 AM GEMs for ALICE TPC upgrade - Chilo Garabatos Cuadrado (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))  
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9:20 AM GEM muon chambers for CMS upgrade - Archana Sharma (CERN)  
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9:40 AM Status of GEMs made in Korea - Laura Franconi (Universita e INFN (IT))  
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9:50 AM Status of no-stretch no-spacer GEM assembly - Andrey Marinov (Ghent University (BE)) Laura Franconi (Universita e INFN (IT))  
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10:00 AM The design and preliminary tests of microstrip-microgap RPC - Vladimir Peskov (Universidad Nacional Autonoma (MX))  
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10:20 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:40 AM Transparent neutron detectors for the nTOF experiment - Francesca Belloni  
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11:00 AM Piggy Back - Ioanis Giomataris (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR))  
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11:20 AM Development and tests of Micro pixel chamber with resistive cathode and capacitive readout - Dr Atsuhiko Ochi (Kobe University (JP))  
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11:40 AM Muon tomography using Micromegas - Mr Pierre Salin (College de France (FR))  
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9:00 AM
WG7 - Test Beam - Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR)) (until 10:00 AM)
9:00 AM WG7 status - prospects - Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR))  
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9:20 AM Track finding with the RD51 beam telescopes - Konstantinos Karakostas (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR))  
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10:00 AM
Special InGrid/Gridpix Meeting - Leszek Ropelewski (CERN) Dr Maxim TITOV (CEA Saclay) (until 1:00 PM)
10:00 AM Introduction to and experience with GridPix detectors - Frederik Hartjes (NIKHEF (NL))  
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10:20 AM news on production at IZM/Twente - Yevgen Bilevych (University of Bonn)  
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10:40 AM First test results on new structures from Bonn - Dr Jochen Kaminski (Universitaet Bonn (DE))  
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11:00 AM Measuring gas gain fluctuations with InGrid/TimePix - Paul Colas (CEA/Irfu)  
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11:20 AM First Results from Ceramic on Medipix2 - Dr David ATTIE (CEA/DSM/DAPNIA/SPP)  
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11:40 AM Application of GridPix in LC-TPC - Jan Timmermans  
12:00 PM Discussion: "InGrid" Technology and RD51 - Maxim Titov Harry van der Graaf  
PM
1:00 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM
WG5 - Electronics - Jochen Kaminski (Universität Bonn) Hans Muller (CERN) (until 7:00 PM)
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))  
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2:30 PM Progress with the T2DM2 project - Mr Pierre Salin (College de France (FR))  
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2:55 PM Clock and Trigger Generator and Fan-out for SRS - Givi Sekhniaidze (Universita e INFN (IT))  
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3:05 PM SRS Labview status - Givi Sekhniaidze (Universita e INFN (IT))  
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3:20 PM Status of SRS production by PRISMA Electronics (via EVO) - Petros Soukoulias (Prisma Electronics SA)  
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3:50 PM SRS overview: Users & Developers, Order status, CERN store - Hans Muller (CERN)  
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4:05 PM --- Break ---
4:15 PM SRS News: Zero supression, SRU Rev2, VFAT and Beetle hybrids, DTC links - Sorin Martoiu (CERN)  
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4:40 PM Update on ATLAS Micromegas experience with the SRS - Marcin Z Drozdowa Byszewski (CERN)  
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5:00 PM SRTCS , a Labview based test system for SRS electronics - Volkan Gezer (Eskisehir Osmangazi University (TR))  
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5:20 PM RCDAQ , a lightweight and powerful DAQ system for small test systems - Dr Martin Purschke (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)  
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5:50 PM Scalable Readout System in an AdvancedTCA - Wojciech Jalmuzna (EICSYS GmbH)  
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6:10 PM Scalability from MTCA to ATCA - Friedrich Fix (Elma elctronics GmbH)  
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6:30 PM Status SRS Timepix readout - Jochen Kaminski (University of Bonn)  
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6:40 PM ALICE EMCaL readout via SRU - Terry Awes (Oak Ridge National Laboratory - (US))  
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7:00 PM
RD51 Collaboration Board - Silvia Dalla Torre (Universita e INFN (IT)) (until 8:00 PM)
1:00 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM
WG2 - Caracterisation and Physics issues - Harry Van Der Graaf (NIKHEF (NL)) Maximilien Chefdeville (LAPP, Annecy) (until 5:00 PM)
2:00 PM Performance of a Micromegas telescope - Jonathan Frederik Bortfeldt (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen (DE))  
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2:20 PM TCPD, a ThickGEM+WireChamber Combination for Cherenkov Photon Detection - Gergoe Hamar (Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HU))  
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2:40 PM High Resolution Scan of ThickGEM for Single Photo-electron Detection - Gergoe Hamar (Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HU))  
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3:00 PM In-beam results of a potential THGEM element for DHCAL using a general analog readout - Carlos Azevedo (University of Aveiro)  
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3:20 PM GridPix detector in Dual Phase noble gas TPCs - Matteo Alfonsi (CERN)  
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3:40 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM A novel liquid-xenon detector concept for combined Fast-Neutron and Gamma Imaging and Spectroscopy - amos breskin (weizmann institute)  
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4:20 PM Micromegas Operation at high pressure in Xe-Trimetilamine mixture - Diana Carolina Herrera (University of Zaragoza)  
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4:40 PM Summary of collaboration board meeting - Silvia Dalla Torre (Universita e INFN (IT))  
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7:30 PM
Collaboration Dinner - Leszek Ropelewski (CERN) (until 11:30 PM) (Auberge à la ferme de Bajole)
1:00 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM
WG4 - Simulations and Software Tools - Rob Veenhof (University of Wisconsin (US)) Carlos Alberto Bastos De Oliveira (University of Aveiro (PT)) (until 7:00 PM)
2:00 PM Gain studies in pure CF4 and CF4 mixtures - Tania Moulik  
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2:30 PM GEM gain and conductivity - Mythra Nemallapudi  
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3:00 PM Basics of Polyimide - Yalçın Kalkan (Uludag university, Bursa, Turkey)  
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3:30 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM Gas gain in a single GEM: Charging-up effect for electrons and ions - Correia, Pedro  
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4:30 PM Photon feed-back in gas mixtures - Özkan Şahin (Uludag university, Bursa, Turkey)  
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