Name: 10th RD51 Collaboration Meeting
Start: 2012-09-30T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2012-10-05T12:00:00-04:00
Location: Stony Brook University

10th RD51 Collaboration Meeting

from Sunday 30 September 2012 (08:00) to Friday 5 October 2012 (12:00)

Monday 24 September 2012
Tuesday 25 September 2012
Wednesday 26 September 2012
Thursday 27 September 2012
Friday 28 September 2012
Saturday 29 September 2012
Sunday 30 September 2012

14:00

14:00 - 17:00
Room: Wang 201

Monday 1 October 2012
09:00
09:00 - 12:00
Room: Wang Lecture Hall 2
Contributions

09:00 Opening and Welcome - Klaus Dehmelt (Stony Brook University USA) Maxim TITOV (CEA Saclay)

09:10 RD51 Collaboration News - Leszek Ropelewski (CERN) Maxim TITOV (CEA Saclay)

09:40 Development of innovative resistive GEM alpha detectors for earthquakes - Vladimir Peskov (Universidad Nacional Autonoma (MX))

09:50 A low mass microbulk with real XY strips - Theodoros Geralis (Nat. Cent. for Sci. Res. Demokritos (GR))

10:00 Thin and high-pitch laser-etched mesh manufacturing and bulking - Paul Colas (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR))

10:10 MPGDs technology laboratory for training, development, fabrication, applications and innovations in Colombia - Rafael M Gutierrez (Universidad Antonio Nariño)

10:45 Recent developments with Gridpix - Jan Timmermans (NIKHEF (NL))

11:15 Detector Technologies in PHENIX at RHIC: Past Developments and Future Plans - Thomas Hemmick (S)
12:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 18:00
Room: Wang Lecture Hall 2
Contributions

14:00 Update on GEM DHCal - Andrew White (University of Texas at Arlington) Andrew White (University of Texas at Arlington (US))

14:20 GEM R&D for the JLab Hall A experiment - Kondo GNANVO (Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Fl, USA) Kondo Gnanvo (University of Virginia (US)) Nilanga Liyanage (University of Virginia)

14:40 Construction of the STAR forward GEM tracker - Ross Corliss (M.I.T.)

15:00 GEM-based muon tomography of shielded high-Z materials - Marcus Hohlmann (Florida Institute of Technology (US))

15:50 Update on GEMs for CMS high-eta - Archana Sharma (CERN) Marcus Hohlmann (Florida Institute of Technology (US))

16:10 Micromegas for the ATLAS upgrade: status and plans - Joerg Wotschack (CERN)

16:30 GEM based beam monitor developments in Korea - sung park (Korea University)

16:50 THGEM based fast neutron detector for fan-beam tomography - Marco Cortesi (Weizmann Institute of Science)
18:00

18:00 - 19:30
Room: Wang Lecture Hall 2
Tuesday 2 October 2012
09:00
09:00 - 13:00
Room: Wang Lecture Hall 2
Contributions

09:00 Welcome - Eraldo Oliveri (Sezione di Pisa (IT)) Hans Taureg (University of Wisconsin (US))

09:05 New features of APV-SRS-Labview - Eraldo Oliveri (Sezione di Pisa (IT)) Riccardo De Asmundis (Universita e INFN (IT))

09:25 Integration of SRU in ATLAS Micromega readout (via EVO) - Andre Zibell (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen (DE))

09:45 Running the Micromega SRS readout in ATLAS (via EVO) - Marcin Z Drozdowa Byszewski (CERN)

10:05 Brief summary on experience with SRS and MPD - Kondo Gnanvo (University of Virginia (US))

10:25 SRS overview and outlook (via EVO) - Hans Muller (CERN)

11:00 News on the VMM1 ASIC - Gianluigi De Geronimo (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

11:30 BGA packaging of APV-25 Chip - Ben Buck (MIT)

11:45 2D-Readout Board Designs for GEM Detectors - Jason Bessuille (MIT)

12:00 Update on the BNL SRS readout and analysis system - Martin Lothar Purschke (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) Martin Purschke (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)
13:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 15:30
Room: Wang Lecture Hall 2
Contributions

14:30 rd51 mm tracker & SRS/APV readout using mmDAQ/Recomm (via EVO) - Athanasios Stamatopoulos (National Technical University of Athens, School of Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences)

14:50 Test beam, laboratory and CERN facilities - Eraldo Oliveri (Sezione di Pisa (IT)) Lari Mikael Koponen (H) Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR))
15:30
15:30 - 17:50
Room: Wang Lecture Hall 2
Contributions

15:30 Large MPGD developments at CERN workshop: 0.5m2 CMS NS2 GEM and 1m2 Atlas Resistive Micromegas - Rui De Oliveira (CERN)

15:50 GEM industrialization plans with Korea CMS - Hyunsoo Kim (Chonbuk National University (KR)) Yoo Minsang

16:10 Lessons from first large GEM prototype structures for CMS - Archana Sharma (CERN)

16:30 Status report tests 10x10 resistive Bulks from Cirea/Elvia - Fabien Jeanneau (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR))

16:50 Status report tests 10x10 resistive Bulks from Eltos - Maria Hoffmann (University of Copenhagen (DK))

17:10 Status of GEM manufacture facility upgrade at Techtra - Piotr Bielowka (TTA Techtra)

17:30 Piggy Back Micromega Technology: New Results for Sealed Detectors - Ioanis Giomataris (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR))
18:00

18:00 - 20:30
Wednesday 3 October 2012

08:00

08:00 - 22:00
Room: LIRR NYC
Thursday 4 October 2012
09:00
09:00 - 13:00
Room: Wang Lecture Hall 2
Contributions

09:00 Developments and tests of Micro Pixel Chamber with Resistive Cathode - Atsuhiko Ochi (Kobe University (JP))

09:20 ACTAR-TPC: a new active target time projection chamber for radioactive beam experiments - Daisuke Suzuki (CNRS/IN2P3/IPNO)

09:40 Micromegas performance in magnetic field and in TPC mode - Theodoros Alexopoulos (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR))

10:00 Aging test with resistive Micromegas - Fabien Jeanneau (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR))

10:20 Photon detection at WIS: Cryo-GPM & avalanche optical imaging - Lior Arazi (Weizmann Institute of Science)

11:00 Micromegas for COMPASS, project and industrialisation - Damien Neyret (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR))

11:20 Performance of large pixelized Micromegas detectors in the COMPASS environment - Damien Neyret (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR)) Florian Thibault (CEA/IRFU)

11:40 R&D Activities with GEM Trackers for Nuclear Physics and Medical Imaging at BNL - Bob Azmoun (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

12:00 Rare event searches with Xe-TMA TPCs - Diego Gonzalez-Diaz (Zaragoza University)
13:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 18:30
Room: Wang Lecture Hall 2
Contributions

14:00 Simulation study of ion back flow for the ALICE-TPC upgrade - Taku Gunji (University of Tokyo (JP))

14:30 C2H2F4, measurements and calculations - Ye Jingbo (Tsinghua)

15:00 CF4, measurements and calculations - Ozkan Sahin (Uludag University)

15:15 Bursa gas detector laboratory, status - Ozkan Sahin (Uludag University)

15:30 Measurements of drift velocity and longitudinal diffusion of Xe+CF4 with the NEXTDMDB TPC prototype at LBNL - Carlos Alberto Bastos De Oliveira (University of Aveiro (PT))

16:30 Solid modelling in neBEM - Supratik Mukhopadhyay (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (IN))

17:00 MHSP, MSGC and GEM - Purba Bhattacharya (Saha institute, Kolkata, India)

17:30 GEM charging up calculations - Pedro Correia Rob Veenhof (University of Wisconsin (US))

18:00 Thick GEM photon detection efficiency - Ramón Heberto Martínez Mayorquin
Friday 5 October 2012
09:00
09:00 - 12:00
Room: Wang 201
Contributions

09:00 Lecture on Gaseous Detectors for Science & Discussion - Graham Smith (BNL)

10:30 Lecture on Microelectronics for Science & Discussion - Gianluigi De Geronimo (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))