10th RD51 Collaboration Meeting

from Sunday, 30 September 2012 (08:00) to Friday, 5 October 2012 (12:00)
Stony Brook University

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
30 Sept 2012
1 Oct 2012
2 Oct 2012
3 Oct 2012
4 Oct 2012
5 Oct 2012
AM
09:00
Opening Plenary - Leszek Ropelewski (CERN) Dr Maxim TITOV (CEA Saclay) (until 12:00) (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
09:00 Opening and Welcome - Dr Maxim TITOV (CEA Saclay) Klaus Dehmelt (Stony Brook University USA)   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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09:10 RD51 Collaboration News - Dr Maxim TITOV (CEA Saclay) Leszek Ropelewski (CERN)   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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09:40 Development of innovative resistive GEM alpha detectors for earthquakes - Vladimir Peskov (Universidad Nacional Autonoma (MX))   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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09:50 A low mass microbulk with real XY strips - Theodoros Geralis (Nat. Cent. for Sci. Res. Demokritos (GR))   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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10:00 Thin and high-pitch laser-etched mesh manufacturing and bulking - Paul Colas (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR))   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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10:10 MPGDs technology laboratory for training, development, fabrication, applications and innovations in Colombia - Rafael M Gutierrez (Universidad Antonio Nariño)   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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10:20 --- Break ---
10:45 Recent developments with Gridpix - Jan Timmermans (NIKHEF (NL))   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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11:15 Detector Technologies in PHENIX at RHIC: Past Developments and Future Plans - Prof. Thomas Hemmick (S)   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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09:00
WG5 - Electronics - Jochen Kaminski (Universität Bonn) Hans Muller (CERN) (until 13:00) (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
09:00 Welcome - Hans Taureg (University of Wisconsin (US)) Eraldo Oliveri (Sezione di Pisa (IT))   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
09:05 New features of APV-SRS-Labview - Eraldo Oliveri (Sezione di Pisa (IT)) Riccardo De Asmundis (Universita e INFN (IT))   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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09:25 Integration of SRU in ATLAS Micromega readout (via EVO) - Andre Zibell (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen (DE))   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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09:45 Running the Micromega SRS readout in ATLAS (via EVO) - Marcin Z Drozdowa Byszewski (CERN)   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
10:05 Brief summary on experience with SRS and MPD - Kondo Gnanvo (University of Virginia (US))   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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10:25 SRS overview and outlook (via EVO) - Hans Muller (CERN)   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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10:45 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 News on the VMM1 ASIC - Gianluigi De Geronimo (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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11:30 BGA packaging of APV-25 Chip - Ben Buck (MIT)   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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11:45 2D-Readout Board Designs for GEM Detectors - Jason Bessuille (MIT)   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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12:00 Update on the BNL SRS readout and analysis system - Martin Lothar Purschke (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) Dr Martin Purschke (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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08:00
Excursion - Klaus Dehmelt (Stony Brook University USA) (until 22:00) (LIRR NYC)
09:00
WG2 - Physics issues - Harry Van Der Graaf (NIKHEF (NL)) Maximilien Chefdeville (LAPP, Annecy) (until 13:00) (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
09:00 Developments and tests of Micro Pixel Chamber with Resistive Cathode - Dr Atsuhiko Ochi (Kobe University (JP))   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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09:20 ACTAR-TPC: a new active target time projection chamber for radioactive beam experiments - Dr Daisuke Suzuki (CNRS/IN2P3/IPNO)   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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09:40 Micromegas performance in magnetic field and in TPC mode - Theodoros Alexopoulos (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR))   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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10:00 Aging test with resistive Micromegas - Fabien Jeanneau (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR))   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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10:20 Photon detection at WIS: Cryo-GPM & avalanche optical imaging - Lior Arazi (Weizmann Institute of Science)   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 Micromegas for COMPASS, project and industrialisation - Damien Neyret (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR))   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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11:20 Performance of large pixelized Micromegas detectors in the COMPASS environment - Florian Thibault (CEA/IRFU) Damien Neyret (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR))   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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11:40 R&D Activities with GEM Trackers for Nuclear Physics and Medical Imaging at BNL - Bob Azmoun (Brookhaven National Laboratory)   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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12:00 Rare event searches with Xe-TMA TPCs - Dr Diego Gonzalez-Diaz (Zaragoza University)   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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09:00
Lecture Series - Klaus Dehmelt (Stony Brook University USA) (until 12:00) (Wang 201)
09:00 Lecture on Gaseous Detectors for Science & Discussion - Dr Graham Smith (BNL)   (Wang 201)
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10:10 --- Break ---
10:30 Lecture on Microelectronics for Science & Discussion - Gianluigi De Geronimo (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))   (Wang 201)
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PM
14:00
Pre-Meeting - Leszek Ropelewski (CERN) Dr Maxim TITOV (CEA Saclay) (until 17:00) (Wang 201)
12:00 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
WG1 - Technologies - Paul Colas (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR)) Serge Duarte Pinto (CERN) (until 18:00) (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
14:00 Update on GEM DHCal - Andrew White (University of Texas at Arlington) Andrew White (University of Texas at Arlington (US))   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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14:20 GEM R&D for the JLab Hall A experiment - Kondo Gnanvo (University of Virginia (US)) Kondo GNANVO (Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Fl, USA) Nilanga Liyanage (University of Virginia)   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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14:40 Construction of the STAR forward GEM tracker - Ross Corliss (M.I.T.)   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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15:00 GEM-based muon tomography of shielded high-Z materials - Marcus Hohlmann (Florida Institute of Technology (US))   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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15:20 --- Coffee break ---
15:50 Update on GEMs for CMS high-eta - Archana Sharma (CERN) Marcus Hohlmann (Florida Institute of Technology (US))   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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16:10 Micromegas for the ATLAS upgrade: status and plans - Joerg Wotschack (CERN)   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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16:30 GEM based beam monitor developments in Korea - sung park (Korea University)   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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16:50 THGEM based fast neutron detector for fan-beam tomography - Marco Cortesi (Weizmann Institute of Science)   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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18:00
Collaboration Board Meeting -Dr Maxim TITOV (CEA Saclay) Leszek Ropelewski (CERN) (until 19:30) (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
13:00 --- Lunch Break ---
14:30
WG7 - Test beam - Eraldo Oliveri (Sezione di Pisa (IT)) Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR)) (until 15:30) (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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)   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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14:50 Test beam, laboratory and CERN facilities - Eraldo Oliveri (Sezione di Pisa (IT)) Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR)) Lari Mikael Koponen (H)   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
15:30
WG6 - Production - Rui De Oliveira (CERN) Ioanis Giomataris (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR)) Fabio Formenti (CERN) (until 17:50) (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
15:30 Large MPGD developments at CERN workshop: 0.5m2 CMS NS2 GEM and 1m2 Atlas Resistive Micromegas - Rui De Oliveira (CERN)   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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15:50 GEM industrialization plans with Korea CMS - Hyunsoo Kim (Chonbuk National University (KR)) Yoo Minsang   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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16:10 Lessons from first large GEM prototype structures for CMS - Archana Sharma (CERN)   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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16:30 Status report tests 10x10 resistive Bulks from Cirea/Elvia - Fabien Jeanneau (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR))   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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16:50 Status report tests 10x10 resistive Bulks from Eltos - Maria Hoffmann (University of Copenhagen (DK))   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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17:10 Status of GEM manufacture facility upgrade at Techtra - Piotr Bielowka (TTA Techtra)   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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17:30 Piggy Back Micromega Technology: New Results for Sealed Detectors - Ioanis Giomataris (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR))   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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18:00
Collaboration Dinner - Klaus Dehmelt (Stony Brook University USA) (until 20:30) ()
13:00 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
WG4 - Simulation - Carlos Alberto Bastos De Oliveira (University of Aveiro (PT)) Rob Veenhof (University of Wisconsin (US)) (until 18:30) (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
14:00 Simulation study of ion back flow for the ALICE-TPC upgrade - Taku Gunji (University of Tokyo (JP))   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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14:30 C2H2F4, measurements and calculations - Ye Jingbo (Tsinghua)   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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15:00 CF4, measurements and calculations - Ozkan Sahin (Uludag University)   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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15:15 Bursa gas detector laboratory, status - Ozkan Sahin (Uludag University)   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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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))   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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16:00 --- Coffee ---
16:30 Solid modelling in neBEM - Prof. Supratik Mukhopadhyay (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (IN))   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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17:00 MHSP, MSGC and GEM - Ms Purba Bhattacharya (Saha institute, Kolkata, India)   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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17:30 GEM charging up calculations - Pedro Correia Rob Veenhof (University of Wisconsin (US))   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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18:00 Thick GEM photon detection efficiency - Ramón Heberto Martínez Mayorquin   (Wang Lecture Hall 2)
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