Name: RD51 mini week
Start: 2012-12-03T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2012-12-05T20:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

RD51 mini week

from Monday, December 3, 2012 (9:00 AM) to Wednesday, December 5, 2012 (8:00 PM)

Monday, December 3, 2012
10:30 AM Opening session
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: 216/R-401 - Salle polyvalente PUMP HALL
Contributions

10:30 AM RD51 Collaboration news - Leszek Ropelewski (CERN) Maksym Titov (Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives) Maxim TITOV (CEA Saclay) maxim titov

11:00 AM A novel Silicon device incorporating MicroMegas technology for picosecond Charged particle measurement at high rates - Sebastian White (Rockefeller University (US))
2:00 PM WG5 - Electronics
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 216/R-401 - Salle polyvalente PUMP HALL
Contributions

2:00 PM MMDAQ Online, Questions and Answers - Marcin Z Drozdowa Byszewski (CERN)

2:30 PM Consolidation of the TOTEM DAQ with the Scalable Readout System (SRS) - Adrian Fiergolski (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))

3:00 PM Status of the Scalable Readout Unit (SRU) - Alfonso Tarazona Martinez (Valencia Polytechnic University (ES))

3:20 PM R&D on detector electronics at INFIN-HH Bucharest - Sorin Martoiu (Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Enginee)

3:45 PM THGEM/SRS test-beam operation & analysis tools - Shikma Bressler (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))

4:30 PM SRS-ATCA design status - Wojciech Jalmuzna (EICSYS GmbH)

5:00 PM Status of SRS in 2012 - Hans Muller (CERN)
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
9:00 AM WG1 - Technologies
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: 216/R-401 - Salle polyvalente PUMP HALL
Contributions

9:00 AM High rate improvements of resistive bulk micromegas - Silvia Franchino (CERN)

9:20 AM Resistive layers, patterns and coatings: a write-up of our collective experience - Paul Colas (CEA/Irfu) Paul Colas (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR)) Serge Duarte Pinto (CERN)

9:40 AM Results from the first ALICE TPC prototype - Piotr Jan Gasik (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE))

10:00 AM R&D and IBF simulations for the ALICE TPC upgrade - Taku Gunji

10:20 AM TOFtracker: combination of time-of-flight and high-accuracy bidimensional tracking in a single gaseous detector - Paulo Fonte

11:00 AM Update from CMS GEMs - Stefano Colafranceschi (CERN)

11:20 AM Photon detection by THGEM, recent results - Stefano Levorato (Universita e INFN (IT))

11:40 AM Micromegas bulking of a thin and high-pitch mesh - Paul Colas (CEA/Irfu) Paul Colas (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR)) Rui De Oliveira (CERN) Vincenzo Berardi (Universita e INFN (IT))

12:00 PM Micromegas TPC with 6 modules - Wenxin WANG (CEA Saclay)
1:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: 216/R-401 - Salle polyvalente PUMP HALL
2:00 PM WG2 - Physics issues
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 216/R-401 - Salle polyvalente PUMP HALL
Contributions

2:00 PM A quantum efficiency enhancement of CsI-TGEM/RETGEM -based RICH prototype - Vladimir Peskov (Universidad Nacional Autonoma (MX))

2:20 PM Updates on the double phase Ar LEM-TPC - Devis Orlando Lussi (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

2:40 PM Pion calorimetry with 1x1 m2 Micromegas chambers - Maximilien Chefdeville (LAPP, Annecy)

3:00 PM First results on the combination of a THGEM and a MICROROC readout - Maximilien Chefdeville (LAPP, Annecy)

3:40 PM Recent Ingrid Studies and DESY Test-Beam Results with Octopuce - Andrii Chaus (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR))

4:00 PM Low Background Micromegas X-ray Detectors in CAST Experiment - Javier Gracia Garza (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES)) javier gracia

4:20 PM Latest large GEM test beam results - Christopher Armaingaud (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (FR))
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
9:00 AM WG7 - Test beam
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 216/R-401 - Salle polyvalente PUMP HALL
Contributions

10:00 AM GIF++ - Dorothea Pfeiffer (University of Canterbury (NZ)) Federico Ravotti (CERN) Roberto Guida (CERN)

10:40 AM WG7 Report - Eraldo Oliveri (Sezione di Pisa (IT)) Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR))
11:00 AM WG6 - Production
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: 216/R-401 - Salle polyvalente PUMP HALL
Contributions

11:00 AM - NS2 detailed assembly - Rui De Oliveira (CERN)

11:20 AM - Status of the Micromegas industrialization activity with CIREA - Alan Peyaud (Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives)

11:40 AM - Status of the Micromegas industrialization activity with ELTOS - Giovanni Maccarrone (Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare (IT))

12:00 PM - Status of the GEM production facility upgrade at Techtra's - Piotr Bielowka (TTA Techtra)
1:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: 216/R-401 - Salle polyvalente PUMP HALL
2:00 PM WG4 - Software
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 216/R-401 - Salle polyvalente PUMP HALL
Contributions

2:00 PM How to simulate thick GEM charging - Pedro Correia

2:30 PM Pad response functions - Alain Bellerive (Carleton University (CA))

3:00 PM X-ray cloud sizes + Fano factors - Stephen Biagi (CERN)

3:15 PM Bursa gas laboratory - Ozkan Sahin (Uludag University)

3:30 PM Krakow gas gain measurements - Bartosz Mindur (AGH University of Science and Technology (PL))

4:15 PM Waveform fitting in freons - Jingbo Wang (Tsinghua University)

4:45 PM Update on the electronic vD and σL in Xe and Xe+CF4: NEXT-DBDM prototype results - Carlos Alberto Bastos De Oliveira (University of Aveiro (PT))