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, 3 December 2012 (09:00) to Wednesday, 5 December 2012 (20:00)

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

10:30 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 A novel Silicon device incorporating MicroMegas technology for picosecond Charged particle measurement at high rates - Sebastian White (Rockefeller University (US))
14:00 WG5 - Electronics
14:00 - 18:00
Room: 216/R-401 - Salle polyvalente PUMP HALL
Contributions

14:00 MMDAQ Online, Questions and Answers - Marcin Z Drozdowa Byszewski (CERN)

14:30 Consolidation of the TOTEM DAQ with the Scalable Readout System (SRS) - Adrian Fiergolski (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))

15:00 Status of the Scalable Readout Unit (SRU) - Alfonso Tarazona Martinez (Valencia Polytechnic University (ES))

15:20 R&D on detector electronics at INFIN-HH Bucharest - Sorin Martoiu (Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Enginee)

15:45 THGEM/SRS test-beam operation & analysis tools - Shikma Bressler (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))

16:30 SRS-ATCA design status - Wojciech Jalmuzna (EICSYS GmbH)

17:00 Status of SRS in 2012 - Hans Muller (CERN)
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
09:00 WG1 - Technologies
09:00 - 13:00
Room: 216/R-401 - Salle polyvalente PUMP HALL
Contributions

09:00 High rate improvements of resistive bulk micromegas - Silvia Franchino (CERN)

09:20 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)

09:40 Results from the first ALICE TPC prototype - Piotr Jan Gasik (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE))

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

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

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

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

11:40 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 Micromegas TPC with 6 modules - Wenxin WANG (CEA Saclay)
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00
Room: 216/R-401 - Salle polyvalente PUMP HALL
14:00 WG2 - Physics issues
14:00 - 18:00
Room: 216/R-401 - Salle polyvalente PUMP HALL
Contributions

14:00 A quantum efficiency enhancement of CsI-TGEM/RETGEM -based RICH prototype - Vladimir Peskov (Universidad Nacional Autonoma (MX))

14:20 Updates on the double phase Ar LEM-TPC - Devis Orlando Lussi (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

14:40 Pion calorimetry with 1x1 m2 Micromegas chambers - Maximilien Chefdeville (LAPP, Annecy)

15:00 First results on the combination of a THGEM and a MICROROC readout - Maximilien Chefdeville (LAPP, Annecy)

15:40 Recent Ingrid Studies and DESY Test-Beam Results with Octopuce - Andrii Chaus (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR))

16:00 Low Background Micromegas X-ray Detectors in CAST Experiment - Javier Gracia Garza (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES)) javier gracia

16:20 Latest large GEM test beam results - Christopher Armaingaud (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (FR))
Wednesday, 5 December 2012
09:00 WG7 - Test beam
09:00 - 11:00
Room: 216/R-401 - Salle polyvalente PUMP HALL
Contributions

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

10:40 WG7 Report - Eraldo Oliveri (Sezione di Pisa (IT)) Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR))
11:00 WG6 - Production
11:00 - 13:00
Room: 216/R-401 - Salle polyvalente PUMP HALL
Contributions

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

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

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

12:00 - Status of the GEM production facility upgrade at Techtra's - Piotr Bielowka (TTA Techtra)
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00
Room: 216/R-401 - Salle polyvalente PUMP HALL
14:00 WG4 - Software
14:00 - 18:00
Room: 216/R-401 - Salle polyvalente PUMP HALL
Contributions

14:00 How to simulate thick GEM charging - Pedro Correia

14:30 Pad response functions - Alain Bellerive (Carleton University (CA))

15:00 X-ray cloud sizes + Fano factors - Stephen Biagi (CERN)

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

15:30 Krakow gas gain measurements - Bartosz Mindur (AGH University of Science and Technology (PL))

16:15 Waveform fitting in freons - Jingbo Wang (Tsinghua University)

16:45 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))