RD51 mini week

from Monday, December 3, 2012 (9:00 AM) to Wednesday, December 5, 2012 (8:00 PM)
CERN (216/R-401)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Dec 3, 2012
Dec 4, 2012
Dec 5, 2012
AM
10:30 AM
Opening session -Dr Maxim TITOV (CEA Saclay) Dr Maksym Titov (Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives) Leszek Ropelewski (CERN) maxim titov (until 12:00 PM)
10:30 AM RD51 Collaboration news - Leszek Ropelewski (CERN) Dr Maksym Titov (Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives) maxim titov Dr Maxim TITOV (CEA Saclay)  
11:00 AM A novel Silicon device incorporating MicroMegas technology for picosecond Charged particle measurement at high rates - Prof. Sebastian White (Rockefeller University (US))  
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9:00 AM
WG1 - Technologies - Serge Duarte Pinto (CERN) Paul Colas (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR)) Paul Colas (CEA/Irfu) (until 1:00 PM)
9:00 AM High rate improvements of resistive bulk micromegas - Silvia Franchino (CERN)  
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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)  
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9:40 AM Results from the first ALICE TPC prototype - Piotr Jan Gasik (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE))  
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10:00 AM R&D and IBF simulations for the ALICE TPC upgrade - Taku Gunji  
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10:20 AM TOFtracker: combination of time-of-flight and high-accuracy bidimensional tracking in a single gaseous detector - Paulo Fonte  
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10:40 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM Update from CMS GEMs - Dr Stefano Colafranceschi (CERN)  
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11:20 AM Photon detection by THGEM, recent results - Stefano Levorato (Universita e INFN (IT))  
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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))  
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12:00 PM Micromegas TPC with 6 modules - Wenxin WANG (CEA Saclay)  
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9:00 AM
WG7 - Test beam - Eraldo Oliveri (Sezione di Pisa (IT)) Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR)) (until 11:00 AM)
10:00 AM GIF++ - Roberto Guida (CERN) Dr Federico Ravotti (CERN) Dorothea Pfeiffer (University of Canterbury (NZ))  
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10:40 AM WG7 Report - Eraldo Oliveri (Sezione di Pisa (IT)) Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR))  
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11:00 AM
WG6 - Production - Fabio Formenti (CERN) Ioanis Giomataris (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR)) Rui De Oliveira (CERN) (until 1:00 PM)
11:00 AM - NS2 detailed assembly - Rui De Oliveira (CERN)  
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11:20 AM - Status of the Micromegas industrialization activity with CIREA - Dr Alan Peyaud (Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives)  
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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)  
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PM
2:00 PM
WG5 - Electronics - Jochen Kaminski (Universitaet Bonn (DE)) Hans Muller (CERN) (until 6:00 PM)
2:00 PM MMDAQ Online, Questions and Answers - Marcin Z Drozdowa Byszewski (CERN)  
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2:30 PM Consolidation of the TOTEM DAQ with the Scalable Readout System (SRS) - Adrian Fiergolski (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))  
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3:00 PM Status of the Scalable Readout Unit (SRU) - Alfonso Tarazona Martinez (Valencia Polytechnic University (ES))  
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3:20 PM R&D on detector electronics at INFIN-HH Bucharest - Sorin Martoiu (Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Enginee)  
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3:45 PM THGEM/SRS test-beam operation & analysis tools - Shikma Bressler (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))  
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4:10 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:30 PM SRS-ATCA design status - Wojciech Jalmuzna (EICSYS GmbH)  
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5:00 PM Status of SRS in 2012 - Hans Muller (CERN)  
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1:00 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM
WG2 - Physics issues - Harry Van Der Graaf (NIKHEF (NL)) Maximilien Chefdeville (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) (until 6:00 PM)
2:00 PM A quantum efficiency enhancement of CsI-TGEM/RETGEM -based RICH prototype - Vladimir Peskov (Universidad Nacional Autonoma (MX))  
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2:20 PM Updates on the double phase Ar LEM-TPC - Devis Orlando Lussi (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))  
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2:40 PM Pion calorimetry with 1x1 m2 Micromegas chambers - Maximilien Chefdeville (LAPP, Annecy)  
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3:00 PM First results on the combination of a THGEM and a MICROROC readout - Maximilien Chefdeville (LAPP, Annecy)  
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3:20 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:40 PM Recent Ingrid Studies and DESY Test-Beam Results with Octopuce - Andrii Chaus (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR))  
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4:00 PM Low Background Micromegas X-ray Detectors in CAST Experiment - Javier Gracia Garza (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES)) javier gracia  
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4:20 PM Latest large GEM test beam results - Christopher Armaingaud (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (FR))  
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1:00 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM
WG4 - Software - Rob Veenhof (University of Wisconsin (US)) Rob Veenhof (University of Wisconsin) Carlos Alberto Bastos De Oliveira (University of Aveiro (PT)) (until 6:00 PM)
2:00 PM How to simulate thick GEM charging - Pedro Correia  
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2:30 PM Pad response functions - Alain Bellerive (Carleton University (CA))  
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3:00 PM X-ray cloud sizes + Fano factors - Stephen Biagi (CERN)  
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3:15 PM Bursa gas laboratory - Ozkan Sahin (Uludag University)  
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3:30 PM Krakow gas gain measurements - Bartosz Mindur (AGH University of Science and Technology (PL))  
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3:45 PM --- Coffee ---
4:15 PM Waveform fitting in freons - Jingbo Wang (Tsinghua University)  
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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))  
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