Name: Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors (RD51) Workshop
Start: 2008-04-16T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2008-04-18T18:20:00+02:00
Location: NIKHEF, Amsterdam

Monday 14 April 2008
Tuesday 15 April 2008
Wednesday 16 April 2008
09:00
09:00 - 09:10
Contributions

09:00 Welcome and Opening - Frank Linde (Nikhef) Leszek Ropelewski (CERN)
09:10
09:10 - 09:20
Contributions

09:10 Tribute to Vincent Lepeltier - Paul Colas (DAPNIA)
09:20
09:20 - 10:30
Contributions

09:20 Gaseous Detectors 1908-2008: one century of success and disappointments - Fabio Sauli (CERN)

09:50 Results from InGrid/TimePix detectors - Lucie De Nooij (Nikhef)

10:10 Recent advances in THGEM detectors - Amos Breskin (Weizmann Institute)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 10:50
10:50
10:50 - 12:40
Contributions

10:50 Micromegas - Ioanis Giomataris (Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA-Saclay))

11:20 Large GEM detectors development - Serge Duarte Pinto (CERN)

11:40 Latest achievements in developments of large-area screen printed resistive GEMs - Vladimir Peskov (CERN)

12:00 Ion back flow reduction in GEM-like cascades operating in HpXe - Joao F.C.A. Veloso (University of Coimbra)

12:20 Efficient ion blocking in patterned hole-multipliers and its application to visible-sensitive gas-avalanche photomultipliers - Amos Breskin (Weizmann Institute)
12:40 Lunch
Lunch
12:40 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:50
Contributions

14:00 Radiation detectors made by post-processing standard CMOS: a technologist's perspective - Jurriaan Schmitz (University of Twente/MESA+)

14:30 InGrid: the integration of a grid onto a pixel anode by means of Wafer Post Processing technology - Victor Blanco Carballo (University of Twente/MESA+)

14:50 Track properties recorded by a GEM TimePix - Andreas Bamberger (Albert-Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg)

15:10 First results from a prototype TPC with GEM and TimePix at Bonn - Jochen Kaminski (Universität Bonn)

15:30 PIM: a multi-stage device using micromeshes for tracking particles - Jerome Beucher (SUBATECH/CEA/IRFU/SPP)
15:50 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:50 - 16:20
16:20
16:20 - 18:20
Contributions

16:20 TimePix-2: a new and fast general purpose MPGD readout pixel chip - Jan Timmermans (Nikhef)

16:40 Gossipo-2: testing new concept for TDC-per-pixel - Vladimir Gromov (Nikhef)

17:00 Status of the Medipix3 development and possible input for Timepix2 - Michael Campbell

17:20 The protection of CMOS pixel chips against discharges in MPGDs - Martin Fransen (Nikhef)

17:40 VFAT and portable readout - Paul Aspell (CERN)

18:00 General discussion
Thursday 17 April 2008
09:00
09:00 - 09:40
Contributions

09:00 Irradiation facilities at CERN - Mar Capeans Garrido (CERN)

09:20 Gossip ageing study - Fred Hartjes (Nikhef)
09:40
09:40 - 10:30
Contributions

09:40 GEM development with Tech-Etch for future detector applications - Frank Simon (MPI for Physics, Munich)

10:00 Techtra [Wroclaw Technology Park] - Chorowski Maciej (Wroclaw University of Technology)

10:10 PANalytical - Klaus Bethke (PANalytical)
10:30 coffee break
coffee break
10:30 - 10:50
10:50
10:50 - 12:50
Contributions

10:50 Microscopic tracking - Rob Veenhof (IST/CFIF)

11:10 Energy resolution and ion backflow in InGrid - Maximilien Chefdeville (Nikhef/Saclay)

11:30 Charge distribution, signal development - Paul Colas (Saclay/DAPNIA)

11:50 Field solver and its possible application in the simulation of MPGDs - Supratik Mukhopadhyay (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)

12:10 Penning effect on gas amplification factor - Ozkan Sahin (Uludag University)

12:30 Geant-4 simulation of gas detectors - Alain Bellerive (Carleton University)
12:50 Lunch
Lunch
12:50 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Convenors report - Leszek Ropelewski (CERN)

14:20 Proposal presentation - Maxim TITOV (Freiburg University)

14:50 MoU presentation - Hans Taureg (CERN, Geneva)

15:10 Technology transfer - Bernard Denis (CERN)
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 18:30
Contributions

16:00 Formation of Collaboration (list of Institutes, Collaboration Board, CB chairperson)

16:30 Spokesman election

17:00 Working groups and coordinators

17:30 Steering Committee

17:40 Publication policy

17:50 Common fund

18:00 Intellectual property and relations with industry
20:00 conference dinner
conference dinner
20:00 - 23:00
Friday 18 April 2008
09:00
09:00 - 10:50
Contributions

09:00 MPGD-based photon detectors for Cherenkov imaging counters - Fulvio Tessarotto (INFN Trieste)

09:20 Micromegas for rare events searches - Igor Garcia Irastorza (DAPNIA)

09:40 Gas Pixel transition radiation tracker - Anatoli Romaniouk (Moscow Physical Engineering Institute (MePhl))

10:00 Micromegas for ATLAS upgrade - Paolo Iengo (CERN)

10:20 GEM detectors for digital hadron calorimetry - Andrew White (University of Texas at Arlington)

10:40 GEMs for tracking in JLab - Evaristo Cisbani (INFN Rome Gruppo Sanità)
10:50 coffee break
coffee break
10:50 - 11:20
11:20
11:20 - 13:00
Contributions

11:20 Thin layer Amorphous Silicon technology - Nicolas Wyrsch (IMT/University of Neuchatel)

11:40 TPC prototype for ILC - Klaus Dehmelt (DESY)

12:00 R&D of gating GEM - Akira Sugiyama (Universtity of Saga)

12:20 Resistive anode readout - Stephen Turnbull (Saclay)

12:40 Scintillation readout from micropatterned electron multipliers for dual-phase dark matter detectors - Joaquim dos Santos (University of Coimbra)
13:00 lunch
lunch
13:00 - 13:30