Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors (RD51) Workshop

16 Apr 2008, 09:00 → 18 Apr 2008, 18:20 Europe/Zurich

NIKHEF, Amsterdam

Dear Colleague, It is our pleasure to announce on behalf of Harry van der Graaf and Jan Timmermans, that NIKHEF will host the Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors (MPGD) Workshop, including the first RD51 Collaboration Meeting, on 16th-18th of April 2008. RD51 has been initiated at CERN in 2007 to develop micro-pattern gas detectors. It will be 100 years since Geiger invented the first wire chamber, and the meeting will reflect on the history of gaseous detector technology, while looking forward to new frontiers with MPGD, new trackers, state-of-the-art technologies, and the benefits to be gained from Moore's Law. The meeting will have sessions on technology, micro-electronics, ageing, simulations, and common development (testbeams, standardisation, nomenclature, etc.). It will concentrate on the future and avoid status talks about current detectors. A further aim of the workshop is to set up the organization of the MPGD Collaboration (RD51). For more information please contact: Harry van der Graaf (vdgraaf@nikhef.nl) or Leszek Ropelewski (leszek.ropelewski@cern.ch).

Wednesday 16 April

09:00 → 09:10 Opening

09:00 Welcome and Opening

Speakers: Frank Linde (Nikhef), Leszek Ropelewski (CERN)

09:10 → 09:20 In Memoriam

09:10 Tribute to Vincent Lepeltier

Speaker: Paul Colas (DAPNIA)

Slides Vincent.pdf Vincent.ppt

09:20 → 10:30 New Technology I

Convener: Silvia DALLA TORRE (INFN Trieste)

09:20 Gaseous Detectors 1908-2008: one century of success and disappointments

Speaker: Fabio Sauli (CERN)

Slides Sauli_Amsterdam_mpgd.pdf Sauli_Amsterdam_mpgd.ppt

09:50 Results from InGrid/TimePix detectors

Speaker: Lucie De Nooij (Nikhef)

Slides RD51_LuciedeNooij.pdf RD51_LuciedeNooij.ppt

10:10 Recent advances in THGEM detectors

Speaker: Amos Breskin (Weizmann Institute)

Slides Breskin_THGEM_NIKHEF_Apr_08_.pdf Breskin_THGEM_NIKHEF_Apr_08_.ppt

10:30 → 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 → 12:40 New Technology II

Convener: Leszek ROPELEWSKI (CERN)

10:50 Micromegas

Speaker: Ioanis Giomataris (Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA-Saclay))

Slides RD51Giomataris.pdf RD51Giomataris.ppt

11:20 Large GEM detectors development

Speaker: Serge Duarte Pinto (CERN)

Slides SergeDuartePinto.pdf.pdf

11:40 Latest achievements in developments of large-area screen printed resistive GEMs

Speaker: Vladimir Peskov (CERN)

Slides Peskov.pdf Peskov.ppt

12:00 Ion back flow reduction in GEM-like cascades operating in HpXe

Speaker: Joao F.C.A. Veloso (University of Coimbra)

Slides RD51_NIkhef_joao_veloso1.pdf RD51_NIkhef_joao_veloso1.ppt

12:20 Efficient ion blocking in patterned hole-multipliers and its application to visible-sensitive gas-avalanche photomultipliers

Speaker: Amos Breskin (Weizmann Institute)

Slides Breskin_IBF_&_Vis_GPMs_Amsterdam_final.pdf Breskin_IBF_&_Vis_GPMs_Amsterdam_final.ppt

12:40 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:50 New Technology III

Convener: Paul Colas (CEA/IRFU DAPNIA Saclay)

14:00 Radiation detectors made by post-processing standard CMOS: a technologist's perspective

Speaker: Jurriaan Schmitz (University of Twente/MESA+)

Slides jurriaan.ppt.ppt

14:30 InGrid: the integration of a grid onto a pixel anode by means of Wafer Post Processing technology

Speaker: Victor Blanco Carballo (University of Twente/MESA+)

Slides RD51_talk_Victor.pdf RD51_talk_Victor.ppt

14:50 Track properties recorded by a GEM TimePix

Speaker: Prof. Andreas Bamberger (Albert-Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg)

Slides bamberger.pdf bamberger.ppt

15:10 First results from a prototype TPC with GEM and TimePix at Bonn

Speaker: Jochen Kaminski (Universität Bonn)

Slides kaminski.pdf

15:30 PIM: a multi-stage device using micromeshes for tracking particles

Speaker: Jerome Beucher (SUBATECH/CEA/IRFU/SPP)

Slides BEUCHER.pdf BEUCHER.ppt

15:50 → 16:20 Coffee break

16:20 → 18:20 Electronics

Convener: Werner Riegler (CERN)

16:20 TimePix-2: a new and fast general purpose MPGD readout pixel chip

Speaker: Jan Timmermans (Nikhef)

rotating-helix helix_colour.wmv

Slides timmermans-timepix-2.ppt.pdf timmermans-timepix-2.ppt.ppt

16:40 Gossipo-2: testing new concept for TDC-per-pixel

Speaker: Vladimir Gromov (Nikhef)

Slides GOSSIP-2_chip_TDC-per-pixel_architechture_17_04.pdf GOSSIP-2_chip_TDC-per-pixel_architechture_17_04.pptx

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

Speaker: Michael Campbell

Slides MPGD-AMS-MCampbell.pdf

17:20 The protection of CMOS pixel chips against discharges in MPGDs

Speaker: Martin Fransen (Nikhef)

Slides SiProt080407.pdf SiProt080407.ppt

17:40 VFAT and portable readout

Speaker: Paul Aspell (CERN)

Slides P_Aspell_Nikhef_Talk.pdf

18:00 General discussion

Thursday 17 April

09:00 → 09:40 Ageing and Radiation Hardness; Irradiation Fascilities

Convener: Kari KURVINEN (Helsinki Institute of Physics)

09:00 Irradiation facilities at CERN

Speaker: Mar Capeans Garrido (CERN)

Slides IrradFacilitiesRD51.pdf IrradFacilitiesRD51.ppt

09:20 Gossip ageing study

Speaker: Fred Hartjes (Nikhef)

Slides Gossip_ageing_RD51-08-1.pdf Gossip_ageing_RD51-08-1.ppt

09:40 → 10:30 Relations with Industry

Convener: Jan Visschers (Nikhef)

09:40 GEM development with Tech-Etch for future detector applications

Speaker: Dr Frank Simon (MPI for Physics, Munich)

Slides Frank_Simon.pdf

10:00 Techtra [Wroclaw Technology Park]

Speaker: Chorowski Maciej (Wroclaw University of Technology)

Slides techtra.pdf techtra.ppt

10:10 PANalytical

Speaker: Klaus Bethke (PANalytical)

Slides PANalytical_MPGD_Nikhef_April2008.pdf

10:30 → 10:50 coffee break

10:50 → 12:50 Data analysis, simulations and software

Convener: Alain BELLERIVE (Carleton University)

10:50 Microscopic tracking

Speaker: Rob Veenhof (IST/CFIF)

Slides nikhef.pdf

11:10 Energy resolution and ion backflow in InGrid

Speaker: Maximilien Chefdeville (Nikhef/Saclay)

Slides Chefdeville_RD51.pdf Chefdeville_RD51.ppt

11:30 Charge distribution, signal development

Speaker: Paul Colas (Saclay/DAPNIA)

Slides SiProtsimu.pdf SiProtsimu.ppt

11:50 Field solver and its possible application in the simulation of MPGDs

Speaker: Prof. Supratik Mukhopadhyay (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)

Slides

• FieldSolverBySM.pdf
• FieldSolverBySM.ppt
• FieldSolver.pdf
• FieldSolver.ppt
• FieldSolver.ppt.pdf

12:10 Penning effect on gas amplification factor

Speaker: Ozkan Sahin (Uludag University)

Slides MPGD_Sahin.pdf MPGD_Sahin.ppt

12:30 Geant-4 simulation of gas detectors

Speaker: Alain Bellerive (Carleton University)

Slides ABellerive_NIKHEF_April2008.pdf

12:50 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 RD-51 organization (open status reports presentations)

14:00 Convenors report

Speaker: Leszek Ropelewski (CERN)

Slides Conveners_Report.pdf Conveners_Report.ppt

14:20 Proposal presentation

Speaker: Dr Maxim TITOV (Freiburg University)

Slides RD51_proposal_17042008_final.pdf RD51_proposal_17042008_final.ppt

14:50 MoU presentation

Speaker: Hans Taureg (CERN, Geneva)

Slides MoU-presentation-NIKHEF.pdf MoU-presentation-NIKHEF.pptx

15:10 Technology transfer

Speaker: Bernard Denis (CERN)

Slides RD51-Nikhef_April08_-_B._Denis.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 18:30 RD-51 organization (closed discussion – Institute representatives)

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

Slides RD51_organization_closedSession.pdf

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 → 23:00 conference dinner

IJ-Kantine, Amsterdam. http://www.ijkantine.nl

Friday 18 April

09:00 → 10:50 MPGD applications I

Convener: Leszek ROPELEWSKI (CERN)

09:00 MPGD-based photon detectors for Cherenkov imaging counters

Speaker: Dr Fulvio Tessarotto (INFN Trieste)

Slides tessarotto_RD51.pdf tessarotto_RD51.ppt

09:20 Micromegas for rare events searches

Speaker: Igor Garcia Irastorza (DAPNIA)

Slides Irastorza_RD51_Amsterdam.pdf Irastorza_RD51_Amsterdam.ppt

09:40 Gas Pixel transition radiation tracker

Speaker: Anatoli Romaniouk (Moscow Physical Engineering Institute (MePhl))

Slides GasPixel_TRT.pdf GasPixel_TRT.ppt

10:00 Micromegas for ATLAS upgrade

Speaker: Paolo Iengo (CERN)

Slides RD51_PaoloIengo.pdf RD51_PaoloIengo.pptx

10:20 GEM detectors for digital hadron calorimetry

Speaker: Andrew White (University of Texas at Arlington)

Slides GEM_for_ILC_DHCAL_4.pdf GEM_for_ILC_DHCAL_4.ppt

10:40 GEMs for tracking in JLab

Speaker: Evaristo Cisbani (INFN Rome Gruppo Sanità)

Slides cisbani_gem_jlab.pdf

10:50 → 11:20 coffee break

11:20 → 13:00 MPGD applications II

Convener: Paul Colas (CEA/IRFU DAPNIA Saclay)

11:20 Thin layer Amorphous Silicon technology

Speaker: Nicolas Wyrsch (IMT/University of Neuchatel)

Slides Nikhef_workshop.pdf

11:40 TPC prototype for ILC

Speaker: Klaus Dehmelt (DESY)

LargePrototypeTPC_ILC LargePrototypeTPC_ILC_dehmelt.pdf

12:00 R&D of gating GEM

Speaker: Akira Sugiyama (Universtity of Saga)

Slides R&DGatingGEM.pdf

12:20 Resistive anode readout

Speaker: Stephen Turnbull (Saclay)

Slides Restive_anode_readout.pdf Restive_anode_readout.ppt

12:40 Scintillation readout from micropatterned electron multipliers for dual-phase dark matter detectors

Speaker: Joaquim dos Santos (University of Coimbra)

Slides RD51_JMF_dos_Santos.pdf RD51_JMF_dos_Santos.pptx

13:00 → 13:30 lunch