Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors (RD51) Workshop

from Wednesday, 16 April 2008 (09:00) to Friday, 18 April 2008 (18:20)
NIKHEF, Amsterdam

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
16 Apr 2008
17 Apr 2008
18 Apr 2008
AM
09:00
Opening (until 09:10) ()
09:00 Welcome and Opening - Frank Linde (Nikhef) Leszek Ropelewski (CERN)   ()
09:10
In Memoriam (until 09:20) ()
09:10 Tribute to Vincent Lepeltier - Paul Colas (DAPNIA)   ()
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09:20
New Technology I - Silvia DALLA TORRE (INFN Trieste) (until 10:30) ()
09:20 Gaseous Detectors 1908-2008: one century of success and disappointments - Fabio Sauli (CERN)   ()
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09:50 Results from InGrid/TimePix detectors - Lucie De Nooij (Nikhef)   ()
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10:10 Recent advances in THGEM detectors - Amos Breskin (Weizmann Institute)   ()
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10:30 --- Coffee break ---
10:50
New Technology II - Leszek ROPELEWSKI (CERN) (until 12:40) ()
10:50 Micromegas - Ioanis Giomataris (Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA-Saclay))   ()
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11:20 Large GEM detectors development - Serge Duarte Pinto (CERN)   ()
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11:40 Latest achievements in developments of large-area screen printed resistive GEMs - Vladimir Peskov (CERN)   ()
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12:00 Ion back flow reduction in GEM-like cascades operating in HpXe - Joao F.C.A. Veloso (University of Coimbra)   ()
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12:20 Efficient ion blocking in patterned hole-multipliers and its application to visible-sensitive gas-avalanche photomultipliers - Amos Breskin (Weizmann Institute)   ()
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09:00
Ageing and Radiation Hardness; Irradiation Fascilities - Kari KURVINEN (Helsinki Institute of Physics) (until 09:40) ()
09:00 Irradiation facilities at CERN - Mar Capeans Garrido (CERN)   ()
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09:20 Gossip ageing study - Fred Hartjes (Nikhef)   ()
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09:40
Relations with Industry - Jan Visschers (Nikhef) (until 10:30) ()
09:40 GEM development with Tech-Etch for future detector applications - Dr Frank Simon (MPI for Physics, Munich)   ()
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10:00 Techtra [Wroclaw Technology Park] - Chorowski Maciej (Wroclaw University of Technology)   ()
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10:10 PANalytical - Klaus Bethke (PANalytical)   ()
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10:30 --- coffee break ---
10:50
Data analysis, simulations and software - Alain BELLERIVE (Carleton University) (until 12:50) ()
10:50 Microscopic tracking - Rob Veenhof (IST/CFIF)   ()
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11:10 Energy resolution and ion backflow in InGrid - Maximilien Chefdeville (Nikhef/Saclay)   ()
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11:30 Charge distribution, signal development - Paul Colas (Saclay/DAPNIA)   ()
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11:50 Field solver and its possible application in the simulation of MPGDs - Prof. Supratik Mukhopadhyay (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)   ()
12:10 Penning effect on gas amplification factor - Ozkan Sahin (Uludag University)   ()
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12:30 Geant-4 simulation of gas detectors - Alain Bellerive (Carleton University)   ()
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09:00
MPGD applications I - Leszek ROPELEWSKI (CERN) (until 10:50) ()
09:00 MPGD-based photon detectors for Cherenkov imaging counters - Dr Fulvio Tessarotto (INFN Trieste)   ()
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09:20 Micromegas for rare events searches - Igor Garcia Irastorza (DAPNIA)   ()
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09:40 Gas Pixel transition radiation tracker - Anatoli Romaniouk (Moscow Physical Engineering Institute (MePhl))   ()
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10:00 Micromegas for ATLAS upgrade - Paolo Iengo (CERN)   ()
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10:20 GEM detectors for digital hadron calorimetry - Andrew White (University of Texas at Arlington)   ()
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10:40 GEMs for tracking in JLab - Evaristo Cisbani (INFN Rome Gruppo Sanità)   ()
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10:50 --- coffee break ---
11:20
MPGD applications II - Paul Colas (CEA/IRFU DAPNIA Saclay) (until 13:00) ()
11:20 Thin layer Amorphous Silicon technology - Nicolas Wyrsch (IMT/University of Neuchatel)   ()
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11:40 TPC prototype for ILC - Klaus Dehmelt (DESY)   ()
LargePrototypeTPC_ILC
12:00 R&D of gating GEM - Akira Sugiyama (Universtity of Saga)   ()
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12:20 Resistive anode readout - Stephen Turnbull (Saclay)   ()
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12:40 Scintillation readout from micropatterned electron multipliers for dual-phase dark matter detectors - Joaquim dos Santos (University of Coimbra)   ()
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PM
12:40 --- Lunch ---
14:00
New Technology III - Paul Colas (CEA/IRFU DAPNIA Saclay) (until 15:50) ()
14:00 Radiation detectors made by post-processing standard CMOS: a technologist's perspective - Jurriaan Schmitz (University of Twente/MESA+)   ()
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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+)   ()
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14:50 Track properties recorded by a GEM TimePix - Prof. Andreas Bamberger (Albert-Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg)   ()
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15:10 First results from a prototype TPC with GEM and TimePix at Bonn - Jochen Kaminski (Universität Bonn)   ()
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15:30 PIM: a multi-stage device using micromeshes for tracking particles - Jerome Beucher (SUBATECH/CEA/IRFU/SPP)   ()
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15:50 --- Coffee break ---
16:20
Electronics - Werner Riegler (CERN) (until 18:20) ()
16:20 TimePix-2: a new and fast general purpose MPGD readout pixel chip - Jan Timmermans (Nikhef)   ()
rotating-helix
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16:40 Gossipo-2: testing new concept for TDC-per-pixel - Vladimir Gromov (Nikhef)   ()
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17:00 Status of the Medipix3 development and possible input for Timepix2 - Michael Campbell   ()
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17:20 The protection of CMOS pixel chips against discharges in MPGDs - Martin Fransen (Nikhef)   ()
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17:40 VFAT and portable readout - Paul Aspell (CERN)   ()
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18:00 General discussion   ()
12:50 --- Lunch ---
14:00
RD-51 organization (open status reports presentations) (until 15:30) ()
14:00 Convenors report - Leszek Ropelewski (CERN)   ()
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14:20 Proposal presentation - Dr Maxim TITOV (Freiburg University)   ()
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14:50 MoU presentation - Hans Taureg (CERN, Geneva)   ()
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15:10 Technology transfer - Bernard Denis (CERN)   ()
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15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
RD-51 organization (closed discussion – Institute representatives) (until 18:30) ()
16:00 Formation of Collaboration (list of Institutes, Collaboration Board, CB chairperson)   ()
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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 ---
13:00 --- lunch ---