13th RD51 Collaboration Meeting

from Wednesday 5 February 2014 (08:00) to Friday 7 February 2014 (18:00)
CERN (30/7-018)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
5 Feb 2014
6 Feb 2014
7 Feb 2014
AM
10:00
RD51 Collaboration Board Meeting - Andrew White (University of Texas at Arlington) Maksym Titov (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)) Silvia Dalla Torre (Universita e INFN (IT)) Leszek Ropelewski (CERN) (until 12:00)
Barcelona
CP
Status
Zagreb
09:00
WG1 - Technology & new structures - Paul Colas (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)) Paul Colas (CEA/Irfu) Paul Colas (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR)) Serge Duarte Pinto (Technische Universiteit Delft (NL)) (until 13:00)
09:00 Hybrid MPGD based photon detector, R&D update - Stefano Levorato (Universita e INFN (IT))  
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09:20 First operation of a Timepix3 with Micromegas - Frederik Hartjes (NIKHEF (NL))  
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09:40 Simulations and first tests of double layer, resistive MSGC - Silvia Franchino (CERN)  
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10:00 Micromegas Calorimetry with resistive pads - Maximilien Chefdeville (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
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10:15 Cooling of a TPC using 2-phase CO2 - Deb Sankar Bhattacharya (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))  
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10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
10:50 Technical and political status of ATLAS's NSW - Mauro Iodice (INFN - Sezione di Roma Tre)  
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11:10 Technical and political status of CMS muon chambers upgrade - Michael Tytgat (Ghent University (BE)) Archana Sharma (CERN)  
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11:30 Status of the ALICE TPC upgrade with GEMs - Chilo Garabatos Cuadrado (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))  
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11:50 Status report on segmented mesh microbulk - Dr Esther Ferrer Ribas (DAPNIA, Saclay)  
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09:00
WG5 - Electronics - Hans Muller (CERN - PH/AID) Jochen Kaminski (Universitaet Bonn (DE)) (until 13:00)
09:00 SRS readout of Timepix chips - Michael Lupberger (University of Bonn) Michael Lupberger (Universitaet Bonn (DE))  
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09:20 status of SRS-ATCA ( via Vidyo) - Tomasz Jezynski  
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09:40 Data transfer performance of SRS - Yuhei Morino  
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10:00 Plans for SRS at ELI ( Extreme Light Infrastructure ) - Sorin Martoiu (IFIN-HH Bucharest (RO))  
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10:20 --- Coffee break ---
10:50 GEM Readout System at UVa - Kondo GNANVO (Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Fl, USA) Kondo Gnanvo (University of Virginia (US))  
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11:00 Tutorial on amoreSRS package - Kondo GNANVO (Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Fl, USA) Kondo Gnanvo (University of Virginia (US))  
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11:20 FEC V6 status - Hans Muller (CERN)  
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PM
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00
RD51 Plenary Session and News - Leszek Ropelewski (CERN) Maksym Titov (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)) (until 15:00)
13:00 RD51 Collaboration News - Leszek Ropelewski (CERN) Dr Maxim TITOV (CEA Saclay)  
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13:20 Report from the RD51 Collaboration Board Meeting - Silvia Dalla Torre (Universita e INFN (IT))  
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13:40 Common Project Evaluation and New Submission Procedures - Andrew White (University of Texas at Arlington)  
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13:50 RD51 Collaboration Meeting (Kolkata/India) - Subhasis Chattopadhyay (Department of Atomic Energy (IN))  
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14:10 Proposal to host 2015 MPGD Conference in Italy - Silvia Dalla Torre (Universita e INFN (IT))  
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14:20 Proposal to host 2015 MPGD Conference in Greece - Chariclia Petridou (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki (GR))  
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14:30 Proposal to host 2015 MPGD Conference in France - Paul Colas (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))  
14:40 Report from the RD51 Common Project "High resolution single photo electron scanning for TGEM-s and other MPGD applications" - Dezso Varga (Eotvos Lorand University (HU)) Gergo Hamar (MTA KFKI RMKI) Gergoe Hamar (Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HU))  
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15:00
WG4 - Software & simulation - Rob Veenhof (Uludag University (TR)) Carlos Alberto Bastos De Oliveira (University of Aveiro (PT)) Carlos Alberto Bastos De Oliveira (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, CA, USA) Rob Veenhof (University of Wisconsin) (until 21:00)
15:00 Triple GEM simulations with neBEM - Supratik Mukhopadhyay (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (IN)) Nayana Majumdar (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)  
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15:20 Avalanche simulations in Ar/Ne/He-iC4H10 - Fabian Kuger (Bayerische Julius Max. Universitaet Wuerzburg (DE)) Dr Thomas Zerguerras (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))  
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15:40 Transfer rate updates - Ozkan Sahin (Uludag University) Tadeusz Kowalski (AGH University of Science and Technology (PL))  
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16:00 --- Coffee ---
16:30 Ion mobility measurements - André Cortez (LIP Coimbra, Portugal)  
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17:00 Experimental transport coefficients for electron swarms in Xe-TMA > mixtures and ongoing activities towards modeling - Diego Gonzalez Diaz (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))  
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17:30 Intrinsic position resolution of gaseous detectors for X-ray photons: simulation results from Degrad - Carlos Azevedo (University of Aveiro) Stephen Biagi (CERN)  
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17:50 Recombination simulation - Megan Long  
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13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
WG6 Production - Fabien Jeanneau (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)) Rui De Oliveira (CERN) (until 15:45)
14:00 QC on small NSW prototypes current production - Fabian Kuger (Bayerische Julius Max. Universitaet Wuerzburg (DE))  
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14:20 GEM industrialization in India - Lalit Pant (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (IN))  
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14:40 Carbon sputtering technology for ATLAS MicroMEGAS resistive - Dr Atsuhiko Ochi (Kobe University (JP))  
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15:00 Update on Elvia Micromegas production - Fabien Jeanneau (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))  
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15:20 --- Coffee break ---
15:45
WG7 - Common facilities - Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR)) Eraldo Oliveri (Sezione di Pisa (IT)) (until 16:15)
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16:15
EU H2020 Discussion / MPGD Community Input - Paul Colas (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)) Maksym Titov (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)) Leszek Ropelewski (CERN) (until 18:00)
16:15 MPGD/RD51 Community Input to AIDA2 - Paul Colas (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))  
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16:35 MPGD Distributed Infrastructure in AIDA2 - Silvia Dalla Torre (Universita e INFN (IT))  
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16:55 ITN Marie Curie Framework - Dr Esther Ferrer Ribas (DAPNIA, Saclay)  
17:15 FET Framework in H2020 - Sebastien Procureur (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))  
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20:00
RD51 Conference Dinner (until 23:00)
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
WG2 - Characterization & common projects - Maximilien Chefdeville (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Harry Van Der Graaf (NIKHEF (NL)) Diego Gonzalez Diaz (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES)) (until 17:10)
14:00 Experiments on Triple-GEM at SINP - Prof. Nayana Majumdar (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (IN))  
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14:20 Recent results on Piggyback Micromegas - Ludovic Boilevin-Kayl (CEA)  
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14:40 Tracking in 1 uL of gas - Frederik Hartjes (NIKHEF (NL))  
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15:00 Characterisation of a micromegas + 2 GEM assembly for HARPO - Philippe Gros (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))  
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15:30 --- Coffee break ---
15:50 Update on CMS GEM test beam analysis and simulations - Sinem Salva Diblen (Ghent University (BE))  
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16:10 Towards Large Single-Stage THGEM detector - Luca Moleri  
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16:30 LAr LEM-TPC prototypes: latest developments and LEM charging up measurements - Sebastien Murphy (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))  
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16:50 Thick GEM charging up simulations - Pedro Correia (University of Aveiro) Pedro Manuel Mendes Correia (University of Aveiro (PT))  
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