13th RD51 Collaboration Meeting

Name: 13th RD51 Collaboration Meeting
Start: 2014-02-05T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2014-02-07T18:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

5 Feb 2014, 08:00 → 7 Feb 2014, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium (CERN)

30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium

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Leszek Ropelewski (CERN), Maxim TITOV (CEA Saclay), Serge Duarte Pinto (Technische Universiteit Delft (NL))

Description

Welcome to the 13th RD51 collaboration meeting. This meeting directly follows the RD51 Electronics school, held from 3-5 February.

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Serge.Duarte.Pinto@cern.ch

Wednesday 5 February
- 10:00 → 12:00
  
  RD51 Collaboration Board Meeting
  
  Conveners: Andrew White (University of Texas at Arlington), Leszek Ropelewski (CERN), Maksym Titov (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)), Silvia Dalla Torre (Universita e INFN (IT))
  
  Barcelona
  
  CP
  
  Status
  
  Zagreb
- 12:00 → 13:00
  
  Lunch 1h
- 13:00 → 15:00
  RD51 Plenary Session and News
  
  Conveners: Leszek Ropelewski (CERN), Maksym Titov (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))
  - 13:00
    
    RD51 Collaboration News 20m
    
    Speakers: Leszek Ropelewski (CERN), Dr Maxim TITOV (CEA Saclay)
    
    Slides
  - 13:20
    
    Report from the RD51 Collaboration Board Meeting 20m
    
    Speaker: Silvia Dalla Torre (Universita e INFN (IT))
    
    Slides
  - 13:40
    
    Common Project Evaluation and New Submission Procedures 10m
    
    Speaker: Andrew White (University of Texas at Arlington)
    
    Slides
  - 13:50
    
    RD51 Collaboration Meeting (Kolkata/India) 20m
    
    Speaker: Subhasis Chattopadhyay (Department of Atomic Energy (IN))
    
    Slides
  - 14:10
    
    Proposal to host 2015 MPGD Conference in Italy 10m
    
    Speaker: Silvia Dalla Torre (Universita e INFN (IT))
    
    Slides
  - 14:20
    
    Proposal to host 2015 MPGD Conference in Greece 10m
    
    Speaker: Chariclia Petridou (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki (GR))
    
    Slides
  - 14:30
    Proposal to host 2015 MPGD Conference in France 10m
    
    Speaker: Paul Colas (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))
    
    Slides
    
    diaporama_destination_St-Malo.pps
    
    MPGD2015-Saint_Malo,pptx.pdf
    
    MPGD2015-Saint_Malo,pptx.pptx
  - 14:40
    
    Report from the RD51 Common Project "High resolution single photo electron scanning for TGEM-s and other MPGD applications" 20m
    
    Speakers: Dezso Varga (Eotvos Lorand University (HU)), Gergo Hamar (MTA KFKI RMKI), Gergoe Hamar (Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HU))
    
    Slides
- 15:00 → 21:00
  WG4 - Software & simulation
  
  Conveners: Carlos Alberto Bastos De Oliveira (University of Aveiro (PT)), Carlos Alberto Bastos De Oliveira (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, CA, USA), Rob Veenhof (Uludag University (TR)), Rob Veenhof (University of Wisconsin)
  - 15:00
    
    Triple GEM simulations with neBEM 20m
    
    Speakers: Nayana Majumdar (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics), Supratik Mukhopadhyay (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (IN))
    
    Slides
  - 15:20
    
    Avalanche simulations in Ar/Ne/He-iC4H10 20m
    
    Speakers: Fabian Kuger (Bayerische Julius Max. Universitaet Wuerzburg (DE)), Dr Thomas Zerguerras (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))
    
    Slides
  - 15:40
    
    Transfer rate updates 20m
    
    Speakers: Ozkan Sahin (Uludag University), Tadeusz Kowalski (AGH University of Science and Technology (PL))
    
    Slides
  - 16:00
    
    Coffee 30m
  - 16:30
    
    Ion mobility measurements 30m
    
    Speaker: André Cortez (LIP Coimbra, Portugal)
    
    Slides
  - 17:00
    
    Experimental transport coefficients for electron swarms in Xe-TMA > mixtures and ongoing activities towards modeling 30m
    
    Speaker: Diego Gonzalez Diaz (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))
    
    Slides
  - 17:30
    
    Intrinsic position resolution of gaseous detectors for X-ray photons: simulation results from Degrad 20m
    
    Speakers: Carlos Azevedo (University of Aveiro), Stephen Biagi (CERN)
    
    Slides
  - 17:50
    
    Recombination simulation 30m
    
    Speaker: Megan Long
    
    Slides
Thursday 6 February
- 09:00 → 13:00
  WG1 - Technology & new structures
  
  Conveners: 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))
  - 09:00
    
    Hybrid MPGD based photon detector, R&D update 20m
    
    Speaker: Stefano Levorato (Universita e INFN (IT))
    
    Slides
  - 09:20
    
    First operation of a Timepix3 with Micromegas 20m
    
    Speaker: Frederik Hartjes (NIKHEF (NL))
    
    Slides
  - 09:40
    
    Simulations and first tests of double layer, resistive MSGC 20m
    
    Speaker: Silvia Franchino (CERN)
    
    Slides
  - 10:00
    
    Micromegas Calorimetry with resistive pads 15m
    
    Speaker: Maximilien Chefdeville (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
    
    Slides
  - 10:15
    
    Cooling of a TPC using 2-phase CO2 15m
    
    Speaker: Deb Sankar Bhattacharya (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))
    
    Slides
  - 10:30
    
    Coffee Break 20m
  - 10:50
    
    Technical and political status of ATLAS's NSW 20m
    
    Speaker: Mauro Iodice (INFN - Sezione di Roma Tre)
    
    Slides
  - 11:10
    
    Technical and political status of CMS muon chambers upgrade 20m
    
    Speakers: Archana Sharma (CERN), Michael Tytgat (Ghent University (BE))
    
    Slides
  - 11:30
    
    Status of the ALICE TPC upgrade with GEMs 20m
    
    Speaker: Chilo Garabatos Cuadrado (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))
    
    Slides
  - 11:50
    
    Status report on segmented mesh microbulk 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Esther Ferrer Ribas (DAPNIA, Saclay)
    
    Slides
- 13:00 → 14:00
  
  Lunch 1h
- 14:00 → 15:45
  WG6 Production
  
  Conveners: Fabien Jeanneau (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)), Rui De Oliveira (CERN)
  - 14:00
    
    QC on small NSW prototypes current production 20m
    
    Speaker: Fabian Kuger (Bayerische Julius Max. Universitaet Wuerzburg (DE))
    
    Slides
  - 14:20
    
    GEM industrialization in India 20m
    
    Speaker: Lalit Pant (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (IN))
    
    Slides
  - 14:40
    
    Carbon sputtering technology for ATLAS MicroMEGAS resistive 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Atsuhiko Ochi (Kobe University (JP))
    
    Slides
  - 15:00
    
    Update on Elvia Micromegas production 20m
    
    Speaker: Fabien Jeanneau (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))
    
    Slides
  - 15:20
    
    Coffee break 25m
- 15:45 → 16:15
  
  WG7 - Common facilities
  
  Conveners: Eraldo Oliveri (Sezione di Pisa (IT)), Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR))
  
  slides
- 16:15 → 18:00
  EU H2020 Discussion / MPGD Community Input
  
  Conveners: Leszek Ropelewski (CERN), Maksym Titov (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)), Paul Colas (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))
  - 16:15
    
    MPGD/RD51 Community Input to AIDA2 20m
    
    Speaker: Paul Colas (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))
    
    Slides
  - 16:35
    
    MPGD Distributed Infrastructure in AIDA2 20m
    
    Speaker: Silvia Dalla Torre (Universita e INFN (IT))
    
    Slides
  - 16:55
    
    ITN Marie Curie Framework 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Esther Ferrer Ribas (DAPNIA, Saclay)
  - 17:15
    
    FET Framework in H2020 20m
    
    Speaker: Sebastien Procureur (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))
    
    Slides
- 20:00 → 23:00
  
  RD51 Conference Dinner
Friday 7 February
- 09:00 → 13:00
  WG5 - Electronics
  
  Conveners: Hans Muller (CERN - PH/AID), Jochen Kaminski (Universitaet Bonn (DE))
  - 09:00
    
    SRS readout of Timepix chips 20m
    
    Speakers: Michael Lupberger (University of Bonn), Michael Lupberger (Universitaet Bonn (DE))
    
    Slides
  - 09:20
    
    status of SRS-ATCA ( via Vidyo) 20m
    
    Speaker: Tomasz Jezynski
    
    Slides
  - 09:40
    
    Data transfer performance of SRS 20m
    
    Speaker: Yuhei Morino
    
    Slides
  - 10:00
    
    Plans for SRS at ELI ( Extreme Light Infrastructure ) 20m
    
    Speaker: Sorin Martoiu (IFIN-HH Bucharest (RO))
    
    Slides
  - 10:20
    
    Coffee break 30m
  - 10:50
    
    GEM Readout System at UVa 10m
    
    Speakers: Kondo GNANVO (Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Fl, USA), Kondo Gnanvo (University of Virginia (US))
    
    Slides
  - 11:00
    
    Tutorial on amoreSRS package 20m
    
    Speakers: Kondo GNANVO (Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Fl, USA), Kondo Gnanvo (University of Virginia (US))
    
    Slides
  - 11:20
    
    FEC V6 status 10m
    
    Speaker: Hans Muller (CERN)
    
    Slides
- 13:00 → 14:00
  
  Lunch 1h
- 14:00 → 17:10
  WG2 - Characterization & common projects
  
  Conveners: Diego Gonzalez Diaz (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES)), Harry Van Der Graaf (NIKHEF (NL)), Maximilien Chefdeville (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
  - 14:00
    
    Experiments on Triple-GEM at SINP 20m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Nayana Majumdar (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (IN))
    
    Slides
  - 14:20
    
    Recent results on Piggyback Micromegas 20m
    
    Speaker: Ludovic Boilevin-Kayl (CEA)
    
    Slides
  - 14:40
    
    Tracking in 1 uL of gas 20m
    
    Speaker: Frederik Hartjes (NIKHEF (NL))
    
    Slides
  - 15:00
    
    Characterisation of a micromegas + 2 GEM assembly for HARPO 30m
    
    Speaker: Philippe Gros (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))
    
    Slides
  - 15:30
    
    Coffee break 20m
  - 15:50
    
    Update on CMS GEM test beam analysis and simulations 20m
    
    Speaker: Sinem Salva Diblen (Ghent University (BE))
    
    Slides
  - 16:10
    
    Towards Large Single-Stage THGEM detector 20m
    
    Speaker: Luca Moleri
    
    Slides
  - 16:30
    
    LAr LEM-TPC prototypes: latest developments and LEM charging up measurements 20m
    
    Speaker: Sebastien Murphy (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))
    
    Slides
  - 16:50
    
    Thick GEM charging up simulations 20m
    
    Speakers: Pedro Correia (University of Aveiro), Pedro Manuel Mendes Correia (University of Aveiro (PT))
    
    Slides