IWAD and the 14th RD51 Collaboration Meeting

27 Oct 2014, 08:00 → 31 Oct 2014, 20:00 Europe/Zurich

Kolkata, India

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

Dear Colleagues,

    the International Workshop on Advanced Detectors (IWAD) and RD51 Collaboration Meeting will take place in Kolkata, India from October 27 to October 31.

The RD51 working group meetings are planned from Wednesday, October 29 to Friday, October 31. Please contact the corresponding WG convener if you would like to make a presentation.

   We are looking forward to see you in Kolkata !

   Best regards, Leszek and Maxim.

Wednesday, 29 October

09:30 → 10:10 RD51 Plenary Session

09:30 RD51 Collaboration News

Speakers: Leszek Ropelewski (CERN), Maksym Titov (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)), Dr Maxim TITOV (CEA Saclay)

Slides 201410_14thRD51_CollabNews_29102014_FINAL.pdf 201410_14thRD51_CollabNews_29102014_FINAL.pptx

10:10 → 13:30 WG6 - Production

Conveners: Fabien Jeanneau (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)), Rui De Oliveira (CERN)

10:10 Tech-etch GEM production status

Speaker: Bernd Surrow

Slides BSurrow-RD51-Single-Mask-GEM-POSTING.pdf

10:30 GEM foil development at ECIL (presented by S.Nagarajan)

Speaker: Anand Kumar Dubey (Department of Atomic Energy (IN))

Slides GEM@ECIL.pdf GEM@ECIL.pptx

10:50 Single mask GEM foil development in India (presented by P.Menon)

Speaker: Lalit Pant (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (IN))

Slides Single_Mask_GEM_foil_development_in_India_-_Micropack_Oct25_FINAL.pdf Single_Mask_GEM_foil_development_in_India_-_Micropack_Oct25_FINAL.pptx

11:10 coffee break

11:50 GEM foils quality control from high resolution images

Speaker: Rafael M Gutierrez (Universidad Antonio Nariño)

12:10 Dry process for GEM foil fabrication (presented by A.Joshi)

Speaker: Lalit Pant (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (IN))

Slides

• Reactive_Ion_Etching_version_4_FINAL.pdf
• Reactive_Ion_Etching_version_4_FINAL.pptx
• Reactive_Ion_Etching_version_4_FINAL.pptx

12:30 Gem production at Techtra

Speaker: Piotr Bielowka (Unknown)

Slides TechtraRD51_29.10.2014.pdf TechtraRD51_29.10.2014.pptx

12:50 GEM and MIcromegas standard detectors

Speaker: Silvia Franchino (CERN)

Slides Franchino_Kolkata_stndGEM_MM.pdf

13:10 discussion

13:30 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 18:30 WG4 - Software

Conveners: Carlos Alberto Bastos De Oliveira (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, CA, USA), Carlos Alberto Bastos De Oliveira (University of Aveiro (PT)), Rob Veenhof (Uludag University (TR)), Rob Veenhof (University of Wisconsin)

14:30 Carbon Coated Gas Electron Multipliers for Time Projection Chamber Prototype

Speaker: Saiqa Shahid (Siegen)

Slides saiqa.pdf

14:55 Charging up effects in the triple GEM detector

Speakers: Bartosz Mindur (AGH University of Science and Technology (PL)), Dr Bartosz Mindur (AGH University of Science and Technology)

Slides present_charging.pdf

15:20 Three-dimensional simulation of gaseous detectors

Speaker: Prakhar Garg (Varanasi)

15:45 Ion Mobility in Relevant Gas Mixtures - A Review

Speaker: Pedro Encarnação (Universidade de Coimbra)

Slides RD51-_Ion_Mobility_in_a_Relevant_Gas_Mixtures-_Pedro_Encarnação.pdf

16:10 Signal shapes in the Alice TPC

Speaker: Mesut Arslandok (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE))

Slides mesut_arslandok_RD51_2014_TPCsignal.pdf

16:35 Coffee

17:00 neBEM updates and applications

Speakers: Supratik Mukhopadhyay (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (IN)), Supratik Mukhopadhyay (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics), Supratik Mukhopadhyay (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (IN))

Slides neBEMUpdatesApplications.pdf

17:25 Gain Ar-CO2 mixtures

Speakers: Ozkan Sahin (Uludag University (TR)), Ozkan Sahin (Uludag University), ozkan sahin (Uludag University)

Slides Ozkan_RD51_Kolkata_29_31_October_2014.pdf

17:50 Basics of ion transport simulation

Speaker: Yalcin Kalkan (Uludag University (TR))

Slides Yalcin_Kalkan_Kolkata.pdf

18:10 Ion clustering

Speaker: Tuğba Özdemir (Bursa)

Slides Kolkata_presentation_.pdf

18:30 → 20:00 Collaboration Board meeting

Conveners: Andrew White (University of Texas at Arlington (US)), Andrew White (University of Texas at Arlington), Leszek Ropelewski (CERN), Dr Maksym Titov (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)), Maksym Titov (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)), Dr Maxim TITOV (CEA Saclay), Silvia Dalla Torre (Universita e INFN (IT))

slides

• 1_CB_MeetingAgenda_29102014.pptx
• Biswas_India-NISER-RD51-Application.ppt.pptx
• Munhoz_Brazil_RD51Application.pdf
• Park_Korea_RD51Application.pdf
• Taureg_CB-CommonFundStatus-October2014.pptx
• Taureg_New-RD51-MembershipApplications.pptx

Thursday, 30 October

09:30 → 10:10 WG5 - Electronics

Conveners: Hans Muller (CERN), Jochen Kaminski (Universitaet Bonn (DE))

09:30 Self-triggered readout of GEM in CBM

Speaker: Jogender Saini (Department of Atomic Energy (IN))

Slides RD51_presentation.pdf RD51_presentation.pptx

09:50 Introduction of a Monitoring & Control System for common lab applications

Speaker: Florian Maximilian Brunbauer (Vienna University of Technology (AT))

notes Documentation and Manual for the Monitoring & Control System

Slides MonitoringControlSystem.pdf MonitoringControlSystem.ppt

10:10 → 12:00 WG1 - Technology

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))

10:10 CMS muon chambers

Speaker: Sunanda Banerjee (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (IN))

Slides CMSGEM01.pdf

10:30 ATLAS muon chambers: from MSW1 to MSW2

Speaker: Joerg Wotschack (CERN)

Slides RD51_Kolkata_WG1.pdf RD51_Kolkata_WG1.pptx

10:50 Measurement and simulation of cooling in Micromegas LCTPC

Speaker: Deb Sankar Bhattacharya (SINP/CEA)

11:10 Micromegas as low background x-ray detectors for axion searches: CAST and IAXO

Speaker: Javier Gracia Garza (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))

Slides mMaxions_RD51Oct2014.pdf

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 18:30 EXCURSION

Friday, 31 October

09:30 → 13:30 WG2 - Physics issues

Conveners: Diego Gonzalez Diaz (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES)), Harry Van Der Graaf (NIKHEF (NL)), Maximilien Chefdeville (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

09:30 What we learnt from the ATLAS-Mamma project

Speaker: Joerg Wotschack (CERN)

Slides RD51_Kolkata_WG2.pdf RD51_Kolkata_WG2.pptx

10:10 New results from LCTPC tests

Speaker: Paul Colas (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))

10:30 Ion backflow in Bulk Micromegas detectors

Speakers: Purba Bhattacharya (CERN), Purba Bhattacharya (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (IN))

Slides 14thRd51-WG2-Purba.pdf

10:50 New results from the Test Beam of Hybrid THGEM-Micromegas Photon Detector

Speaker: Shuddha Shankar Dasgupta (INFN - Trieste)

Slides Shuddha_Kolkata_RD51_OCT_31.pdf Shuddha_Kolkata_RD51_OCT_31.pptx

11:10 Coffee break

11:30 Update on Charge Transfer Properties Through Graphene Layers in Gas Detectors

Speaker: Patrik Thuiner (Vienna University of Technology (AT))

Slides 141031_Thuiner.pdf

11:50 GEM behaviour at high x-ray fluxes

Speaker: Dr Filippo Resnati (CERN)

Slides kolkata.pdf

12:10 Recent results of LAr LEM TPC R&D

Speaker: Shuoxing Wu (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

Slides RD51_swu.pdf

12:30 Experimental determination of GEM avalanche multiplicity distribution

Speaker: Andras Laszlo (Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HU))

Slides avalanchestat.pdf

13:30 → 14:30 Lunch

14:15 → 16:55 WG7 - Test beam

Conveners: Eraldo Oliveri (Sezione di Pisa (IT)), Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR))

14:30 Introduction

Speakers: Eraldo Oliveri (Sezione di Pisa (IT)), Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR))

Slides wg7-rd51cm-kolkata.pdf wg7-rd51cm-kolkata.pptx

14:35 ATLAS: New Small Wheel ATLAS Micromegas plans in the magnetic field at SPS/H4

Speakers: Paolo Iengo (CERN), Theodoros Alexopoulos (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR))

Slides theoalex_31_10_2014_rd51_MM_nsw_atlas.pdf theoalex_31_10_2014_rd51_MM_nsw_atlas.pptx

14:55 Status of the ALICE TPC upgrade and beam-time prospects

Speaker: Alexander Deisting (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))

Slides ALICE-WG7.pdf

15:15 CMS: Plans for 2014 SPS/H4 Test Beam

Speaker: Jeremie Alexandre Merlin (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC-FR))

Slides CMSGEM_TestBeamUpdate_2014.pdf

15:35 DEMOKRITOS/LAPP/ATHENS/IRFU: Resistive Micromegas for Calorimetry

Speaker: Maximilien Chefdeville (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

Slides wg7_micromegas_calorimetry.pdf

15:55 LNF:TripleGEMs for BESSIII and SHIP

Speaker: Giulietto Felici (Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare (IT))

Slides Kolkata_BESSIII.pdf Kolkata_BESSIII.pptx

16:15 WIS/AVEIRO/COIMBRA:Test beam evaluation of large single-stage THGEM detectors

Speaker: Shikma Bressler (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))

Slides RD51Meeting-11.14_Shikma_0.pdf