Name: 2nd RD51 Collaboration Meeting
Start: 2008-10-13T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2008-10-15T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Paris

Monday, 13 October 2008

13:30

13:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Amphitheatre
Contributions

14:00 Welcome

14:10 Charge to the meeting - Maxim Titov

14:25 News from the LHCC - Leszek Ropelewski

14:35 Next MPGD Conference announcement - Ioannis Giomataris

14:40 MPGD activities in Japan - Atsuhiko Ochi

15:10 SLHC upgrade plans - Steinar STAPNES

15:35 The physics of streamers and discharges - Paulo Fonte
16:30
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Amphitheatre
Contributions

16:30 Application of MPGD to TPC for the ILC - Takeshi Matsuda

16:50 Application of MPGD to Calorimetry - Catherine Adloff

17:10 Application of MPGD in Homeland Security: Muon Tomography - Marcus Hohlmann

17:30 Beam monitors with GEM detectors - Fabrizio Murtas

17:45 RPCs for time-tagged tracking and GEMs for high sensitivity experiments - Rui Ferreira Marques
Tuesday, 14 October 2008
09:00
09:00 - 12:30
Room: Amphitheatre
Contributions

09:00 WG1 Geometry and Interactions - Paul COLAS

09:15 New results on THGEM operation - Amos Breskin

09:35 Practical limits to the size of MPGDs - Rui De Oliveira

09:50 Large area Micromegas - Joerg Wotschack

10:10 Development of Large area GEM detector prototype - Serge Duarte Pinto

11:00 Resistive coatings for resolution and anti-spark protection - Paul COLAS

11:15 Kobe activities on new structures - Atsuhiko OCHI

11:30 Status of the MHSPs performance: recent technological developments and future goals - Joao Veloso

11:45 Cylindrical GEM development - Giovanni Bencivenni

12:00 Flexible Micromegas - Stephan Aune

12:15 Portable detectors
09:00 - 12:30
Room: Room 1
Contributions

09:00 Introduction & Specification Status - Werner Riegler

09:20 Experience with the design and submission of the Medipix3 pixel readout chip in 0.13 um CMOS - Xavier Llopart

09:40 TimePix-2: (general purpose) applications & requirements - N.N. Nikhef

10:00 GEM Amplifier Shaper Tracking ON Events - Antonio Ranieri

10:50 Electronic developments for a Micromegas-based digital hadronic calorimeter - Renaud Gaglione

11:10 The SLAC KPiX chip for ILC DHCA - Andy White

11:30 The MIMAC Asic - Germain Bosson Jean Pierre Richer

11:50 Contribution to development of portable multichannel systems for detector studies - Jose Toledo
09:00 - 12:30
Room: Room 2
Contributions

09:00 RD51 institutes survey on their test beam and irradiation future programmes - Matteo Alfonsi (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF))

09:20 GIF++ design and specifications - Matteo Alfonsi

09:40 Survey of the irradiation facilities outside CERN and available to RD51 members

10:00 Some Suggestions for an Infrastructure at a Common Test Facility - Jochen Kaminski

10:20 Other material for discussion (Eudet, NTUA contributions..)
14:00
14:00 - 17:00
Room: Amphitheatre
Contributions

14:00 Discharges, Discharge Protection, amorphous Silicon, Si Nitride - Martin Fransen

14:20 Chamber Ageing - Fred Hartjes

14:50 Charging Up effects - Harry van der GRAAF

15:10 MPGD Radiation hardness tests for full detectors and components - Gabriele Croci

15:50 Digital primary electron counting: W, Fano Factor, Polya vs Exponential - Max Chefdeville

16:10 T2K Test Bench results on uniformity and reproducibility of Micromegas production - Andrea Ferrero

16:25 Scintillation readout from THGEMs operating in Xe - Joaquim dos Santos

16:40 Energy resolution results for Microbulk Micromegas at high energy and high pressure - Alfredo Tomas Alquezar
14:00 - 17:00
Room: Room 1
Contributions

14:00 Introduction - Rob Veenhof

14:15 Avalanche statistics - Heinrich SCHINDLER

14:45 Geant 4 interface - Rob Veenhof

15:00 BEM method - Sudeb BHATTACHARYA

16:00 Penning transfer - Ozkan SAHIN

16:20 Simulation of an MPGD application for Homeland Security (Muon Tomography) - Kondo GNANVO

16:40 GEM transparency studies - Gabriele Croci
14:00 - 17:00
Room: Room 2
Contributions

14:00 MoU section on intellectual property - Bernard Denis (CERN)

14:30 Status of licensing negotiations at CERN - Emir Kadir Kadir Sirage (Unknown)

14:40 Capabilities of TS/DEM workshop - Rui De Oliveira (CERN)

15:00 Results of the detector dimensions survey - Hans Taureg

15:20 Discussion

16:00 THGEM production in ELTOS company - Fulvio Tessarotto

16:20 CIRE/SPCI and Prospects for Bulk Micromegas production - Tomao
17:00
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Amphitheatre
Contributions

17:00 RD51 Collaboration Meeting agenda (password protected)
20:00

20:00 - 22:00
Room: Restaurant PERRAUDIN
Wednesday, 15 October 2008
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Room 1
Contributions

09:00 Introduction - Amos Breskin

09:20 THGEM characterization studies - Elena Rocco

09:35 Exploratory studies of multiple THGEM configurations for the detection of ionizing particle and photons - Jaroslav Polak

09:50 Discussion on THGEM application for RICH - Amos Breskin
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Amphitheatre
Contributions

09:00 GEM & TimePix readout of TPCs: new results from the Bonn group - Jochen Kaminski

09:15 Test Beam Measurements for a Thick-GEM Based Trigger Detector - Gergo Hamar

09:30 RPCs for time-tagged tracking and GEMs for high sensitivity experiments - Rui Ferreira Marques
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Room 2
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Amphitheatre
Contributions

11:00 WG1: Technological Aspects and Development of New detector Strucures - Paul Colas Silvia Dalla Torre

11:30 WG2: Common Characterization and Physics Issues - Harry van der Graaf Vladimir Peskov

12:00 WG4: Simulations and Software Tools - Alain Bellerive Rob Veenhof
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Amphitheatre
Contributions

14:00 WG5: MPGD Related Electronics - Michael Campbell Werner Riegler

14:30 WG6: Production - Hans Taureg

15:00 WG7: Common Test Facilities - Matteo Alfonsi
15:30
15:30 - 16:00
Contributions

15:30 Collaboration Board meeting summary - Silvia Dalla Torre

15:45 Workshop summary - Leszek Ropelewski Maxim Titiov