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

Monday, October 13, 2008

1:30 PM

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Amphitheatre
Contributions

2:00 PM Welcome

2:10 PM Charge to the meeting - Maxim Titov

2:25 PM News from the LHCC - Leszek Ropelewski

2:35 PM Next MPGD Conference announcement - Ioannis Giomataris

2:40 PM MPGD activities in Japan - Atsuhiko Ochi

3:10 PM SLHC upgrade plans - Steinar STAPNES

3:35 PM The physics of streamers and discharges - Paulo Fonte
4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Amphitheatre
Contributions

4:30 PM Application of MPGD to TPC for the ILC - Takeshi Matsuda

4:50 PM Application of MPGD to Calorimetry - Catherine Adloff

5:10 PM Application of MPGD in Homeland Security: Muon Tomography - Marcus Hohlmann

5:30 PM Beam monitors with GEM detectors - Fabrizio Murtas

5:45 PM RPCs for time-tagged tracking and GEMs for high sensitivity experiments - Rui Ferreira Marques
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Amphitheatre
Contributions

9:00 AM WG1 Geometry and Interactions - Paul COLAS

9:15 AM New results on THGEM operation - Amos Breskin

9:35 AM Practical limits to the size of MPGDs - Rui De Oliveira

9:50 AM Large area Micromegas - Joerg Wotschack

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

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

11:15 AM Kobe activities on new structures - Atsuhiko OCHI

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

11:45 AM Cylindrical GEM development - Giovanni Bencivenni

12:00 PM Flexible Micromegas - Stephan Aune

12:15 PM Portable detectors
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Room 1
Contributions

9:00 AM Introduction & Specification Status - Werner Riegler

9:20 AM Experience with the design and submission of the Medipix3 pixel readout chip in 0.13 um CMOS - Xavier Llopart

9:40 AM TimePix-2: (general purpose) applications & requirements - N.N. Nikhef

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

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

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

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

11:50 AM Contribution to development of portable multichannel systems for detector studies - Jose Toledo
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Room 2
Contributions

9:00 AM RD51 institutes survey on their test beam and irradiation future programmes - Matteo Alfonsi (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF))

9:20 AM GIF++ design and specifications - Matteo Alfonsi

9:40 AM Survey of the irradiation facilities outside CERN and available to RD51 members

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

10:20 AM Other material for discussion (Eudet, NTUA contributions..)
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Amphitheatre
Contributions

2:00 PM Discharges, Discharge Protection, amorphous Silicon, Si Nitride - Martin Fransen

2:20 PM Chamber Ageing - Fred Hartjes

2:50 PM Charging Up effects - Harry van der GRAAF

3:10 PM MPGD Radiation hardness tests for full detectors and components - Gabriele Croci

3:50 PM Digital primary electron counting: W, Fano Factor, Polya vs Exponential - Max Chefdeville

4:10 PM T2K Test Bench results on uniformity and reproducibility of Micromegas production - Andrea Ferrero

4:25 PM Scintillation readout from THGEMs operating in Xe - Joaquim dos Santos

4:40 PM Energy resolution results for Microbulk Micromegas at high energy and high pressure - Alfredo Tomas Alquezar
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Room 1
Contributions

2:00 PM Introduction - Rob Veenhof

2:15 PM Avalanche statistics - Heinrich SCHINDLER

2:45 PM Geant 4 interface - Rob Veenhof

3:00 PM BEM method - Sudeb BHATTACHARYA

4:00 PM Penning transfer - Ozkan SAHIN

4:20 PM Simulation of an MPGD application for Homeland Security (Muon Tomography) - Kondo GNANVO

4:40 PM GEM transparency studies - Gabriele Croci
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Room 2
Contributions

2:00 PM MoU section on intellectual property - Bernard Denis (CERN)

2:30 PM Status of licensing negotiations at CERN - Emir Kadir Kadir Sirage (Unknown)

2:40 PM Capabilities of TS/DEM workshop - Rui De Oliveira (CERN)

3:00 PM Results of the detector dimensions survey - Hans Taureg

3:20 PM Discussion

4:00 PM THGEM production in ELTOS company - Fulvio Tessarotto

4:20 PM CIRE/SPCI and Prospects for Bulk Micromegas production - Tomao
5:00 PM
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Amphitheatre
Contributions

5:00 PM RD51 Collaboration Meeting agenda (password protected)
8:00 PM

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Room: Restaurant PERRAUDIN
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Room 1
Contributions

9:00 AM Introduction - Amos Breskin

9:20 AM THGEM characterization studies - Elena Rocco

9:35 AM Exploratory studies of multiple THGEM configurations for the detection of ionizing particle and photons - Jaroslav Polak

9:50 AM Discussion on THGEM application for RICH - Amos Breskin
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Amphitheatre
Contributions

9:00 AM GEM & TimePix readout of TPCs: new results from the Bonn group - Jochen Kaminski

9:15 AM Test Beam Measurements for a Thick-GEM Based Trigger Detector - Gergo Hamar

9:30 AM RPCs for time-tagged tracking and GEMs for high sensitivity experiments - Rui Ferreira Marques
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Room 2
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Amphitheatre
Contributions

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

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

12:00 PM WG4: Simulations and Software Tools - Alain Bellerive Rob Veenhof
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Amphitheatre
Contributions

2:00 PM WG5: MPGD Related Electronics - Michael Campbell Werner Riegler

2:30 PM WG6: Production - Hans Taureg

3:00 PM WG7: Common Test Facilities - Matteo Alfonsi
3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM Collaboration Board meeting summary - Silvia Dalla Torre

3:45 PM Workshop summary - Leszek Ropelewski Maxim Titiov