2nd RD51 Collaboration Meeting

from Monday, October 13, 2008 (9:00 AM) to Wednesday, October 15, 2008 (4:00 PM)
Paris

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Oct 13, 2008
Oct 14, 2008
Oct 15, 2008
AM
9:00 AM
WG1: Technological Aspects and Developments of New Detector Structures (until 12:30 PM) (Amphitheatre)
9:00 AM WG1 Geometry and Interactions - Paul COLAS   (Amphitheatre)
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9:15 AM New results on THGEM operation - Amos Breskin   (Amphitheatre)
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9:35 AM Practical limits to the size of MPGDs - Rui De Oliveira   (Amphitheatre)
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9:50 AM Large area Micromegas - Joerg Wotschack   (Amphitheatre)
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10:10 AM Development of Large area GEM detector prototype - Serge Duarte Pinto   (Amphitheatre)
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10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM Resistive coatings for resolution and anti-spark protection - Paul COLAS   (Amphitheatre)
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11:15 AM Kobe activities on new structures - Atsuhiko OCHI   (Amphitheatre)
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11:30 AM Status of the MHSPs performance: recent technological developments and future goals - Joao Veloso   (Amphitheatre)
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11:45 AM Cylindrical GEM development - Giovanni Bencivenni   (Amphitheatre)
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12:00 PM Flexible Micromegas - Stephan Aune   (Amphitheatre)
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12:15 PM Portable detectors   (Amphitheatre)
9:00 AM
WG5: MPGD Related Electronics (until 12:30 PM) (Room 1)
9:00 AM Introduction & Specification Status - Werner Riegler   (Room 1)
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9:20 AM Experience with the design and submission of the Medipix3 pixel readout chip in 0.13 um CMOS - Xavier Llopart   (Room 1)
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9:40 AM TimePix-2: (general purpose) applications & requirements - N.N. Nikhef   (Room 1)
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10:00 AM GEM Amplifier Shaper Tracking ON Events - Antonio Ranieri   (Room 1)
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10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:50 AM Electronic developments for a Micromegas-based digital hadronic calorimeter - Renaud Gaglione   (Room 1)
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11:10 AM The SLAC KPiX chip for ILC DHCA - Andy White   (Room 1)
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11:30 AM The MIMAC Asic - Jean Pierre Richer Germain Bosson   (Room 1)
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11:50 AM Contribution to development of portable multichannel systems for detector studies - Jose Toledo   (Room 1)
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9:00 AM
WG7: Common Test Facilities (until 12:30 PM) (Room 2)
9:00 AM RD51 institutes survey on their test beam and irradiation future programmes - Matteo Alfonsi (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF))   (Room 2)
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9:20 AM GIF++ design and specifications - Matteo Alfonsi   (Room 2)
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9:40 AM Survey of the irradiation facilities outside CERN and available to RD51 members   (Room 2)
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10:00 AM Some Suggestions for an Infrastructure at a Common Test Facility - Jochen Kaminski   (Room 2)
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10:20 AM Other material for discussion (Eudet, NTUA contributions..)   (Room 2)
9:00 AM
Special meeting on MPGD photodetectors (until 10:30 AM) (Room 1)
9:00 AM Introduction - Amos Breskin   (Room 1)
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9:20 AM THGEM characterization studies - Elena Rocco   (Room 1)
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9:35 AM Exploratory studies of multiple THGEM configurations for the detection of ionizing particle and photons - Jaroslav Polak   (Room 1)
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9:50 AM Discussion on THGEM application for RICH - Amos Breskin   (Room 1)
9:00 AM
Spill-over from parallel sessions and WG1&2 discussion session (until 10:30 AM) (Amphitheatre)
9:00 AM GEM & TimePix readout of TPCs: new results from the Bonn group - Jochen Kaminski   (Amphitheatre)
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9:15 AM Test Beam Measurements for a Thick-GEM Based Trigger Detector - Gergo Hamar   (Amphitheatre)
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9:30 AM RPCs for time-tagged tracking and GEMs for high sensitivity experiments - Rui Ferreira Marques   (Amphitheatre)
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9:00 AM
WG5 Electronics discussion session (until 10:30 AM) (Room 2)
11:00 AM
Plenary Session - Reports from Working Groups (until 12:30 PM) (Amphitheatre)
11:00 AM WG1: Technological Aspects and Development of New detector Strucures - Paul Colas Silvia Dalla Torre   (Amphitheatre)
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11:30 AM WG2: Common Characterization and Physics Issues - Harry van der Graaf Vladimir Peskov   (Amphitheatre)
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12:00 PM WG4: Simulations and Software Tools - Alain Bellerive Rob Veenhof   (Amphitheatre)
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PM
1:30 PM
Registration (until 2:00 PM) ()
2:00 PM
Plenary Session - Opening and Reviews (until 4:00 PM) (Amphitheatre)
2:00 PM Welcome   (Amphitheatre)
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2:10 PM Charge to the meeting - Maxim Titov   (Amphitheatre)
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2:25 PM News from the LHCC - Leszek Ropelewski   (Amphitheatre)
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2:35 PM Next MPGD Conference announcement - Ioannis Giomataris   (Amphitheatre)
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2:40 PM MPGD activities in Japan - Atsuhiko Ochi   (Amphitheatre)
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3:10 PM SLHC upgrade plans - Steinar STAPNES   (Amphitheatre)
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3:35 PM The physics of streamers and discharges - Paulo Fonte   (Amphitheatre)
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4:30 PM
Plenary Session - WG3 : Applications of MPGDs (until 6:00 PM) (Amphitheatre)
4:30 PM Application of MPGD to TPC for the ILC - Takeshi Matsuda   (Amphitheatre)
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4:50 PM Application of MPGD to Calorimetry - Catherine Adloff   (Amphitheatre)
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5:10 PM Application of MPGD in Homeland Security: Muon Tomography - Marcus Hohlmann   (Amphitheatre)
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5:30 PM Beam monitors with GEM detectors - Fabrizio Murtas   (Amphitheatre)
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5:45 PM RPCs for time-tagged tracking and GEMs for high sensitivity experiments - Rui Ferreira Marques   (Amphitheatre)
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2:00 PM
WG2: Common Characterization and Physics Issues (until 5:00 PM) (Amphitheatre)
2:00 PM Discharges, Discharge Protection, amorphous Silicon, Si Nitride - Martin Fransen   (Amphitheatre)
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2:20 PM Chamber Ageing - Fred Hartjes   (Amphitheatre)
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2:50 PM Charging Up effects - Harry van der GRAAF   (Amphitheatre)
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3:10 PM MPGD Radiation hardness tests for full detectors and components - Gabriele Croci   (Amphitheatre)
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3:30 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:50 PM Digital primary electron counting: W, Fano Factor, Polya vs Exponential - Max Chefdeville   (Amphitheatre)
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4:10 PM T2K Test Bench results on uniformity and reproducibility of Micromegas production - Andrea Ferrero   (Amphitheatre)
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4:25 PM Scintillation readout from THGEMs operating in Xe - Joaquim dos Santos   (Amphitheatre)
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4:40 PM Energy resolution results for Microbulk Micromegas at high energy and high pressure - Alfredo Tomas Alquezar   (Amphitheatre)
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2:00 PM
WG4: Simulations and Software Tools (until 5:00 PM) (Room 1)
2:00 PM Introduction - Rob Veenhof   (Room 1)
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2:15 PM Avalanche statistics - Heinrich SCHINDLER   (Room 1)
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2:45 PM Geant 4 interface - Rob Veenhof   (Room 1)
3:00 PM BEM method - Sudeb BHATTACHARYA   (Room 1)
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3:30 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM Penning transfer - Ozkan SAHIN   (Room 1)
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4:20 PM Simulation of an MPGD application for Homeland Security (Muon Tomography) - Kondo GNANVO   (Room 1)
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4:40 PM GEM transparency studies - Gabriele Croci   (Room 1)
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2:00 PM
WG6: Production (until 5:00 PM) (Room 2)
2:00 PM MoU section on intellectual property - Bernard Denis (CERN)   (Room 2)
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2:30 PM Status of licensing negotiations at CERN - Emir Kadir Kadir Sirage (Unknown)   (Room 2)
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2:40 PM Capabilities of TS/DEM workshop - Rui De Oliveira (CERN)   (Room 2)
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3:00 PM Results of the detector dimensions survey - Hans Taureg   (Room 2)
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3:20 PM Discussion   (Room 2)
3:30 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM THGEM production in ELTOS company - Fulvio Tessarotto   (Room 2)
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4:20 PM CIRE/SPCI and Prospects for Bulk Micromegas production - Mr Tomao   (Room 2)
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5:00 PM
Collaboration Board meeting (until 6:30 PM) (Amphitheatre)
5:00 PM RD51 Collaboration Meeting agenda (password protected)   (Amphitheatre)
agenda
8:00 PM
Conference Dinner (until 10:00 PM) (Restaurant PERRAUDIN)
2:00 PM
Plenary Session - Reports from Working Groups (until 3:30 PM) (Amphitheatre)
2:00 PM WG5: MPGD Related Electronics - Michael Campbell Werner Riegler   (Amphitheatre)
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2:30 PM WG6: Production - Hans Taureg   (Amphitheatre)
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3:00 PM WG7: Common Test Facilities - Matteo Alfonsi   (Amphitheatre)
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3:30 PM
Conclusions and outlook (until 4:00 PM) ()
3:30 PM Collaboration Board meeting summary - Silvia Dalla Torre   ()
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3:45 PM Workshop summary - Leszek Ropelewski Maxim Titiov   ()