2nd RD51 Collaboration Meeting

13 Oct 2008, 09:00 → 15 Oct 2008, 16:00 Europe/Zurich

Paris

Leszek Ropelewski (CERN), Maxim Titov (CEA Saclay)

Dear Colleagues, We are happy to invite you to the next RD51 meeting which will take place in Paris, from 13th to 15th of October 2008. After the kick-off held at CERN in September 2007 and the first RD51 meeting in Amsterdam in April which set up the collaboration, the aim of this meeting is to finalise the working group structure and to launch joint activities within RD51. The program will consist of plenary sessions and parallel working group meetings on techniques, detector physics issues, simulations, applications, electronics, and common production and test facilities. The venue will be at the heart of the 'Latin Quarter' of Paris, at the 'Institut Henri Poincaré', next to Pierre and Marie Curie's laboratory. There will be no registration fees. The Collaboration dinner will be held on Tuesday, October 14 (cost 50€, to be payed at the registration in cash). We look forward to welcome you in Paris. Paul Colas, Ioannis Giomataris and Maxim Titov Local organisation: David Attié (scientific secretary), Emilie Chancrin (secretary), Lydia Coudray (secretary), Nathalie Le Devedec (secretary), Joel Surget (technical coordinator), Paul Colas

Monday, 13 October

13:30 → 14:00 Registration

14:00 → 16:00 Plenary Session - Opening and Reviews

RD51 Collaboration meeting, plenary talks

14:00 Welcome

Slides Colas.pdf Colas.ppt

14:10 Charge to the meeting

Speaker: Maxim Titov

Slides RD51_charge_final.pdf RD51_charge_final.ppt

14:25 News from the LHCC

Speaker: Leszek Ropelewski

Slides RD51_Paris_LHCC_news.pdf RD51_Paris_LHCC_news.ppt

14:35 Next MPGD Conference announcement

Speaker: Ioannis Giomataris

Slides NEXT-_Conferencesppt.pdf NEXT-_Conferencesppt.ppt

14:40 MPGD activities in Japan

Speaker: Atsuhiko Ochi

Slides jpn_mpgd_v1.pdf jpn_mpgd_v1.pptx

15:10 SLHC upgrade plans

Speaker: Steinar STAPNES

Slides rd51-paris.pdf rd51-paris.ppt

15:35 The physics of streamers and discharges

Speaker: Paulo Fonte

Slides The_physics_of_streamers_and_discharges.pdf The_physics_of_streamers_and_discharges.ppt

16:30 → 18:00 Plenary Session - WG3 : Applications of MPGDs

16:30 Application of MPGD to TPC for the ILC

Speaker: Takeshi Matsuda

Slides MPGD_TPC_RD51.pdf MPGD_TPC_RD51.ppt

16:50 Application of MPGD to Calorimetry

Speaker: Catherine Adloff

Slides 081013RD51_DHCAL.pdf 081013RD51_DHCAL.ppt

17:10 Application of MPGD in Homeland Security: Muon Tomography

Speaker: Marcus Hohlmann

Slides Hohlmann_MPGD_application_muon_tomography_RD51_Oct13_2008_final.pdf Hohlmann_MPGD_application_muon_tomography_RD51_Oct13_2008_final.ppt

17:30 Beam monitors with GEM detectors

Speaker: Fabrizio Murtas

Slides beam_monitors_paris.pdf beam_monitors_paris.ppt

17:45 RPCs for time-tagged tracking and GEMs for high sensitivity experiments

Speaker: Rui Ferreira Marques

Slides RFM_RD51_Paris.pdf RFM_RD51_Paris.ppt

Tuesday, 14 October

09:00 → 12:30 WG1: Technological Aspects and Developments of New Detector Structures

09:00 WG1 Geometry and Interactions

Speaker: Paul COLAS

Slides WG1-Geometry.pdf WG1-Geometry.ppt

09:15 New results on THGEM operation

Speaker: Amos Breskin

Slides THGEM.pdf THGEM.ppt

09:35 Practical limits to the size of MPGDs

Speaker: Rui De Oliveira

Slides practical-limits.pdf practical-limits.ppt

09:50 Large area Micromegas

Speaker: Joerg Wotschack

Slides Atlas_MPGD_wotschack.pdf

10:10 Development of Large area GEM detector prototype

Speaker: Serge Duarte Pinto

Slides 081014Workshop.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

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

Speaker: Paul COLAS

Slides resistive_anode.pdf resistive_anode.ppt

11:15 Kobe activities on new structures

Speaker: Atsuhiko OCHI

Slides kobe_RD51_v1.pdf kobe_RD51_v1.pptx

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

Speaker: Joao Veloso

Slides Paris_joao_veloso_v2.pdf Paris_joao_veloso_v2.ppt

11:45 Cylindrical GEM development

Speaker: Giovanni Bencivenni

Slides RD51-14oct-bencivenni.pdf RD51-14oct-bencivenni.ppt

12:00 Flexible Micromegas

Speaker: Stephan Aune

Slides RD51-_aune.pdf RD51-_aune.ppt

12:15 Portable detectors

09:00 → 12:30 WG5: MPGD Related Electronics

09:00 Introduction & Specification Status

Speaker: Werner Riegler

Slides rd51_paris_2008_riegler.pdf rd51_paris_2008_riegler.pptx

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

Speaker: Xavier Llopart

Slides RD51_XLlopart.pdf RD51_XLlopart.pptx

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

Speaker: N.N. Nikhef

Slides TimePix-2_harry.pdf TimePix-2_harry.ppt

10:00 GEM Amplifier Shaper Tracking ON Events

Speaker: Antonio Ranieri

Slides Ranieri.pdf Ranieri.ppt

10:30 Coffee break

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

Speaker: Renaud Gaglione

Slides rd51_gaglione.pdf

11:10 The SLAC KPiX chip for ILC DHCA

Speaker: Andy White

Slides KPiX_GEM_DHCAL_Paris_andy.pdf KPiX_GEM_DHCAL_Paris_andy.ppt

11:30 The MIMAC Asic

Speakers: Germain Bosson, Jean Pierre Richer

Slides RD51_Chip_MIMAC_richer.pdf RD51_Chip_MIMAC_richer.ppt

11:50 Contribution to development of portable multichannel systems for detector studies

Speaker: Jose Toledo

Slides Paris_toledo.pdf Paris_toledo.ppt

09:00 → 12:30 WG7: Common Test Facilities

09:00 RD51 institutes survey on their test beam and irradiation future programmes

Speaker: Matteo Alfonsi (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF))

Slides RD51TestBeamPlanning.pdf RD51TestBeamPlanning.ppt

09:20 GIF++ design and specifications

Speaker: Matteo Alfonsi

document 20080919_Specs_GIF++_V2.pdf

Slides GIF++RD51.pdf GIF++RD51.pptx

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

Slides RD51Facilities.pdf RD51Facilities.ppt

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

Speaker: Jochen Kaminski

Slides WG7_kaminski.pdf

10:20 Other material for discussion (Eudet, NTUA contributions..)

Slides

• Greece-Saclay-SLHC-project-Oct08.pdf
• Greece-Saclay-SLHC-project-Oct08.ppt
• Telescope_Eudet.pdf

14:00 → 17:00 WG2: Common Characterization and Physics Issues

14:00 Discharges, Discharge Protection, amorphous Silicon, Si Nitride

Speaker: Martin Fransen

Slides RD51_paris_2008_M_fransen.pdf RD51_paris_2008_M_fransen.ppt

14:20 Chamber Ageing

Speaker: Fred Hartjes

Slides Hartjes_MPGD_ageing_RD51oct08.pdf Hartjes_MPGD_ageing_RD51oct08.ppt

14:50 Charging Up effects

Speaker: Harry van der GRAAF

Slides ChargeUpeffects.pdf ChargeUpeffects.ppt

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

Speaker: Gabriele Croci

Slides RadiationHarness_Presentation.pdf RadiationHarness_Presentation.ppt

15:30 Coffee break

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

Speaker: Max Chefdeville

Slides RD51Paris2008Max.pdf RD51Paris2008Max.ppt

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

Speaker: Andrea Ferrero

Slides ferrero-rd51_14oct08.pdf

16:25 Scintillation readout from THGEMs operating in Xe

Speaker: Joaquim dos Santos

Slides RD51_Paris.pdf RD51_Paris.ppt

16:40 Energy resolution results for Microbulk Micromegas at high energy and high pressure

Speaker: Alfredo Tomas Alquezar

Slides ParisRD51_ATomas.pdf ParisRD51_ATomas.ppt

14:00 → 17:00 WG4: Simulations and Software Tools

14:00 Introduction

Speaker: Rob Veenhof

Slides introduction.pdf

14:15 Avalanche statistics

Speaker: Heinrich SCHINDLER

Slides AvalancheStatisticsRD51Paris.pdf AvalancheStatisticsRD51Paris.pptx

14:45 Geant 4 interface

Speaker: Rob Veenhof

15:00 BEM method

Speaker: Sudeb BHATTACHARYA

Slides supratik.pdf

15:30 Coffee break

16:00 Penning transfer

Speaker: Ozkan SAHIN

Slides Paris_Sahin.pdf Paris_Sahin.ppt

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

Speaker: Kondo GNANVO

Slides RD51Paris14Oct2008_finalVersion.pdf RD51Paris14Oct2008_finalVersion.ppt

16:40 GEM transparency studies

Speaker: Gabriele Croci

Slides GemTransparency_Presentation.pdf GemTransparency_Presentation.ppt

14:00 → 17:00 WG6: Production

14:00 MoU section on intellectual property

Speaker: Bernard Denis (CERN)

Slides B-Denis-RD51-Paris_October08.pdf B-Denis-RD51-Paris_October08.ppt

14:30 Status of licensing negotiations at CERN

Speaker: Emir Kadir Kadir Sirage (Unknown)

Slides E-Sirage-20081014_RD51_SLN.pdf E-Sirage-20081014_RD51_SLN.ppt

14:40 Capabilities of TS/DEM workshop

Speaker: Rui De Oliveira (CERN)

Slides R-De-Oliveira-capacite-DEM.pdf R-De-Oliveira-capacite-DEM.ppt

15:00 Results of the detector dimensions survey

Speaker: Hans Taureg

Slides survey_of_detector_dimensions.pdf survey_of_detector_dimensions.pptx

15:20 Discussion

15:30 Coffee break

16:00 THGEM production in ELTOS company

Speaker: Fulvio Tessarotto

Slides tessarotto_RD51_14_10_2008.pdf tessarotto_RD51_14_10_2008.ppt

16:20 CIRE/SPCI and Prospects for Bulk Micromegas production

Speaker: Mr Tomao

Slides Tomao-Présentation_CEA_oct-08.pdf Tomao-Présentation_CEA_oct-08.ppt

17:00 → 18:30 Collaboration Board meeting

17:00 RD51 Collaboration Meeting agenda (password protected)

agenda http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=42684

20:00 → 22:00 Conference Dinner

Wednesday, 15 October

09:00 → 10:30 Special meeting on MPGD photodetectors

Includes a discussion of Applications to RICH of MPGDs with a CsI photocathode, introduced by Amos Breskin.

09:00 Introduction

Speaker: Amos Breskin

Slides BRESKIN_UV_THGEM_discussion_Paris_15-10-08.pdf BRESKIN_UV_THGEM_discussion_Paris_15-10-08.ppt

09:20 THGEM characterization studies

Speaker: Elena Rocco

Slides paris_elena_rocco.pdf paris_elena_rocco.ppt

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

Speaker: Jaroslav Polak

Slides Jarda_Polak-Paris.pdf Jarda_Polak-Paris.ppt

09:50 Discussion on THGEM application for RICH

Discussion topics: THGEM: hole-layout geometry? THGEM : rim or no rim? THGEM gain: single or double? Gas? Fields? Readout? Stability of gain? Rates, CsI aging?

Speaker: Amos Breskin

09:00 → 10:30 Spill-over from parallel sessions and WG1&2 discussion session

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

Speaker: Jochen Kaminski

Slides V0_WG1.pdf

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

Speaker: Gergo Hamar

Slides HamarG_rd51_meeting_Paris.pdf

09:30 RPCs for time-tagged tracking and GEMs for high sensitivity experiments

Speaker: Rui Ferreira Marques

Slides RFM_RD51_Paris.pdf RFM_RD51_Paris.ppt

09:00 → 10:30 WG5 Electronics discussion session

11:00 → 12:30 Plenary Session - Reports from Working Groups

11:00 WG1: Technological Aspects and Development of New detector Strucures

Speakers: Paul Colas, Silvia Dalla Torre

Slides WG1-summary.pdf WG1-summary.ppt

11:30 WG2: Common Characterization and Physics Issues

Speakers: Harry van der Graaf, Vladimir Peskov

Slides summary.pdf summary.ppt

12:00 WG4: Simulations and Software Tools

Speakers: Alain Bellerive, Rob Veenhof

Slides Summary.pdf

14:00 → 15:30 Plenary Session - Reports from Working Groups

14:00 WG5: MPGD Related Electronics

Speakers: Michael Campbell, Werner Riegler

Slides rd51_paris_2008_electronics_summary.pdf rd51_paris_2008_electronics_summary.pptx

14:30 WG6: Production

Speaker: Hans Taureg

Slides WG6-summary-Paris-v2.pdf WG6-summary-Paris-v2.ppt

15:00 WG7: Common Test Facilities

Speaker: Matteo Alfonsi

Slides ReportFromWG7.pdf ReportFromWG7.ppt

15:30 → 16:00 Conclusions and outlook

15:30 Collaboration Board meeting summary

Speaker: Silvia Dalla Torre

Slides CB_141008_report.pdf CB_141008_report.pptx

15:45 Workshop summary

Speakers: Leszek Ropelewski, Maxim Titiov