MPGD2009

Jun 12, 2009, 8:00 AM → Jun 17, 2009, 7:55 PM Europe/Zurich

Orthodox Academy of Crete

1st Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors International Conference (12-15 June 2009), followed by RD51 Collaboration Meeting (16-17 June 2009).

Abstracts MPGD2009-Abstracts.pdf

Abstracts list MPGD2009-Abstracts-list.pdf

Scientific Program MPGD2009-program-v8.pdf

Fri, June 12

8:30 AM → 10:40 AM MPGD09

8:30 AM Welcome

8:45 AM The LHC Luminosity Upgrade and Related ATLAS Detector Plans

Speaker: Frederik Hartjes (NIKHEF)

Slides LHC_and_Atlas_Upgrade.pdf LHC_and_Atlas_Upgrade.ppt

9:25 AM A proposal for GridPix Tracker for the ATLAS sLHC upgrade

Speaker: Anatoli Romaniouk (Moscow Physical Engineering Institute (MePhl))

Slides SLHC_GridPixel_Tracker.pdf SLHC_GridPixel_Tracker.ppt

9:50 AM Making spherical GEMs

Speaker: Serge Duarte Pinto (CERN)

Slides 090612Crete.pdf

10:15 AM Poster Session 1

Posters 6,7,17,50,16

Speaker: 7, 15, 16,17, 50

Poster Marco_Villa.pdf

10:40 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 12:40 PM MPGD09

11:00 AM Development of Hard X-ray Detector with GEM

Speaker: Shoji Uno (KEK, Tsukuba)

Slides S.Uno.pdf S.Uno.ppt

11:25 AM New pixellized Micromegas detector for the COMPASS experiment

Speaker: Damien Neyret (DAPNIA)

Slides presentation_mpgd2009_pixelMM.pdf

11:50 AM MPGDs in Compton imaging with liquid-xenon

Speaker: Samuel Duval (Subatech UMR 6457)

Slides MPGDs in Compton imaging with liquid-xenon

12:15 PM Beam tracking with low pressure gaseous detectors in nuclear physics

Speaker: Julien Pancin (Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA-Saclay))

Slides mpgd2009_pancin.pdf

12:40 PM → 4:00 PM Lunch break

4:00 PM → 5:50 PM MPGD09

4:00 PM ILC Detectors and Physics

Speaker: Klaus Desch (University of Bonn)

Slides desch_kolympari_120609.pdf desch_kolympari_120609.ppt

4:40 PM Digital Hadron Calorimetry for the International Linear Collider using GEM technologies

Speaker: Andrew White (University of Texas at Arlington)

Slides A_White_GEM_DHCAL.pdf A_White_GEM_DHCAL.ppt

5:05 PM Beam test and X-ray study of a Micromegas DHCAL Prototype

Speaker: Maximilien CHEFDEVILLE (LAPP, Annecy)

Slides MPGD_09_Chefdeville.pdf MPGD_09_Chefdeville.ppt

5:30 PM Poster session 2

51, 18, 43, 44, 54

Speaker: 18, 43, 44, 54

Slides 54_gemreadout.pdf

5:55 PM → 6:15 PM Coffee break

6:15 PM → 8:20 PM MPGD09

6:15 PM Progress in the deployment of a S-RETGEM-based detector for an early forest fire warning system

Speaker: Vladimir Peskov (Pole Universitaire Leonardo de Vinci)

Slides Peskov_talk_in_Greec_final.pdf Peskov_talk_in_Greec_final.ppt

6:40 PM Advancements of labeled radio-pharmaceutics imaging with the PIM-MPGD

Speaker: Jerome DONNARD (Subatech UMR 6457)

Slides Donnard_MPGD2009.pdf Donnard_MPGD2009.ppt

7:05 PM Development of a large area VUV sensitive gas PMT with GEM/uPIC

Speaker: Hiroyuki Sekiya (University of Tokyo)

Slides MPGD2009sekiya_dist.pdf MPGD2009sekiya_dist.pptx

7:30 PM Companies Session

8:30 PM → 9:30 PM Dinner

Sat, June 13

9:00 AM → 10:55 AM MPGD09

9:00 AM RD50 recent developments

Speaker: Mara Bruzzi (Dipartimento di Fisica)

Slides RD50_recent_developments.pdf RD50_recent_developments.ppt

9:40 AM The STAR Forward GEM Tracker

Speaker: Bernd SURROW (MIT)

Slides The_STAR_Forward_GEM_Tracker.pdf

10:05 AM Beam tests of the Micromegas ILC-TPC Large Prototype

Speaker: David Attie (CEA)

Slides Beam_tests_of_the_Micromegas_ILC-TPC_Large_Prototype.ppt

10:30 AM Poster Session 3

5,12,23,25,55

Speaker: 5,23,25,55,51

10:55 AM → 11:15 AM break

11:15 AM → 12:55 PM MPGD09

11:15 AM Beam test results of a GEM Large TPC Prototype readout by a new ALTRO electronics

Speaker: Takeshi MATSUDA (KEK/IPNS & DESY/FLC)

Slides Beam_test_results_of_a_GEM_Large_TPC_Prototype_readout_by_a_new_ALTRO_electronics.pdf

11:40 AM Time Projection Chamber with Triple GEM and Highly Granulated Pixel Readout

Speaker: Jochen Kaminski (Universität Bonn)

Slides kaminski.pdf

12:05 PM Performance study of the first TPC for the T2K experiment

Speaker: Jerome BEUCHER (CEA/DSM/IRFU)

Slides Performance_study_of_the_first_TPC_for_the_T2K_experiment.pdf

12:30 PM Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) application for the TPC gating

Speaker: Gabriele Croci (INFN, Sezione di Milano - Universita & INFN, Milano)

Slides GATING_GEM_MPGD2009.pdf GATING_GEM_MPGD2009.ppt

12:55 PM → 4:00 PM Lunch break

4:00 PM → 5:55 PM MPGD09

4:00 PM CERN large size MPGD production status

Speaker: Rui De Oliveira (CERN)

Slides CERN_large_size_MPGD_production_status.pdf CERN_large_size_MPGD_production_status.pptx

4:40 PM Development and performance of Microbulk Micromegas Detectors

Speaker: Thomas PAPAEVANGELOU (CEA/IRFU)

Slides Microbulk_MPGD2009.pdf Microbulk_MPGD2009.pptx

5:05 PM The measurement of the basic feature of Thick-GEM and Resistive-GEM

Speaker: Ryohji Akimoto (University of Tokyo)

Slides The_measurement_of_the_basic_feature_of_Thick-GEM_and_Resistive-GEM.pdf The_measurement_of_the_basic_feature_of_Thick-GEM_and_Resistive-GEM.ppt

5:30 PM Poster Session 4

33, 34, 48, 60, 61

Speaker: 33, 34, 48, 60, 61

5:55 PM → 6:15 PM Coffee break

6:15 PM → 8:25 PM MPGD09

6:15 PM Development of Micro-Mesh Micro-Pixel Chamber

Speaker: Atsuhiko Ochi (Ｋｏｂｅ　Ｕｎｉｖｅｒｓｉｔｙ)

Slides m3pic_mpgd09_ochi.ppt

6:40 PM Study on transparent electrode ITO-MSGC for Gas Proportional Scintillation counter

Speaker: Takeshi Fujiwara (The University of Tokyo)

Slides Fujiwara_MPGD2009_final.pdf Fujiwara_MPGD2009_final.ppt

7:05 PM THGEM operation in Ne and Ne/CH4 mixtures

Speaker: Marco Cortesi (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Slides Cortesi_for_MPGD2009.pdf

7:30 PM Micro Capillary Technology for Fast Neutron Detection and Imaging

Speaker: Mark GROHMANN (Sandia National Labs)

Slides Neutron_Det_Crete_Final.ppt

7:55 PM Special Lecture

9:30 PM → 10:30 PM Conference Dinner

Sun, June 14

9:00 AM → 10:50 AM MPGD09

9:30 AM X-ray polarimetry in Astrophysics with Gas Pixel Detectors

Speaker: Fabio Muleri (INAF)

Slides Muleri_MPDG2009.pdf

9:55 AM X-Ray Polarimetry in Xenon Gas Filled Detectors

Speaker: Liliana CARITA (University of Coimbra)

Slides polarimetry_xenon.pdf polarimetry_xenon.ppt

10:20 AM Poster Session 5

2, 56, 42, 39, 20, 22

Speaker: 2, 56, 42, 39, 20

10:50 AM → 11:05 AM Coffee break

11:05 AM → 12:45 PM MPGD09

11:05 AM Development of a high resolution Micro Pattern Gas Detector with wide readout pads

Speaker: Madhu DIXIT (TRIUMF and Carleton University)

Slides Dixit_MPGD2009.pdf Dixit_MPGD2009.ppt

11:30 AM A prototype of a directional detector for non-baryonic dark matter search: MIMAC ( Micro-TPC Matrix of Chambers)

Speaker: Cyril Grignon (LPSC (CNRS))

Slides grignon_mpgd2009.pdf

11:55 AM The ATLAS muon Micromegas R&D project

Speaker: Konstantinos Nikolopoulos (University of Athens)

Slides nikolopoulos_MPGD2009.pdf

12:20 PM Micromegas detectors in the CAST experiment

Speaker: Javier GALAN LACARRA (Instituto de Fisica Nuclear y Altas Energias - Facultad de Cienc)

Slides mpgd2009.J.Galan.pdf

12:45 PM → 4:00 PM Lunch break

4:00 PM → 5:30 PM MPGD09

4:00 PM MPGD Software Developments

Speaker: Rob VEENHOF (University of Wisconsin)

Slides Veenhof.pdf

4:40 PM Electrostatics of Micromesh-Based Detectors

Speaker: Supratik Mukhopadhyay (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)

Slides SupratikMPGD2009.pdf

5:05 PM Present status of R&D for the GEM-TPC of PANDA

Speaker: Xiaodong ZHANG (TUM E18)

Slides zhang-xd.pdf

5:30 PM → 5:50 PM Coffee break

5:50 PM → 8:00 PM MPGD09

5:50 PM Development of a THGEM-based photon detector for RICH applications

Speaker: Fulvio TESSAROTTO (INFN Trieste)

Slides tessarotto_MPGD2009.pdf tessarotto_MPGD2009.ppt

6:15 PM Thin Bulk Micromegas for CLAS12

Speaker: Sebastien Procureur (Service de Physique Nucleaire (SPhN))

Slides MPGD09.pdf MPGD09.ppt

6:40 PM MicroHole & Strip Plate Photosensor Operating in HpXe

Speaker: Carlos AZEVEDO (University of Aveiro)

Slides CDRAzevedo_presentation.pdf

7:05 PM Summary

Speaker: Ioanis Giomataris (Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA-Saclay))

Slides MPGD2009-summary.pdf MPGD2009-summary.ppt

7:30 PM Special Lecture

8:30 PM → 9:30 PM Dinner

Mon, June 15

8:00 AM → 6:00 PM Excursion

Tue, June 16

8:00 AM → 6:00 PM RD51

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Wed, June 17

8:00 AM → 2:00 PM RD51

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