MPGD2009

12 Jun 2009, 08:00 → 17 Jun 2009, 19:55 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

Friday 12 June

MPGD09

1 Welcome

2 The LHC Luminosity Upgrade and Related ATLAS Detector Plans

Speaker: Frederik Hartjes (NIKHEF)

Slides LHC_and_Atlas_Upgrade.pdf LHC_and_Atlas_Upgrade.ppt

3 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

4 Making spherical GEMs

Speaker: Serge Duarte Pinto (CERN)

Slides 090612Crete.pdf

5 Poster Session 1

Posters 6,7,17,50,16

Speaker: 7, 15, 16,17, 50

Poster Marco_Villa.pdf

10:40 Coffee break

MPGD09

6 Development of Hard X-ray Detector with GEM

Speaker: Shoji Uno (KEK, Tsukuba)

Slides S.Uno.pdf S.Uno.ppt

7 New pixellized Micromegas detector for the COMPASS experiment

Speaker: Damien Neyret (DAPNIA)

Slides presentation_mpgd2009_pixelMM.pdf

8 MPGDs in Compton imaging with liquid-xenon

Speaker: Samuel Duval (Subatech UMR 6457)

Slides MPGDs in Compton imaging with liquid-xenon

9 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 Lunch break

MPGD09

10 ILC Detectors and Physics

Speaker: Klaus Desch (University of Bonn)

Slides desch_kolympari_120609.pdf desch_kolympari_120609.ppt

11 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

12 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

13 Poster session 2

51, 18, 43, 44, 54

Speaker: 18, 43, 44, 54

Slides 54_gemreadout.pdf

17:55 Coffee break

MPGD09

14 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

15 Advancements of labeled radio-pharmaceutics imaging with the PIM-MPGD

Speaker: Jerome DONNARD (Subatech UMR 6457)

Slides Donnard_MPGD2009.pdf Donnard_MPGD2009.ppt

16 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

17 Companies Session

20:30 Dinner

Saturday 13 June

MPGD09

18 RD50 recent developments

Speaker: Mara Bruzzi (Dipartimento di Fisica)

Slides RD50_recent_developments.pdf RD50_recent_developments.ppt

19 The STAR Forward GEM Tracker

Speaker: Bernd SURROW (MIT)

Slides The_STAR_Forward_GEM_Tracker.pdf

20 Beam tests of the Micromegas ILC-TPC Large Prototype

Speaker: David Attie (CEA)

Slides Beam_tests_of_the_Micromegas_ILC-TPC_Large_Prototype.ppt

21 Poster Session 3

5,12,23,25,55

Speaker: 5,23,25,55,51

10:55 break

MPGD09

22 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

23 Time Projection Chamber with Triple GEM and Highly Granulated Pixel Readout

Speaker: Jochen Kaminski (Universität Bonn)

Slides kaminski.pdf

24 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

25 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 Lunch break

MPGD09

26 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

27 Development and performance of Microbulk Micromegas Detectors

Speaker: Thomas PAPAEVANGELOU (CEA/IRFU)

Slides Microbulk_MPGD2009.pdf Microbulk_MPGD2009.pptx

28 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

29 Poster Session 4

33, 34, 48, 60, 61

Speaker: 33, 34, 48, 60, 61

17:55 Coffee break

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30 Development of Micro-Mesh Micro-Pixel Chamber

Speaker: Atsuhiko Ochi (Ｋｏｂｅ　Ｕｎｉｖｅｒｓｉｔｙ)

Slides m3pic_mpgd09_ochi.ppt

31 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

32 THGEM operation in Ne and Ne/CH4 mixtures

Speaker: Marco Cortesi (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Slides Cortesi_for_MPGD2009.pdf

33 Micro Capillary Technology for Fast Neutron Detection and Imaging

Speaker: Mark GROHMANN (Sandia National Labs)

Slides Neutron_Det_Crete_Final.ppt

34 Special Lecture

21:30 Conference Dinner

Sunday 14 June

MPGD09

35 X-ray polarimetry in Astrophysics with Gas Pixel Detectors

Speaker: Fabio Muleri (INAF)

Slides Muleri_MPDG2009.pdf

36 X-Ray Polarimetry in Xenon Gas Filled Detectors

Speaker: Liliana CARITA (University of Coimbra)

Slides polarimetry_xenon.pdf polarimetry_xenon.ppt

37 Poster Session 5

2, 56, 42, 39, 20, 22

Speaker: 2, 56, 42, 39, 20

10:50 Coffee break

MPGD09

38 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

39 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

40 The ATLAS muon Micromegas R&D project

Speaker: Konstantinos Nikolopoulos (University of Athens)

Slides nikolopoulos_MPGD2009.pdf

41 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 Lunch break

MPGD09

42 MPGD Software Developments

Speaker: Rob VEENHOF (University of Wisconsin)

Slides Veenhof.pdf

43 Electrostatics of Micromesh-Based Detectors

Speaker: Supratik Mukhopadhyay (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)

Slides SupratikMPGD2009.pdf

44 Present status of R&D for the GEM-TPC of PANDA

Speaker: Xiaodong ZHANG (TUM E18)

Slides zhang-xd.pdf

17:30 Coffee break

MPGD09

45 Development of a THGEM-based photon detector for RICH applications

Speaker: Fulvio TESSAROTTO (INFN Trieste)

Slides tessarotto_MPGD2009.pdf tessarotto_MPGD2009.ppt

46 Thin Bulk Micromegas for CLAS12

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

Slides MPGD09.pdf MPGD09.ppt

47 MicroHole & Strip Plate Photosensor Operating in HpXe

Speaker: Carlos AZEVEDO (University of Aveiro)

Slides CDRAzevedo_presentation.pdf

48 Summary

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

Slides MPGD2009-summary.pdf MPGD2009-summary.ppt

49 Special Lecture

20:30 Dinner

Monday 15 June

08:00 Excursion

Tuesday 16 June

RD51

link http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceOtherViews.py?view=standard&confId=51279

Wednesday 17 June

RD51

link http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceOtherViews.py?view=standard&confId=51279