3rd LHC Detector Alignment Workshop

15 Jun 2009, 09:00 → 16 Jun 2009, 18:15 Europe/Zurich

40-S2-A01 (CERN)

Adam Jacholkowski (Universita di Catania), Andrea Dainese (Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro), Florian Bauer (DAPNIA), Jochen Schieck (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik), Martin Weber (RWTH Aachen University), Rainer Mankel (DESY/CERN), Salvador Marti i Garcia (IFIC-Valencia (UV-CSIC)), Silvia Borghi (University of Glasgow), Wouter Hulsbergen

The goal of the Workshop is to provide a forum to share ideas and information on the issues related to alignment of detectors, with particular emphasis on tracking detectors. Information from previous Workshops: 1st LHC Detector Alignment Workshop Proceedings of the 1st LHC Detector Alignment Workshop 2nd LHC Detector Alignment Workshop

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Monday 15 June

Welcome

1 Welcome

Speaker: Martin Weber (RWTH Aachen University)

Slides 2009_06_15_LHCDetAliWS_Introduction.pdf

Recent Improvements in Alignment Algorithms I

2 Millepede 2009

Speaker: Volker Blobel (UHH - Institut fuer Experimental Physik-Universitaet Hamburg-Un)

Slides cernali.pdf

3 Numerical methods for solving large linear systems

Speaker: Prof. Paolo Bientinesi (RWTH Aachen University, AICES)

Slides Bientinesi.pdf.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

LHC Experience with first data: Cosmics and first beam I

4 ALICE Inner Tracking System: first alignment results with cosmics

Speaker: Sandra Moretto (Istituto Nazionale de Fisica Nucleare (INFN))

Slides SM_ITSalig.ppt

5 Validation and tests for the alignment of the ALICE Inner Tracking System

Speaker: Andrea Rossi (Universita & INFN, Trieste)

Slides AliceITS_Rossi.pdf

6 ATLAS Inner Detector Alignment with Cosmics

Speaker: Jochen Schieck (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)

Slides LHCWorkshop_Schieck.pdf

12:30 Lunch

LHC Experience with first data: Cosmics and first beam II

7 CMS Tracker alignment strategy with cosmic muons

Speaker: Andrei Gritsan (Rowland Dept. of Phys. and Astron.-Johns Hopkins University-Unkn)

Slides cms-tkal-strategy.pdf

8 CMS Tracker alignment results with cosmic muons

Speaker: Ernesto Migliore (Universita degli Studi di Torino-Universita & INFN, Torino-Unkno)

Slides cms-tkal-results.pdf

9 LHCb silicon detector alignment with first LHC beam induced track

Speaker: Christophe Salzmann (Physik-Institut - Universitaet Zuerich)

Slides LHCalignmentWS.pdf

10 LHCb T-station detectors alignment with cosmics

Speaker: Marc Deissenroth (University of Heidelberg)

Slides 3rdLHCAlignmentWS062009_v3.pdf

15:30 Coffee Break

LHC Experience with first data: Cosmics and first beam III

11 Status of the ALICE Muon Spectrometer alignment

Speaker: Javier Castillo Castellanos (Service de Physique Nucleaire (SPhN)-IRFU-cea - Centre d'Etudes)

Slides muonAlignLAW0609.ppt

12 ATLAS Muon spectrometer alignment (hardware and cosmics)

Speaker: Christoph Amelung (Brandeis University)

Slides talk-alignws-jun09.pdf

13 Hardware-based alignment of the CMS muon system

Speaker: Gervasio Gomez (Instituto de Física de Cantabria)

Slides LHCAlignWkshp_CMS_Muon_HW_Align.ppt

14 Alignment of the CMS muon system with beam halo and cosmic muon tracks

Speaker: Dr Jim Pivarski (Texas A&M University)

Slides pivarski_corrected_p14_axis_label.pdf pivarski.pdf

15 LHCb Muon detector alignment with cosmics

Speaker: Silvia Pozzi (INFN, Sezione di Ferrara-Universita di Ferrara-Unknown)

Slides LHCbMuon_LHCAlignment2009.pdf

19:30 Dinner at Restaurant 2 (DSR)

Tuesday 16 June

Recent Improvements in Alignment Algorithms II

16 The Kalman filter alignment algorithm

Speaker: Dr Edmund Widl (Institut für Hochenergiephysik (HEPHY Vienna))

Slides LHC_Alignment_Workshop_2009.pdf

17 Rigorous integration of Kalman filter track fit into alignment

Speaker: Wouter Hulsbergen (NIKHEF-Unknown-Unknown)

Slides wouter_alignws2009.odp wouter_alignws2009.pdf

Impact of Misalignment on Physics I

18 Impact of Alignment on Physics Analysis with the ATLAS Detector

Speaker: Ben Cooper (Queen Mary University of London)

Slides misalignphysimpact_bencooper.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

Impact of Misalignment on Physics II

19 Impact of misalignment on track and heavy-flavour reconstruction with the Alice Detector

Speaker: Andrea Dainese (Universita degli Studi di Padova)

Slides DaineseAlignWS3.pdf DaineseAlignWS3.ppt

20 CMS alignment implications for physics performance

Speaker: Nhan Tran (Johns Hopkins University)

Slides lhcalignment_nvt_v2.pdf

21 Impact of Tracker Misalignment on the CMS b-Tagging Performance

Speaker: Mr Christophe Saout (CMS, CERN & IEKP, Uni Karlsruhe)

Slides align-btag.pdf

22 Impact of misalignment on beauty physics at LHCb

Speaker: Eduardo Rodrigues (Uni. of Glasgow)

Slides 2009-06-16_LHCDetAlignWorkshop.pdf

12:40 Lunch

Alignment framework & integration into overall calibration scheme

23 ALICE Integration of the alignment in the general calibration strategy

Speaker: Cvetan Cheshkov (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))

Slides align_workshop_14062009.pdf

24 ATLAS Atlas Alignment framework and integration

Speaker: Andrea Formica (DAPNIA)

Slides Alignment_Integration_in_SW_v1.pdf

25 Integration of Alignment in Overall CMS Calibration Workflow

Speaker: Gero Flucke (DESY)

Slides flucke_alignWS2009.pdf

26 The LHCb alignment and alignment monitoring framework

Speaker: Johan Blouw (Ruprech-Karls-University of Heidelberg)

Slides blouw.pdf

15:45 Coffee Break

Alignment aspects for the LHC Upgrade

27 ATLAS Inner Detector Upgrade

Speaker: Sergio Gonzalez Sevilla (Section de Physique-Dept. de Phys. Nucl. et Corpuscul. (DPNC)-Un)

Slides sergio_3rdAliWS_160609.pdf

28 ATLAS Muon Detector Upgrade

Speakers: Ludovico Pontecorvo (INFN, Sezione di Roma I-Universita & INFN, Roma I-Unknown), Tatsuo Kawamoto (International Center for Elementary Particle Physics ICEPP)

Slides MuonUpgrade20090616.pdf

29 Possible layouts of an upgraded CMS tracker

Speaker: Duccio Abbaneo (CERN)

Slides D_Abbaneo.pdf D_Abbaneo.ppt

30 Discussion

Workshop Closing

slides Closing.pdf