Name: 3rd LHC Detector Alignment Workshop
Start: 2009-06-15T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2009-06-16T18:15:00+02:00
Location: CERN

3rd LHC Detector Alignment Workshop

from Monday, 15 June 2009 (09:00) to Tuesday, 16 June 2009 (18:15)

Monday, 15 June 2009
09:00 Welcome
09:00 - 09:15
Room: 40-S2-A01
Contributions

09:00 Welcome - Martin Weber (RWTH Aachen University)
09:15 Recent Improvements in Alignment Algorithms I
09:15 - 10:20
Room: 40-S2-A01
Contributions

09:15 Millepede 2009 - Volker Blobel (UHH - Institut fuer Experimental Physik-Universitaet Hamburg-Un)

09:45 Numerical methods for solving large linear systems - Paolo Bientinesi (RWTH Aachen University, AICES)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: 40-S2-A01
11:00 LHC Experience with first data: Cosmics and first beam I
11:00 - 12:30
Room: 40-S2-A01
Contributions

11:00 ALICE Inner Tracking System: first alignment results with cosmics - Sandra Moretto (Istituto Nazionale de Fisica Nucleare (INFN))

11:25 Validation and tests for the alignment of the ALICE Inner Tracking System - Andrea Rossi (Universita & INFN, Trieste)

11:50 ATLAS Inner Detector Alignment with Cosmics - Jochen Schieck (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: 40-S2-A01
14:00 LHC Experience with first data: Cosmics and first beam II
14:00 - 15:30
Room: 40-S2-A01
Contributions

14:00 CMS Tracker alignment strategy with cosmic muons - Andrei Gritsan (Rowland Dept. of Phys. and Astron.-Johns Hopkins University-Unkn)

14:20 CMS Tracker alignment results with cosmic muons - Ernesto Migliore (Universita degli Studi di Torino-Universita & INFN, Torino-Unkno)

14:40 LHCb silicon detector alignment with first LHC beam induced track - Christophe Salzmann (Physik-Institut - Universitaet Zuerich)

15:10 LHCb T-station detectors alignment with cosmics - Marc Deissenroth (University of Heidelberg)
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: 40-S2-A01
16:00 LHC Experience with first data: Cosmics and first beam III
16:00 - 18:00
Room: 40-S2-A01
Contributions

16:00 Status of the ALICE Muon Spectrometer alignment - Javier Castillo Castellanos (Service de Physique Nucleaire (SPhN)-IRFU-cea - Centre d'Etudes)

16:25 ATLAS Muon spectrometer alignment (hardware and cosmics) - Christoph Amelung (Brandeis University)

17:00 Hardware-based alignment of the CMS muon system - Gervasio Gomez (Instituto de Física de Cantabria)

17:20 Alignment of the CMS muon system with beam halo and cosmic muon tracks - Jim Pivarski (Texas A&M University)

17:40 LHCb Muon detector alignment with cosmics - Silvia Pozzi (INFN, Sezione di Ferrara-Universita di Ferrara-Unknown)
19:30 Dinner at Restaurant 2 (DSR)
Dinner at Restaurant 2 (DSR)
19:30 - 22:00
Room: 40-S2-A01
Tuesday, 16 June 2009
09:00 Recent Improvements in Alignment Algorithms II
09:00 - 09:50
Room: 40-S2-A01
Contributions

09:00 The Kalman filter alignment algorithm - Edmund Widl (Institut für Hochenergiephysik (HEPHY Vienna))

09:25 Rigorous integration of Kalman filter track fit into alignment - Wouter Hulsbergen (NIKHEF-Unknown-Unknown)
09:50 Impact of Misalignment on Physics I
09:50 - 10:30
Room: 40-S2-A01
Contributions

09:50 Impact of Alignment on Physics Analysis with the ATLAS Detector - Ben Cooper (Queen Mary University of London)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: 40-S2-A01
11:00 Impact of Misalignment on Physics II
11:00 - 12:35
Room: 40-S2-A01
Contributions

11:00 Impact of misalignment on track and heavy-flavour reconstruction with the Alice Detector - Andrea Dainese (Universita degli Studi di Padova)

11:30 CMS alignment implications for physics performance - Nhan Tran (Johns Hopkins University)

11:50 Impact of Tracker Misalignment on the CMS b-Tagging Performance - Christophe Saout (CMS, CERN & IEKP, Uni Karlsruhe)

12:10 Impact of misalignment on beauty physics at LHCb - Eduardo Rodrigues (Uni. of Glasgow)
12:40 Lunch
Lunch
12:40 - 14:00
Room: 40-S2-A01
14:00 Alignment framework & integration into overall calibration scheme
14:00 - 15:40
Room: 40-S2-A01
Contributions

14:00 ALICE Integration of the alignment in the general calibration strategy - Cvetan Cheshkov (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))

14:20 ATLAS Atlas Alignment framework and integration - Andrea Formica (DAPNIA)

14:50 Integration of Alignment in Overall CMS Calibration Workflow - Gero Flucke (DESY)

15:20 The LHCb alignment and alignment monitoring framework - Johan Blouw (Ruprech-Karls-University of Heidelberg)
15:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:15
Room: 40-S2-A01
16:15 Alignment aspects for the LHC Upgrade
16:15 - 17:45
Room: 40-S2-A01
Contributions

16:15 ATLAS Inner Detector Upgrade - Sergio Gonzalez Sevilla (Section de Physique-Dept. de Phys. Nucl. et Corpuscul. (DPNC)-Un)

16:35 ATLAS Muon Detector Upgrade - Ludovico Pontecorvo (INFN, Sezione di Roma I-Universita & INFN, Roma I-Unknown) Tatsuo Kawamoto (International Center for Elementary Particle Physics ICEPP)

16:55 Possible layouts of an upgraded CMS tracker - Duccio Abbaneo (CERN)

17:25 Discussion
17:45 Workshop Closing

17:45 - 18:00
Room: 40-S2-A01