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, June 15, 2009 (9:00 AM) to Tuesday, June 16, 2009 (6:15 PM)
CERN (40-S2-A01)

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

Jun 15, 2009

Jun 16, 2009

9:00 AM	Welcome (until 9:15 AM)
9:00 AM	Welcome - Martin Weber (RWTH Aachen University) Slides
9:15 AM	Recent Improvements in Alignment Algorithms I (until 10:20 AM)
9:15 AM	Millepede 2009 - Volker Blobel (UHH - Institut fuer Experimental Physik-Universitaet Hamburg-Un) Slides
9:45 AM	Numerical methods for solving large linear systems - Prof. Paolo Bientinesi (RWTH Aachen University, AICES) Slides
10:30 AM	--- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM	LHC Experience with first data: Cosmics and first beam I (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM	ALICE Inner Tracking System: first alignment results with cosmics - Sandra Moretto (Istituto Nazionale de Fisica Nucleare (INFN)) Slides
11:25 AM	Validation and tests for the alignment of the ALICE Inner Tracking System - Andrea Rossi (Universita & INFN, Trieste) Slides
11:50 AM	ATLAS Inner Detector Alignment with Cosmics - Jochen Schieck (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik) Slides

9:00 AM	Recent Improvements in Alignment Algorithms II (until 9:50 AM)
9:00 AM	The Kalman filter alignment algorithm - Dr Edmund Widl (Institut für Hochenergiephysik (HEPHY Vienna)) Slides
9:25 AM	Rigorous integration of Kalman filter track fit into alignment - Wouter Hulsbergen (NIKHEF-Unknown-Unknown) Slides
9:50 AM	Impact of Misalignment on Physics I (until 10:30 AM)
9:50 AM	Impact of Alignment on Physics Analysis with the ATLAS Detector - Ben Cooper (Queen Mary University of London) Slides
10:30 AM	--- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM	Impact of Misalignment on Physics II (until 12:35 PM)
11:00 AM	Impact of misalignment on track and heavy-flavour reconstruction with the Alice Detector - Andrea Dainese (Universita degli Studi di Padova) Slides
11:30 AM	CMS alignment implications for physics performance - Nhan Tran (Johns Hopkins University) Slides
11:50 AM	Impact of Tracker Misalignment on the CMS b-Tagging Performance - Mr Christophe Saout (CMS, CERN & IEKP, Uni Karlsruhe) Slides
12:10 PM	Impact of misalignment on beauty physics at LHCb - Eduardo Rodrigues (Uni. of Glasgow) Slides

12:30 PM	--- Lunch ---
2:00 PM	LHC Experience with first data: Cosmics and first beam II (until 3:30 PM)
2:00 PM	CMS Tracker alignment strategy with cosmic muons - Andrei Gritsan (Rowland Dept. of Phys. and Astron.-Johns Hopkins University-Unkn) Slides
2:20 PM	CMS Tracker alignment results with cosmic muons - Ernesto Migliore (Universita degli Studi di Torino-Universita & INFN, Torino-Unkno) Slides
2:40 PM	LHCb silicon detector alignment with first LHC beam induced track - Christophe Salzmann (Physik-Institut - Universitaet Zuerich) Slides
3:10 PM	LHCb T-station detectors alignment with cosmics - Marc Deissenroth (University of Heidelberg) Slides
3:30 PM	--- Coffee Break ---
4:00 PM	LHC Experience with first data: Cosmics and first beam III (until 6:00 PM)
4:00 PM	Status of the ALICE Muon Spectrometer alignment - Javier Castillo Castellanos (Service de Physique Nucleaire (SPhN)-IRFU-cea - Centre d'Etudes) Slides
4:25 PM	ATLAS Muon spectrometer alignment (hardware and cosmics) - Christoph Amelung (Brandeis University) Slides
5:00 PM	Hardware-based alignment of the CMS muon system - Gervasio Gomez (Instituto de Física de Cantabria) Slides
5:20 PM	Alignment of the CMS muon system with beam halo and cosmic muon tracks - Dr Jim Pivarski (Texas A&M University) Slides
5:40 PM	LHCb Muon detector alignment with cosmics - Silvia Pozzi (INFN, Sezione di Ferrara-Universita di Ferrara-Unknown) Slides
7:30 PM	--- Dinner at Restaurant 2 (DSR) ---

12:40 PM	--- Lunch ---
2:00 PM	Alignment framework & integration into overall calibration scheme (until 3:40 PM)
2:00 PM	ALICE Integration of the alignment in the general calibration strategy - Cvetan Cheshkov (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)) Slides
2:20 PM	ATLAS Atlas Alignment framework and integration - Andrea Formica (DAPNIA) Slides
2:50 PM	Integration of Alignment in Overall CMS Calibration Workflow - Gero Flucke (DESY) Slides
3:20 PM	The LHCb alignment and alignment monitoring framework - Johan Blouw (Ruprech-Karls-University of Heidelberg) Slides
3:45 PM	--- Coffee Break ---
4:15 PM	Alignment aspects for the LHC Upgrade (until 5:45 PM)
4:15 PM	ATLAS Inner Detector Upgrade - Sergio Gonzalez Sevilla (Section de Physique-Dept. de Phys. Nucl. et Corpuscul. (DPNC)-Un) Slides
4:35 PM	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) Slides
4:55 PM	Possible layouts of an upgraded CMS tracker - Duccio Abbaneo (CERN) Slides
5:25 PM	Discussion
5:45 PM	Workshop Closing (until 6:00 PM) slides

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