3rd LHC Detector Alignment Workshop

Jun 15, 2009, 9:00 AM → Jun 16, 2009, 6:15 PM 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

pictures Alignment.png

Poster Poster_Blue_A3_2009.jpg

Mon, June 15

9:00 AM → 9:15 AM Welcome

9:00 AM Welcome

Speaker: Martin Weber (RWTH Aachen University)

Slides 2009_06_15_LHCDetAliWS_Introduction.pdf

9:15 AM → 10:20 AM Recent Improvements in Alignment Algorithms I

9:15 AM Millepede 2009

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

Slides cernali.pdf

9:45 AM Numerical methods for solving large linear systems

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

Slides Bientinesi.pdf.pdf

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM LHC Experience with first data: Cosmics and first beam I

11:00 AM ALICE Inner Tracking System: first alignment results with cosmics

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

Slides SM_ITSalig.ppt

11:25 AM Validation and tests for the alignment of the ALICE Inner Tracking System

Speaker: Andrea Rossi (Universita & INFN, Trieste)

Slides AliceITS_Rossi.pdf

11:50 AM ATLAS Inner Detector Alignment with Cosmics

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

Slides LHCWorkshop_Schieck.pdf

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM LHC Experience with first data: Cosmics and first beam II

2:00 PM 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

2:20 PM CMS Tracker alignment results with cosmic muons

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

Slides cms-tkal-results.pdf

2:40 PM LHCb silicon detector alignment with first LHC beam induced track

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

Slides LHCalignmentWS.pdf

3:10 PM LHCb T-station detectors alignment with cosmics

Speaker: Marc Deissenroth (University of Heidelberg)

Slides 3rdLHCAlignmentWS062009_v3.pdf

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM → 6:00 PM LHC Experience with first data: Cosmics and first beam III

4:00 PM Status of the ALICE Muon Spectrometer alignment

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

Slides muonAlignLAW0609.ppt

4:25 PM ATLAS Muon spectrometer alignment (hardware and cosmics)

Speaker: Christoph Amelung (Brandeis University)

Slides talk-alignws-jun09.pdf

5:00 PM Hardware-based alignment of the CMS muon system

Speaker: Gervasio Gomez (Instituto de Física de Cantabria)

Slides LHCAlignWkshp_CMS_Muon_HW_Align.ppt

5:20 PM 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

5:40 PM LHCb Muon detector alignment with cosmics

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

Slides LHCbMuon_LHCAlignment2009.pdf

7:30 PM → 10:00 PM Dinner at Restaurant 2 (DSR)

Tue, June 16

9:00 AM → 9:50 AM Recent Improvements in Alignment Algorithms II

9:00 AM The Kalman filter alignment algorithm

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

Slides LHC_Alignment_Workshop_2009.pdf

9:25 AM Rigorous integration of Kalman filter track fit into alignment

Speaker: Wouter Hulsbergen (NIKHEF-Unknown-Unknown)

Slides wouter_alignws2009.odp wouter_alignws2009.pdf

9:50 AM → 10:30 AM Impact of Misalignment on Physics I

9:50 AM Impact of Alignment on Physics Analysis with the ATLAS Detector

Speaker: Ben Cooper (Queen Mary University of London)

Slides misalignphysimpact_bencooper.pdf

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:35 PM Impact of Misalignment on Physics II

11:00 AM 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

11:30 AM CMS alignment implications for physics performance

Speaker: Nhan Tran (Johns Hopkins University)

Slides lhcalignment_nvt_v2.pdf

11:50 AM Impact of Tracker Misalignment on the CMS b-Tagging Performance

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

Slides align-btag.pdf

12:10 PM Impact of misalignment on beauty physics at LHCb

Speaker: Eduardo Rodrigues (Uni. of Glasgow)

Slides 2009-06-16_LHCDetAlignWorkshop.pdf

12:40 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:40 PM Alignment framework & integration into overall calibration scheme

2:00 PM ALICE Integration of the alignment in the general calibration strategy

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

Slides align_workshop_14062009.pdf

2:20 PM ATLAS Atlas Alignment framework and integration

Speaker: Andrea Formica (DAPNIA)

Slides Alignment_Integration_in_SW_v1.pdf

2:50 PM Integration of Alignment in Overall CMS Calibration Workflow

Speaker: Gero Flucke (DESY)

Slides flucke_alignWS2009.pdf

3:20 PM The LHCb alignment and alignment monitoring framework

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

Slides blouw.pdf

3:45 PM → 4:15 PM Coffee Break

4:15 PM → 5:45 PM Alignment aspects for the LHC Upgrade

4:15 PM ATLAS Inner Detector Upgrade

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

Slides sergio_3rdAliWS_160609.pdf

4:35 PM 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

4:55 PM Possible layouts of an upgraded CMS tracker

Speaker: Duccio Abbaneo (CERN)

Slides D_Abbaneo.pdf D_Abbaneo.ppt

5:25 PM Discussion

5:45 PM → 6:00 PM Workshop Closing

slides Closing.pdf