Name: 3rd RD51 Collaboration Meeting
Start: 2009-06-16T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2009-06-17T14:00:00+02:00
Location: Kolympari, Crete, Greece

3rd RD51 Collaboration Meeting

from Tuesday 16 June 2009 (09:00) to Wednesday 17 June 2009 (14:00)

Monday 15 June 2009
Tuesday 16 June 2009
09:00
09:00 - 12:30
Room: Room A
Contributions

09:00 MAMMA - Joerg Wotschack (CERN)

09:20 Prototyping bulk Micromegas in Saclay - Stéphan Aune (CEA Saclay)

09:40 Double-mesh structure for ion back-flow suppression - Fabien Jeanneau (Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA-Saclay))

10:00 Development of new thick hole-type structures - Joao F.C.A. Veloso (Uni Aveiro) joao veloso (university of aveiro)

10:50 Options for resistive and capacitive readout boards - Rui De Oliveira (CERN)

11:10 A portable high voltage supply - Frederik Hartjes (NIKHEF)

11:30 LNF development of HVGEM and Carioca - Fabrizio Murtas (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF))

11:50 Thick & thin GEMs in VECC Kolkata - Anand Kumar Dubey (Institute of Physics)

12:10 Discussion - Paul Colas (DAPNIA) Serge Duarte Pinto (CERN)
09:00 - 12:35
Room: Room B
Contributions

09:00 Common readout system status

09:20 Readout Chip Candidates

09:40 FEE Cards

10:15 DATE case example ATLAS MMega

10:35 DCS case example: ATLAS MMega

10:55 Application: NEXT

11:15 Application: TPC with triple GEM and Timepix Readout

11:35 Application: Upgrade of ALICE Calorimeter electronics

11:55 Discussion: Action Items

12:15 Medipix3
09:00 - 12:30
Room: Room C
Contributions

09:00 Test of micromegas with the Demokritos neutron beam - Eleni Ntomari (Institute of Nuclear Physics-Nat. Cent. for Sci. Res. Demokritos)

09:20 Test beam @SPS/H4: status report - Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens)

09:40 Test beam @SPS/H4: hazards and operative procedure - Matteo Alfonsi (CERN)

10:00 Presentations from groups having test beam in October

10:20 Discussion: test beam costs, common funds, 2010 test beams, AoB
14:00
14:00 - 17:30
Room: Room A
Contributions

14:00 Introductionary remarks - V. Peskov

14:10 Gridpix/Gossip Developments - F. Hartjes

14:40 Study of energy resolution and avalanche statistics of MICROMEGAS detector - P. Colas

15:00 Single-electron response and energy resolution of MICROMEGAS detector - T. Zerguerras

15:20 Scintillation yield of avalanches in MPGDs - J. Veloso

15:40 RICH upgrade in ALICE and challenges for WG2 - V. Peskov

16:00 Discussion: Optimization of the T-GEM based RICH (discussion)

16:30 Short remarks on Spark protection - V. Peskov

16:50 Conclusion and outlook - V. Peskov
14:00 - 17:30
Room: Room B
Contributions

14:00 MHSP: scintillation from excited states - Carlos Alberto Bastos de Oliveira (Aveiro)

14:30 Penning transfers: survey of available data, life-time of excited states, pressure dependence - Ozkan Sahin (Bursa)

15:15 Charging up of the dielectric in GEMs - Gabriele Croci (CERN)

15:45 Micromegas mesh transparency - Konstantinos Nikolopoulos

16:30 Status of the GEANT4/GARFIELD Interface - Alain Bellerive (Carleton)

16:50 Field solver and its possible application in the simulation of MPGDs - Supratik MUKHOPADHYAY (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)

17:00 Avalanche statistics (tbc) - Heinrich Schindler
14:00 - 17:30
Room: Room C
Contributions

14:00 List of manufacturers - Hans Taureg

14:30 news on the CERN/EN workshop - Hans Taureg
17:30

17:30 - 19:00
Room: Room A
Wednesday 17 June 2009
09:00
09:00 - 09:45
Room: Room A
Contributions

09:00 RD51 news - Leszek Ropelewski (CERN)

09:15 RD51 organization issues - maxim titov

09:30 Collaboration Board meeting summary - Silvia Dalla Torre (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))
09:45
09:45 - 11:15
Room: Room A
Contributions

09:45 WG1: Technological Aspects and Development of New detector Strucures - Paul Colas (DAPNIA) Serge Duarte Pinto (CERN)

10:15 WG2: Common Characterization and Physics Issues - Harry Van Der Graaf (NIKHEF) Vladimir Peskov (Pole Universitaire Leonardo de Vinci)

10:45 WG4: Simulations and Software Tools - Alain Bellerive (Carleton University) Rob Veenhof (CERN)
11:30
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Room A
Contributions

11:30 WG5: MPGD Related Electronics - Hans Muller (CERN)

12:00 WG6: Production - Hans Taureg (CERN, Geneva) Ioanis Giomataris (Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA-Saclay)) Rui De Oliveira (CERN)

12:30 WG7: Common Test Facilities - Matteo Alfonsi (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF)) Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens)
13:00 Closing Remarks - Leszek Ropelewski (CERN) maxim titov
Closing Remarks
- Leszek Ropelewski (CERN)
- maxim titov
13:00 - 13:20

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