3rd RD51 Collaboration Meeting

from Tuesday, 16 June 2009 (09:00) to Wednesday, 17 June 2009 (14:00)
Kolympari, Crete, Greece

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
16 Jun 2009
17 Jun 2009
AM
09:00
WG1: Technological Aspects and Developments of New Detector Structures (until 12:30) (Room A)
09:00 MAMMA - Joerg Wotschack (CERN)   (Room A)
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09:20 Prototyping bulk Micromegas in Saclay - Mr Stéphan Aune (CEA Saclay)   (Room A)
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09:40 Double-mesh structure for ion back-flow suppression - Fabien Jeanneau (Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA-Saclay))   (Room A)
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10:00 Development of new thick hole-type structures - joao veloso (university of aveiro) Joao F.C.A. Veloso (Uni Aveiro)   (Room A)
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10:20 --- Coffee break ---
10:50 Options for resistive and capacitive readout boards - Rui De Oliveira (CERN)   (Room A)
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11:10 A portable high voltage supply - Frederik Hartjes (NIKHEF)   (Room A)
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11:30 LNF development of HVGEM and Carioca - Fabrizio Murtas (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF))   (Room A)
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11:50 Thick & thin GEMs in VECC Kolkata - Anand Kumar Dubey (Institute of Physics)   (Room A)
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12:10 Discussion - Serge Duarte Pinto (CERN) Paul Colas (DAPNIA)   (Room A)
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09:00
WG5: MPGD Related Electronics (until 12:35) (Room B)
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09:00 Common readout system status   (Room B)
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09:20 Readout Chip Candidates   (Room B)
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09:40 FEE Cards   (Room B)
10:00 --- break ---
10:15 DATE case example ATLAS MMega   (Room B)
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10:35 DCS case example: ATLAS MMega   (Room B)
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10:55 Application: NEXT   (Room B)
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11:15 Application: TPC with triple GEM and Timepix Readout   (Room B)
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11:35 Application: Upgrade of ALICE Calorimeter electronics   (Room B)
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11:55 Discussion: Action Items   (Room B)
12:15 Medipix3   (Room B)
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09:00
WG7: Common Test Facilities (until 12:30) (Room C)
09:00 Test of micromegas with the Demokritos neutron beam - Eleni Ntomari (Institute of Nuclear Physics-Nat. Cent. for Sci. Res. Demokritos)   (Room C)
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09:20 Test beam @SPS/H4: status report - Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens)   (Room C)
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09:40 Test beam @SPS/H4: hazards and operative procedure - Dr Matteo Alfonsi (CERN)   (Room C)
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10:00 Presentations from groups having test beam in October   (Room C)
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10:20 Discussion: test beam costs, common funds, 2010 test beams, AoB   (Room C)
09:00
RD51 news and CB meeting summary (until 09:45) (Room A)
09:00 RD51 news - Leszek Ropelewski (CERN)   (Room A)
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09:15 RD51 organization issues - maxim titov   (Room A)
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09:30 Collaboration Board meeting summary - Silvia Dalla Torre (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))   (Room A)
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09:45
Plenary Session - Reports from the Working Groups (until 11:15) (Room A)
09:45 WG1: Technological Aspects and Development of New detector Strucures - Paul Colas (DAPNIA) Serge Duarte Pinto (CERN)   (Room A)
10:15 WG2: Common Characterization and Physics Issues - Harry Van Der Graaf (NIKHEF) Vladimir Peskov (Pole Universitaire Leonardo de Vinci)   (Room A)
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10:45 WG4: Simulations and Software Tools - Rob Veenhof (CERN) Alain Bellerive (Carleton University)   (Room A)
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11:30
Plenary Session - Reports from the Working Groups (until 13:00) (Room A)
11:30 WG5: MPGD Related Electronics - Hans Muller (CERN)   (Room A)
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12:00 WG6: Production - Ioanis Giomataris (Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA-Saclay)) Rui De Oliveira (CERN) Hans Taureg (CERN, Geneva)   (Room A)
12:30 WG7: Common Test Facilities - Matteo Alfonsi (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF)) Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens)   (Room A)
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PM
14:00
WG2: Common Characterization and Physics Issues (until 17:30) (Room A)
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14:00 Introductionary remarks - V. Peskov   (Room A)
14:10 Gridpix/Gossip Developments - F. Hartjes   (Room A)
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14:40 Study of energy resolution and avalanche statistics of MICROMEGAS detector - P. Colas   (Room A)
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15:00 Single-electron response and energy resolution of MICROMEGAS detector - T. Zerguerras   (Room A)
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15:20 Scintillation yield of avalanches in MPGDs - J. Veloso   (Room A)
15:40 RICH upgrade in ALICE and challenges for WG2 - V. Peskov   (Room A)
16:00 Discussion: Optimization of the T-GEM based RICH (discussion)   (Room A)
16:30 Short remarks on Spark protection - V. Peskov   (Room A)
16:50 Conclusion and outlook - V. Peskov   (Room A)
14:00
WG4: Simulations and Software Tools (until 17:30) (Room B)
14:00 MHSP: scintillation from excited states - Carlos Alberto Bastos de Oliveira (Aveiro)   (Room B)
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14:30 Penning transfers: survey of available data, life-time of excited states, pressure dependence - Ozkan Sahin (Bursa)   (Room B)
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15:00 --- break ---
15:15 Charging up of the dielectric in GEMs - Gabriele Croci (CERN)   (Room B)
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15:45 Micromegas mesh transparency - Konstantinos Nikolopoulos   (Room B)
16:15 --- break ---
16:30 Status of the GEANT4/GARFIELD Interface - Alain Bellerive (Carleton)   (Room B)
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16:50 Field solver and its possible application in the simulation of MPGDs - Supratik MUKHOPADHYAY (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)   (Room B)
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17:00 Avalanche statistics (tbc) - Heinrich Schindler   (Room B)
14:00
WG6: Production (until 17:30) (Room C)
14:00 List of manufacturers - Hans Taureg   (Room C)
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14:30 news on the CERN/EN workshop - Hans Taureg   (Room C)
17:30
Collaboration Board meeting (until 19:00) (Room A)
13:00 Closing Remarks - Leszek Ropelewski (CERN) maxim titov   ()
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