12th Workshop on Electronics for LHC and future Experiments

from Monday, September 25, 2006 (2:00 PM) to Friday, September 29, 2006 (5:00 PM)
Valencia, Spain

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Sep 25, 2006
Sep 26, 2006
Sep 27, 2006
Sep 28, 2006
Sep 29, 2006
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9:00 AM
Plenary session P2-Plenary ILC & high reliability (until 10:55 AM)
9:00 AM Detector and readout systems for the ILC - Tim Greenshaw (Liverpool)  
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9:45 AM High Availability Electronics standards - RAY LARSEN (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center For the ILC High Availability Electronics R&D Effort)  
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10:30 AM --- break ---
10:55 AM
Parallel Session A1-Readout, commissioning and integration 1 (until 1:00 PM)
10:55 AM Overview of LHCb electronics installation aspects - Vincent Bobillier (CERN)  
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11:20 AM Testing, time alignment, calibration and monitoring features in the LHCb front-end electronics - Jorgen Christiansen (CERN)  
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11:45 AM The readout system for the LHCb Outer Tracker - Dirk Wiedner (Physikalisches Institut Uni Heidelberg)  
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12:10 PM The Front End Electronics of the Scintillator Pad Detector of LHCb Calorimeter - David Gascon (D. ECM, Universitat de Barcelona)  
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12:35 PM Front-end Electronics Test for the LHCb Muon Wire Chambers - Rafael Antunes Nobrega (INFN - Sez. Roma)  
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10:55 AM
Parallel Session B1-Trigger session 1 (until 1:00 PM)
10:55 AM Integration of the CMS regional calorimeter Trigger hardware into the CMS level-1 Trigger - Pamela Klabbers (University of Wisconsin)  
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11:20 AM Revised CMS Global Calorimeter Trigger Hardware Design - Matt Stettler (CERN)  
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11:45 AM The Drift Tube Track Finder Muon Trigger at the CMS Experiment - Jorge Fernandez De Troconiz (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)  
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12:10 PM An RPC-based Technical Trigger for the CMS Experiment - Flavio Loddo (INFN Bari)  
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12:35 PM Design and Test of the Off-Detector Electronics for the CMS Barrel Muon Trigger - Luigi Guiducci (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))  
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9:00 AM
Plenary Session P3-Optoelectronics (until 10:10 AM)
9:00 AM Optoelectronic developments for remote-handled maintenance tasks in ITER - Marco VAN UFFELEN (SCK)  
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9:45 AM State of the art technologies for front-end hybrids - Rui de Oliveira (CERN)  
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10:10 AM --- break and POSTER SESSION ---
10:35 AM --- Poster Sessions ---
11:20 AM
Parallel Session A4-Optical links (until 1:00 PM)
11:20 AM Potential Upgrade of the CMS Tracker Analogue Readout Optical Links using Bandwidth Efficient Digital Modulation - Stefanos Dris (Imperial College and CERN)  
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11:45 AM Integration of the CMS Tracker Optical Links - Karl Aaron Gill (CERN)  
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12:10 PM Radiation Tests of the ATLAS Inner Detector Opto-Electronic Readout System for SLHC - Cigdem Issever (University of Oxford)  
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12:35 PM Bandwidth of Micro-Twisted Cables and Spliced SIMM/GRIN Fibers and Radiation Hardness of PIN/VCSEL Arrays - Kock Kiam Gan (The Ohio State University)  
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11:20 AM
Parallel Session B4-Trigger & DAQ session 1 (until 1:00 PM)
11:20 AM Recent developments on th ALICE central Trigger processor - Orlando Villalobos Baillie (University of Birmingham)  
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11:40 AM Timing in the ALICE trigger system - Roman Lietava (University of Birmingham)  
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12:00 PM The ALICE silicon pixel detector read-out electronics - Marian Krivda (Institute of Experimental Physics, Kosice, Slovakia)  
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12:20 PM The ALICE Silicon Pixel Detector Control system and online calibration tools - Ivan Amos Cali (Universita degli Studi di Bari / CERN)  
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12:40 PM The Level 0 Pixel Trigger System for the ALICE Silicon Pixel Detector - Gianluca Aglieri Rinella (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva)  
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9:00 AM
Plenary Session P4-HEP electronic and ASIC trends (until 10:30 AM)
9:00 AM 3D Circuit Integration for High Energy Physics - Ray YAREMA  
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9:45 AM Technology Scaling and CMOS Analog Design - Franco MALOBERTI (University of Pavia)  
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10:30 AM --- break and POSTER SESSION ---
10:55 AM
Parallel Session A7-ASIC developments (until 1:00 PM)
10:55 AM Silicon strip readout using Deep-Submicron Technologies - Jean-Francois Genat (CNRS/IN2P3/LPNHE)  
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11:20 AM Prototype of the front-end circuit for the GOSSIP (Gas On Slimmed Silicon Pixel) chip in the 0.13um CMOS technology. - Vladimir Gromov (NIKHEF)  
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11:45 AM Irradiation of 0.13um ATLAS pixel test chip - Robert Ely (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) Maurice Garcia-Sciveres (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)  
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12:10 PM An Error-Correcting Line Code for a HEP Rad-Hard Multi-GigaBit Optical Link - Giulia Papotti (CERN (PH-MIC) and Universita degli Studi di Parma)  
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12:35 PM Development of a CMOS SOI pixel detector - Hirokazu Ishino (Tokyo Institute of Technology)  
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10:55 AM
Parallel Session B7-DAQ session (until 1:00 PM)
10:55 AM Production Test Rig for the ATLAS Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger Digital Processors - Gilles Mahout (The University of Birmingham)  
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11:20 AM The Hardware of the ATLAS Pixel Detector Control System - Tobias Henss (Univerity of Wuppertal)  
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11:40 AM Algorithms in the ROD DSP of the ATLAS hadronic Tile Calorimeter - Belen Salvachua (IFIC (UV - CSIC))  
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12:00 PM Low-power front-end for a Neutrino Underwater Telescope - Domenico Lo Presti (CATANIA UNIVERSITY - PHYSICS DEPARTMENT)  
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12:20 PM New RPC front-end electronics for hades - Alejandro Gil (IFIC)  
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12:40 PM Alibava : A portable readout system for silicon microstrip sensors - Ricardo Marco-Hernández (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), Universidad de Valencia-CSIC, Valencia, Spain.) Salvador Martí i García (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), Universidad de Valencia-CSIC,Valencia, Spain.)  
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9:00 AM
Plenary Session P6- LHC Machine (until 10:35 AM)
9:00 AM LHC machine RF issues and developments - Andy BUTTERWORTH  
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9:45 AM The LHC beam loss monitoring system's data acquisition card - Ewald Effinger (CERN)  
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10:10 AM An on line radiation monitoring system for the LHC machine and experimental caverns - Thijs Wijnands (CERN)  
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10:35 AM --- break ---
11:00 AM
Plenary Session P7-Beam, SLHC & closeout (until 12:55 PM)
11:00 AM Beam Phase and Intensity Monitor for the LHCb experiment - Richard Jacobsson (CERN)  
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11:25 AM Proposal for a First Level Trigger using pixel detector for CMS at Super-LHC - Fabrizio Palla (INFN)  
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11:50 AM Stacked Tracking for CMS at Super-LHC - John Jones (Imperial College London)  
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12:15 PM Close OUT  
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2:00 PM
Plenary session P1-Opening plenary (until 6:00 PM)
2:00 PM Introduction by the Director of IFIC - Juan Antonio Fuster Verdú  
2:30 PM Particle and Astroparticle Physics in Spain - Antonio FERRER  
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3:15 PM The LHC machine status, calibration run and commissioning plans - Mike LAMONT  
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4:00 PM --- break ---
4:30 PM CMOS directions in industry - Ernesto PEREA  
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5:15 PM 3D electronics - Vyshnavi SUNTHARALINGAM  
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1:00 PM --- break and POSTER SESSION ---
2:15 PM
Parallel Session A2-Readout, commissioning and integration 2 (until 3:55 PM)
2:15 PM Integration and Installation of the CMS Electronics system - Magnus Hansen (CERN)  
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2:40 PM Installation and Commissioning of the On-Detector Electronics for the CMS Electromagnetic Crystal Calorimeter - Cristina Biino (INFN - sezione di Torino)  
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3:05 PM Performance of CMS ECAL Very Front End Electronics - Alessandro Nardulli (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland)  
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3:30 PM FEC-CCS: A common Front-End Controller card for the CMS detector electronics. - Kostas Kloukinas (CERN)  
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2:15 PM
Parallel Session B2-Trigger session 2 (until 3:55 PM)
2:15 PM The Level-0 Decision Unit of LHCb experiment - Julien Laubser (Laboratoire de physique Corpusculaire (LPC) de Clermont-Ferrand)  
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2:40 PM The Level-0 muon trigger for the LHCb experiment - Jean-Pierre Cachemiche (CPPM IN2P3/CNRS)  
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3:05 PM LHCb Calorimeter Trigger : Validation Board - Cyril Drancourt (Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP))  
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3:30 PM Installation and Test of the ATLAS Muon Endcap Trigger Chamber Electronics - Hiroshi Nomoto (ICEPP,Tokyo)  
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3:55 PM --- break and POSTER SESSION ---
4:20 PM
Parallel Session A3-Readout, commissioning and integration 3 (until 6:25 PM)
4:20 PM Recent Results on the Performance of the CMS Tracker Readout System - Jonathan Fulcher (Imperial College)  
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4:45 PM Readout Electronics Tests and Integration of the ATLAS Semiconductor Tracker - Vasiliki Mitsou (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC) UV-CSIC)  
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5:10 PM A Read-out Driver for Silicon Detectors in ATLAS - Trevor Vickey (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Physics)  
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5:35 PM Long Term Testing of VeLo detector modules in Vacuum - Aldo Saavedra (Glasgow)  
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6:00 PM Design and test of the final ALICE SDD CARLOS end ladder board - Samuele Antinori (Department of Physics & INFN Bologna)  
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4:20 PM
Parallel Session B3-Trigger session 3 (until 6:25 PM)
4:20 PM Commissioning of the ATLAS Level-1 Central Trigger - Thilo Pauly (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))  
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4:45 PM The Octant Module of the ATLAS Level-1 Muon to Central Trigger Processor Interface - Stefan Haas (CERN)  
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5:10 PM The ATLAS Barrel Level-1 Muon Trigger Calibration - Riccardo Vari (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))  
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5:35 PM ATLAS TDAQ RoI Builder and the Level 2 Supervisor system - Yuri ERMOLINE (MSU)  
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6:00 PM Setup, tests and results for the ATLAS TileCal Read Out Driver production - Alberto Valero (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC) UV-CSIC)  
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1:00 PM --- break ---
2:15 PM
Parallel Session A5-DAQ and Optical technology (until 3:55 PM)
2:15 PM A multi-channel optical plug-in module for gigabit data reception - Paschalis Vichoudis (CERN)  
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2:40 PM PCI Express Over Optical Links for Data Acquisition and Control - Andrea Triossi (Sez. INFN di Padova Italy)  
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3:05 PM Status of the TTC upgrade - Sophie BARON (CERN)  
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3:30 PM On the development of the final optical multiplexer board prototype for the TileCal experiment - Vicente Gonzalez Millan (Dep. Ingeniería Electrónica - Univ. Valencia)  
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2:15 PM
Parallel Session B5-Power systems (until 3:55 PM)
2:15 PM The CMS Tracker Power Supply System: the Quality Assurance test work results over 2000 power units. - Marco Costa (University of Torino)  
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2:40 PM Evaluation and testing of advanced low-voltage power supplies - Bruno Allongue (CERN)  
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3:05 PM : Distributed low voltage power supply system for front end electronics of the TRT detector in ATLAS experiment - Zbigniew Hajduk (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN - Cracow, Poland and CERN Geneva)  
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3:30 PM Electromagnetic Compatibility of a Low Voltage Power Supply for the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter Front-End Electronics - Georges Blanchot (CERN)  
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3:55 PM --- break and POSTER SESSION ---
4:20 PM
Parallel Session A6-Optoelectronics Working Group (until 6:00 PM)
4:20 PM SLHC Working Group  
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4:20 PM
Poster sessions (until 6:00 PM)
4:20 PM "CMAD", a Full Custom ASIC, for the Upgrade of COMPASS RICH-1 - Ozgur Cobanoglu (Univ. + INFN)  
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4:20 PM A compact plug-in module for LHC-like trigger emulation - Georgios Sidiropoulos (University of Ioannina)  
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4:20 PM A high level modelling approach to design and manage 18 electronics configurations used for the ECAL’s endcaps hardware design - Thierry Romanteau (LLR Polytechnique) Emmanuel Vaumorin (PROSILOG)  
4:20 PM A Test Stand System for High-Energy Physics Applications - Guilherme Cardoso (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)  
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4:20 PM ATLAS Pixel Detector Timing Optimisation with the Back of Crate Card of the Optical Pixel Read out System - Tobias Flick (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal)  
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4:20 PM Background for High Energy Space Instrumentation at ISS - Andres Russu (Astronomy and Space Science Group - ICMUV - University of Valencia)  
4:20 PM CMS ECAL Low Voltage system - Alexander Singovski (University of Minnesota & CERN)  
4:20 PM CMS ECAL optical cables testing - Alexander Singovski (University of Minnesota & CERN)  
4:20 PM CMS Optical Links - Lessons learned from Mass Production - Jan Troska (CERN)  
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4:20 PM Commissioning and calibration of the CMS micro-strip tracker - Robert Bainbridge (Imperial College London)  
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4:20 PM Data Acquisition and Management in the Calibration Processes of the CMS Barrel Muon Alignment System - Géza Székely (Institue of Nuclear Research, ATOMKI, Debrecen, Hungary)  
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4:20 PM Design and performance of a PASA for the FAST-TRD Detector of the CBM experiment at FAIR - Hans Kristian Soltveit (University Heidelberg Physikalisches institut)  
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4:20 PM Development and Setup of a Prototype System of Distributed Analysis for ATLAS Tier-2 - Farida Fassi (IFIC- Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular)  
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4:20 PM Development and test results of a readout chip for the GERDA experiment - Nigel Smale (Nuclear Physics Laboratory)  
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4:20 PM Electronic Devices for Controlling the Very High Voltage in the ALICE TPC Detector - Marco Boccioli (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))  
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4:20 PM Evaluation of Data Transmission at 80MHz and 160MHz Over Backplane, Copper and Optical Links - Mikhail Matveev (Rice University)  
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4:20 PM Functional and linearity tester system for the LHC beam loss monitoring data acquisition card - Jonathan Emery (CERN)  
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4:20 PM High-density backplanes – problems and solutions - Sam Silverstein (Stockholm University)  
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4:20 PM Ideas on DC-DC Converters for Delivery of Low Voltage and High Currents for the SLHC / ILC Detector Electronics in Magnetic field and Radiation environments. - Satish Dhawan (Yale University)  
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4:20 PM Implementation of the Control System for the LHCb Muon Detector - Rafael Antunes Nobrega (Universita di Roma I "La Sapienza")  
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4:20 PM Large scale production of the Multi-Chip Module of the ATLAS Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger - Pavel Weber (Kirchhoff-Institut fur Physik (KIP))  
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4:20 PM Local Trigger Processor Interface Module - Diogo Nunes Caracinha (Faculdade de Ciencias)  
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4:20 PM Low-noise design issues for analog front-end electronics in 130 nm and 90 nm CMOS technologies - Massimo Manghisoni (Università degli Studi di Bergamo)  
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4:20 PM n-XYTER - A CMOS read-out ASIC for a new generation of high rate multichannel counting mode neutron detectors - Ulrich Trunk (Max-Planck-Institut f. Kernfphysik)  
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4:20 PM Optical pattern generator board - Magali Magne (Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire de Clermont-Ferrand (LPC))  
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4:20 PM Radiation Testing of electronic components and systems for the LHC experiments and machine : summary and future - Thijs Wijnands (CERN)  
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4:20 PM Radiation tests for Slow Control ALICE TOF systems - Pietro Antonioli (INFN - sezione di Bologna)  
4:20 PM Radiation Tolerance Qualification Tests of the Final Source Interface Unit for the ALICE Experiment - Ervin Denes (KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics)  
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4:20 PM Revised CMS Global Calorimeter Trigger Functionality & Algorithms - Gregory Michiel Iles (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))  
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4:20 PM Setup for testing LHCb Inner Tracker ladders - Pablo Vazquez Regueiro (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)  
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4:20 PM Signal integrity analysis for the electronic design of printed circuit boards - Alexandra Dana Oltean Karlsson (Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest/CERN)  
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4:20 PM Signal Integrity Studies at Optical Multiplexer Board for TileCal System - Jose Torres Pais (Dept. Ingenieria Electronica-Universidad de Valencia)  
4:20 PM System tests and debugging using Python - Jim Brooke (H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory)  
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4:20 PM The CDF Run II Silicon Detector - Ankush Mitra (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)  
4:20 PM The Gigabit Optical Transmitters for the LHCb Calorimeters - Lax Ignazio (INFN Bologna-LHCb)  
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4:20 PM The high voltage distribution system for the RICH photon detectors at LHCb - Claudio Arnaboldi (Sezione di Milano dell'INFN and Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Milano-Bicocca, P.za della Scienza 3, Milano I-20126, Italy)  
4:20 PM The Level-1 Global Trigger for the CMS Experiment at LHC - Manfred Jeitler (Institut fuer Hochenergiephysik (HEPHY)) Anton Taurok (Institut fuer Hochenergiephysik (HEPHY))  
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4:20 PM The LHC Beam Loss Monitoring System's Surface Building Instalation. - Christos Zamantzas (CERN)  
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4:20 PM Time Resolution of a Few Nanoseconds in Silicon Strip Detectors Using the APV25 Chip - Markus Friedl (HEPHY Vienna)  
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4:20 PM Total Dose and Single Event Effects in a 0.25 m Silicon-On-Sapphire CMOS Technology - Ping Gui (Southern Methodist University)  
4:20 PM Unified C/VHDL Model Generation of FPGA-based LHCb VELO algorithms - Manfred Muecke (CERN)  
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4:20 PM Wafer test of the LHCb Outer Tracker TDC-Chip - Jan Knopf (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg)  
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1:00 PM --- break and POSTER SESSION ---
2:00 PM
Plenary Session P5-LHC experiment electronic upgrades (until 5:30 PM)
2:00 PM Upgrades introduction - Geoff HALL (Imperial College of London)  
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2:15 PM Informal comments on SLHC machine issues - Andy BUTTERWORTH  
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2:35 PM Charge pump DC to DC converter Inner Tracker Applications - Mauricio Garcia-Sciveres (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) Robert Ely (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)  
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3:00 PM Power issues questions and discussion  
3:30 PM --- break ---
3:55 PM The GBT Bi-directional Link and Data system - Paulo MOREIRA  
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4:25 PM TTC upgrade questions and discussion  
4:45 PM Future options for optical links - Francois VASEY (CERN)  
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5:10 PM Optical links questions and discussion  
5:30 PM
Parallel Session A8-MicroElectronics Working Group (until 6:00 PM)