5th International Conference on Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors (MPGD2017)

from Monday, 22 May 2017 (07:30) to Friday, 26 May 2017 (17:50)
Temple University - Philadelphia (Morgan Hall D301)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
22 May 2017
23 May 2017
24 May 2017
25 May 2017
26 May 2017
AM
07:30 --- Breakfast ---
08:30
Opening (until 09:00) (Morgan Hall D301)
08:30 Welcome Address (Dean Michael Klein) / Opening - Michael Klein (Temple University) Bernd Surrow (Temple University)   (Morgan Hall D301)
09:00
MPGD detector technologies - 1 (Chair: Klaus Dehmelt) (until 10:10) (Morgan Hall D301)
09:00 Status and Future Developments of Micro-pattern Gas Detectors - Eraldo Oliveri (CERN)   (Morgan Hall D301)
09:30 Charged particle timing based on Micromegas in the sub-50 picosecond regime - Eraldo Oliveri (CERN)   (Morgan Hall D301)
09:50 The first beam test for a GEM-readout TPC module with a large aperture GEM-like gating device - Yumi Aoki (KEK/SOKENDAI)   (Morgan Hall D301)
10:10 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30
MPGD detector technologies - 2 (Chair: Klaus Dehmelt) (until 11:50) (Morgan Hall D301)
10:30 Performance of the chromium GEM detector - Bartosz Mindur (AGH University of Science and Technology (PL))   (Morgan Hall D301)
10:50 A new design of Micro Pixel Chamber using DLC electrodes - Fumiya Yamane (Kobe Univ.)   (Morgan Hall D301)
11:10 Numerical predictions of GEM sheet nonlinear mechanical properties under large deformations - Jeremie Alexandre Merlin (CERN)   (Morgan Hall D301)
11:30 The RPWELL detector – its physics and potential applications - Shikma Bressler (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))   (Morgan Hall D301)
11:50 --- Lunch ---
07:30 --- Breakfast ---
08:50
MPGD detector technologies - 5 (Chair: Marcus Hohlmann) (until 10:10) (Morgan Hall D301)
08:50 The micro-RWELL detector - Marco Poli Lener (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati - INFN)   (Morgan Hall D301)
09:10 Small-pad resistive Micromegas for operation at very high rates - Edoardo Maria Farina (Universita e INFN, Pavia (IT))   (Morgan Hall D301)
09:30 Operation of a sealed Kr based micropatterned detector - Joao Veloso (i3N, Physics Department, University of Aveiro)   (Morgan Hall D301)
09:50 Review of results and measurements obtained with GEMPIX detector - Fabrizio Murtas (CERN & INFN)   (Morgan Hall D301)
10:10 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30
Applications at future nuclear and particle physics facilites - 1 (Chair: Marcus Hohlmann) (until 12:00) (Morgan Hall D301)
10:30 Applications of Micropattern Gas Detectors at BNL./JLAB and a future EIC facility - Thomas K Hemmick   (Morgan Hall D301)
11:00 Applications of Micropattern Gas Detectors at FRIB - Marco Cortesi (National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory)   (Morgan Hall D301)
11:30 Applications of Micropattern Gas Detectors at Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics related Experiments - Javier Galan   (Morgan Hall D301)
07:30 --- Breakfast ---
08:30
Applications at future nuclear and particle physics facilites - 4 (Chair: Kondo Gnanvo) (until 10:30) (Morgan Hall D301)
08:30 Simulation of the ATLAS New Small Wheel (NSW) System - Huacheng Cai (Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US))   (Morgan Hall D301)
08:50 Resistive Micromegas for the Muon Spectrometer Upgrade of the ATLAS Experiment - Ourania Sidiropoulou (Bayerische Julius Max. Universitaet Wuerzburg (DE))   (Morgan Hall D301)
09:10 The novel photon detectors based on MPGD technologies for the upgrade of COMPASS RICH-1 - Fulvio Tessarotto (INFN Trieste)   (Morgan Hall D301)
09:30 The high voltage system for the novel MPGD-based photon detectors of COMPASS RICH-1 - Silvia Dalla Torre (Universita e INFN, Trieste (IT))   (Morgan Hall D301)
09:50 A large low-mass GEM detector with zigzag readout strips for forward tracking at EIC - Marcus Hohlmann (Florida Institute of Technology (US))   (Morgan Hall D301)
10:10 From gated to continuous readout: the GEM upgrade of the ALICE TPC - Andreas Mathis (Technische Universität München (DE))   (Morgan Hall D301)
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
10:50
MPGD production and commercialization - 1 (Chair: Kondo Gnanvo) (until 11:50) (Morgan Hall D301)
10:50 ATLAS MPGD production status - Marco Schioppa (Universita della Calabria (IT))   (Morgan Hall D301)
11:20 Japan MPGD community - Atsuhiko Ochi (Kobe Univ.)   (Morgan Hall D301)
11:50 --- Lunch ---
07:30 --- Breakfast ---
09:00
MPGD production and commercialization - 2 (Chair: Craig Woody) (until 10:20) (Morgan Hall D301)
09:00 Construction of Triple-GEM Detector Using Commercially Manufactured Large GEM Foils - Matt Posik   (Morgan Hall D301)
09:20 Optical readout of MPGDs: Techniques and applications - Florian Maximilian Brunbauer (CERN, Vienna University of Technology (AT))   (Morgan Hall D301)
09:40 Towards a 60 x 60 cm2 demonstrator for the NMX instrument at the European Spallation Source ERIC - Patrik Thuiner (CERN)   (Morgan Hall D301)
10:20 --- Coffee Break ---
10:40
MPGD production and commercialization - 3 (Chair: Craig Woody) (until 11:40) (Morgan Hall D301)
10:40 Muographies of the Giza's Great Pyramid with Micromegas trackers - Simon Bouteille (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))   (Morgan Hall D301)
11:00 First industrial production of large area Micromegas by ELVIA: status, applications and perspectives - Sébastien Procureur (CEA-Saclay)   (Morgan Hall D301)
11:40 --- Lunch ---
07:30 --- Breakfast ---
08:30
Plenary Session 2 - RD51 (until 08:45) (Morgan Hall D301)
08:30 WG7 - Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR)) Eraldo Oliveri (CERN)   (Morgan Hall D301)
08:45
Collaboration Board - RD51 (until 10:00) (Morgan Hall D301)
10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30
Plenary Session 2 - RD51 (until 11:50) (Morgan Hall D301)
10:30 WG5 - Michael Lupberger (CERN) Jochen Kaminski (University of Bonn (DE)) Hans Muller   (Morgan Hall D301)
11:15 WG6 - Fabien Jeanneau (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)) Rui De Oliveira (CERN)   (Morgan Hall D301)
PM
13:20
MPGD detector technologies - 3 (Chair: Matt Posik) (until 15:00) (Morgan Hall D301)
13:20 Preliminary Results of GEM based Transition Radiation Detector/ Tracker in Test Beam at JLab - Kondo Gnanvo (University of Virginia (US))   (Morgan Hall D301)
13:40 HARPO, a Micromegas+GEM TPC for gamma polarimetry above 1 MeV. - Paul Colas (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))   (Morgan Hall D301)
14:00 GEM foil gain prediction - Timo Eero Hilden (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))   (Morgan Hall D301)
14:20 Characterization and Validation of first GEM Foils produced in India - Md Naimuddin (University of Delhi (IN)) Ashok Kumar (University of Delhi (IN))   (Morgan Hall D301)
14:40 GEM single-mask characterization and influence of GEM foil orientation - Jeremie Alexandre Merlin (CERN)   (Morgan Hall D301)
15:00 --- Coffee Break ---
15:30
MPGD detector technologies - 4 (Chair: Matt Posik) (until 17:30) (Morgan Hall D301)
15:30 Development of the BAND-GEM detector solution for the SANS experiments - Gabriele Croci (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))   (Morgan Hall D301)
15:50 Gas scintillation Glass GEM detector for high-resolution X-ray imaging and CT - Takeshi Fujiwara (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology )   (Morgan Hall D301)
16:10 Cloud Computing for QA of MPGD GEM-foils using Image Analysis - C.A Rodriguez (UNIVERSIDAD ANTONIO NARIÑO)   (Morgan Hall D301)
16:30 Towards High Resolution Bulk Micromegas Detectors for Nuclear Physics Instruments. - Emanuel Pollacco (IRFU CEA Saclay)   (Morgan Hall D301)
16:50 Characterisation of the charging up effect in Micromegas detectors - Jerome Samarati (CERN)   (Morgan Hall D301)
17:10 Beam Test Results from a GEM-based Combination TPC-Cherenkov Detector - Bob Azmoun (Physics Dept., Brookhaven National Lab)   (Morgan Hall D301)
17:30 --- Break / Walk to SERC Building at Temple University ---
18:00 --- Reception with Live Jazz Music / Group photo ---
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:20
Applications at future nuclear and particle physics facilites - 2 (Chair: Tom Hemmick) (until 15:00) (Morgan Hall D301)
13:20 Development of GEM Detectors at Hampton University - Anusha Liyanage (Hampton University)   (Morgan Hall D301)
13:40 Construction and test of the large GEM tracking detector for the Super BigBite Spectrometer at JLab - H. Nguyen (Department of Physics, University of Virginia (UVa), Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA)   (Morgan Hall D301)
14:00 Status and progress of the future neutrino-less double beta decay search with the PandaX-III experiment - Damien Neyret (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))   (Morgan Hall D301)
14:20 R&D on Large GEM for the Forward Tracking at the Future Electron Ion Collider - Kondo Gnanvo (University of Virginia (US))   (Morgan Hall D301)
14:40 Micromegas Tracker for the CLAS12 experiment and for a future EIC - Maxence Vandenbroucke (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))   (Morgan Hall D301)
15:00
Coffee Break and Poster Session - 1 (until 16:00) (Morgan Hall D301)
15:00 How many electrons can fit in a GEM hole? - Piotr Gasik (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE))   (Morgan Hall D301)
15:04 Radiation studies on resistive bulk-micromegas chambers at the CERN Gamma Irradiation Facility - Jerome Samarati (CERN)   (Morgan Hall D301)
15:08 Characterization of Micromegas detector with elongated pillars - Ourania Sidiropoulou (Bayerische Julius Max. Universitaet Wuerzburg (DE))   (Morgan Hall D301)
15:12 Characteristics of Micromegas detectors at high temperature - Luigi Longo (Universita del Salento (IT))   (Morgan Hall D301)
15:16 VMM3, an ASIC for Micropattern Detectors - George Iakovidis (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))   (Morgan Hall D301)
15:20 Level-1 Data Driver Card - A high bandwidth radiation tolerant aggregator board for detectors - Panagiotis Gkountoumis (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR))   (Morgan Hall D301)
15:24 Imaging with glass GEM and dynamic time-over-threshold pulse processing method - Yuki Mitsuya (The University of Tokyo)   (Morgan Hall D301)
15:28 A new self-stretching method for large size GEM assembly - Yi Zhou (University of Science and Technology of China (CN))   (Morgan Hall D301)
15:32 A model of charge transfer processes in GEM foils - Viktor Ratza (University of Bonn (DE))   (Morgan Hall D301)
15:36 The importance of LAr TPC in neutrino experiments. - Rafael M. Gutiérrez Maritza Delgado   (Morgan Hall D301)
15:40 A photoelectric-effect-based field calibration system for the Time Projection Chamber at the CBELSA/TAPS experiment - Dimitri Schaab (University of Bonn)   (Morgan Hall D301)
15:44 GEM based alternatives for ion backflow suppression - Marcelo Gameiro Munhoz (Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo) Purba Battacharya (The Weizmann Institute of Science)   (Morgan Hall D301)
15:48 The GEM stability test against frequent high voltage on and off switching. - Sonoe Oda (RIKEN/Tokyo University of Science)   (Morgan Hall D301)
16:00
Applications at future nuclear and particle physics facilites - 3 (Chair: Tom Hemmick) (until 18:00) (Morgan Hall D301)
16:00 The sPHENIX TPC Project - Klaus Dehmelt (Stony Brook University USA)   (Morgan Hall D301)
16:20 Performance of the CAST Micromegas detectors detectors and perspectives for IAXO - Esther Ferrer Ribas (CEA (Saclay))   (Morgan Hall D301)
16:40 GEM Detectors of Proton Charge Radius (PRad) Experiment - Xinzhan Bai (University of Virginia)   (Morgan Hall D301)
17:00 High rate GEM readout and tracking for SBS - Danning Di   (Morgan Hall D301)
17:20 Test beam results of a Cylindrical GEM detector for BESIII experiment - Giulio Mezzadri (Universita di Ferrara & INFN (IT))   (Morgan Hall D301)
17:40 A custom readout electronics for the BESIII CGEM detector - Michela Greco (INFN-UniTO)   (Morgan Hall D301)
18:00
Tour MPGD Laboratory - 1 (until 19:00) (SERC building)
13:10 --- Break ---
14:00 --- Bus Transportation to Center City ---
14:30
History Tour - Independence Hall and Old City (until 17:00) ()
17:00 --- Bus Transportation to Morgan Hall ---
17:30 --- Break ---
18:30 --- Bus Transportation to Center City ---
19:00
Banquet (until 21:30) (Banquet Room)
21:30 --- Bus Transportation to Morgan Hall ---
13:00
Related detector technologies (e.g. RPC's and TPC's) - 1 (Chair: Bernd Surrow) (until 14:50) (Morgan Hall D301)
13:00 Precision Timing Measurement with MicroPattern Detectors - Sebastian White (CERN/Princeton University (US))   (Morgan Hall D301)
13:30 Exploiting Psec Time Resolution - Henry Frisch (university of chicago)   (Morgan Hall D301)
14:00 Status and Future Developments of TPC’s with MPGD readout systems - Paul Colas (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))   (Morgan Hall D301)
14:30 GEMROC2 – a self-triggered ASIC - Tomasz Andrzej Fiutowski (AGH University of Science and Technology (PL))   (Morgan Hall D301)
14:50
Coffee Break and Poster Session - 2 (until 15:50) (Morgan Hall D301)
14:50 sPHENIX TPC simulation studies - Sourav Tarafdar (Vanderbilt University)   (Morgan Hall D301)
14:54 RHIP, a Radio-Controlled High-Voltage Insulated Picoammeter and its usage in studying ion backflow in MPGD-based photon detectors - Silvia Dalla Torre (INFN, Trieste (IT))   (Morgan Hall D301)
14:58 Results of the longevity study with the triple-GEM technology for the upgrade of the CMS muon end-caps - Jeremie Alexandre Merlin (CERN)   (Morgan Hall D301)
15:02 New results on COMPASS pixellized hybrid gaseous detectors for high muon and hadron flux - Damien Neyret (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))   (Morgan Hall D301)
15:06 A wide energy range neutron spectrometer for fusion experiments or safety diagnostics applications - Philippe Legou (CEA Saclay DRF Irfu)   (Morgan Hall D301)
15:10 A GEM-TPC for the CBELSA/TAPS experiment - Jonathan Ottnad (University of Bonn (DE))   (Morgan Hall D301)
15:14 THE GEM QA PROTOCOL OF THE ALICE TPC UPGRADE PROJECT - Jens Erik Brucken (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))   (Morgan Hall D301)
15:18 R&D and related Simulation Studies for the sPHENIX Time Projection Chamber - Prakhar Garg   (Morgan Hall D301)
15:22 sPHENIX Compact TPC for Tracking and Particle Identification - Carlos Eugenio Perez Lara (Stony Brook University)   (Morgan Hall D301)
15:26 Mechanical Construction of the field cage of sPHENIX TPC - Niveditha Ram (Stony Brook University)   (Morgan Hall D301)
15:30 Improvement of GEM gain uniformity: production and verification techniques - Megu Kubota   (Morgan Hall D301)
15:34 Performance of GEM Detectors in the DarkLight Experiment at LERF - Jesmin Nazeer (Hampton University)   (Morgan Hall D301)
15:38 On-line and real-time thickness and density measurement for quality control of thin films using GEMs - Rafael M Gutierrez (Universidad Antonio Nariño)   (Morgan Hall D301)
15:50
Related detector technologies (e.g. RPC's and TPC's) - 2 (Chair: Bernd Surrow) (until 17:10) (Morgan Hall D301)
15:50 Status of the BONuS12 Radial Time Projection Chamber - Gabriel Charles (Old Dominion University)   (Morgan Hall D301)
16:10 Possible Options for Gain Elements in a High Rate Time Projection Chamber. - Nikolai Smirnov (Yale University)   (Morgan Hall D301)
16:30 Implementation of the VMM ASIC in the Scalable Readout System - Michael Lupberger (CERN)   (Morgan Hall D301)
16:50 GridPix detector with Timepix3 ASIC - Jochen Kaminski (University of Bonn (DE))   (Morgan Hall D301)
17:10
Closing (until 17:40) (Morgan Hall D301)
17:10 Summary - Maksym Titov (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))   (Morgan Hall D301)
17:40
Tour MPGD Laboratory - 2 (until 18:40) (SERC building)