4th RD51 Collaboration Meeting

from Monday, 23 November 2009 (01:00) to Wednesday, 25 November 2009 (19:00)
CERN

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
23 Nov 2009
24 Nov 2009
25 Nov 2009
AM
09:00
WG2: Common Characterization and Physics Issues (until 13:00) (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
09:00 GridPix/Gossip detectors with DME-CO2 mixtures - Frederik Hartjes (NIKHEF)   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
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09:20 Recent test results of TGEM-Prototypes in INR, Moscow - Vladimir Razin Andrey Reshetin   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
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09:40 Photomultipliers based on micropattern gaseous detecors: what was done, what could be done - Vladimir Peskov (Pole Universitaire Leonardo de Vinci)   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
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10:00 Photoelectron extraction and collection efficiency studies in CsI-THGEM for Ne based mixtures - Carlos Azevedo (University of Aveiro)   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
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10:20 --- Break ---
10:40 Status of the Front Tracker development for the new SBS spectrometer at Jefferson Lab - Evaristo Cisbani (INFN Rome Gruppo Sanità)   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
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11:00 High intensity beam studies of sparks in resistively-coated and non-coated Micromegas detectors - Shuoxing Wu (CEA Saclay/USTC Hefei)   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
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11:20 GridPix in cool Xe or Ar for the XENON experiment - Maarten van Dijk (NIKHEF)   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
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11:40 Measuring X-ray polarisation using 3D photo-electron path reconstruction with GridPix - Sjoerd Nauta (NIKHEF)   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
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09:00
WG7: Common Test Facilities (until 13:00) (6/2-004)
09:00 October Test beam results: THGEM group - Jarda Polak   (6/2-004)
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09:15 October Test beam results: MM TPC group - Paul Colas (DAPNIA)   (6/2-004)
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09:30 October Test beam results: Micromegas detector studies for CLAS12 and COMPASS - Damien Paul Franco Neyret (DAPNIA)   (6/2-004)
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09:45 October Test beam results: GEM TPC group - Dr Jochen Kaminski (Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Univ. Bonn, Physikalisches Institut)   (6/2-004)
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10:00 Preliminary analysis of the umegas telescope - Eleni Ntomari (Institute of Nuclear Physics-Nat. Cent. for Sci. Res. Demokritos)   (6/2-004)
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10:20 --- break ---
10:35 VFAT readout for the GEM telescope - Eraldo Oliveri (Universita' Degli Studi di Siena-INFN, Sezione di Pisa-Unknown)   (6/2-004)
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10:55 GEM telescope & CMS GEM prototype preliminary results - Gabriele Croci (CERN and University of Siena, Siena, Italy)   (6/2-004)
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11:15 PVSS slow control for HV - Konstantinos Karakostas (National Technical Univ. of Athens-Unknown-Unknown)   (6/2-004)
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11:35 Track Fitting with the umegas telescope - Konstantinos Karakostas (National Technical Univ. of Athens-Unknown-Unknown)   (6/2-004)
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11:55 Discussion on 2010 test beam   (6/2-004)
09:00
Plenary Session (until 13:00) (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
09:00 Current world-wide detector R&D efforts for a linear e+e- collider - Marcel Stanitzki (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
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09:45 Recent Developments in THGEM Detectors - amos breskin (weizmann institute)   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
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10:30 --- Coffee break ---
10:50 Collaboration Board News - Silvia Dalla Torre (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
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11:10 Technology Transfer Network - Hartmut Hillemanns (CERN)   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
11:40 WG1: Technologies and New Detectors - Summary - Serge Duarte Pinto (CERN) Paul Colas (DAPNIA)   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
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12:10 WG2: MPGD Physics - Summary - Harry Van Der Graaf (NIKHEF) Maximilien Chefdeville (LAPP, Annecy)   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
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PM
13:00
Plenary Session (until 14:00) (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
13:00 Welcome and Opening - Leszek Ropelewski (CERN)   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
13:10 RD51 Collaboration News - Dr Maxim Titov (CEA Saclay)   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
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14:00
WG1: Technological Aspects and Development of New Detector Structures (until 19:00) (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
EVO link
14:00 CMS upgrade plans and design studies - Archana Sharma (CERN) Hans Postema (CERN) Stephane Bally (CERN)   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
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14:20 MAMMA R&D, a progress report - Venetios Polychronakos (Department of Physics) Joerg Wotschack (CERN)   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
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14:40 Micro Pixel Chamber as endcap muon detector of ATLAS upgrade - Atsuhiko Ochi (Department of Physics)   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
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15:00 Detector development projects in Budapest - Gergoe Hamar (Eotvos Lorand University-Unknown-Unknown)   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
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15:20 --- coffee break ---
15:50 TH-COBRA, a thick-hole structure for IBF reduction - joao veloso (university of aveiro) Mr Carlos Azevedo (Universidade de Aveiro)   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
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16:10 First observation of Cherenkov light with triple CsI coated THGEM - Paolo Martinengo (CERN) Vladimir Peskov (Pole Universitaire Leonardo de Vinci)   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
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16:30 Updated on GEM muon tomography project and future plans - Kondo GNANVO (Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Fl, USA) Marcus Hohlmann (Florida Tech) Amilkar Quintero (Florida Institute of Technology)   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
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16:50 Status of GEM detectors for STAR-FGT upgrade - Mr Douglas Kenneth Hasell (MIT)   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
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17:10 Resistive layers, grids and plates - Prof. imad laktineh (ipn LYON)   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
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14:00
WG5: MPGD Related Electronics (until 19:00) (6/2-004)
14:00 Welcome, Announcements, EVO - Hans Muller (CERN) Dr Jochen Kaminski (Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Univ. Bonn, Physikalisches Institut)   (6/2-004)
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14:05 From Chip matrix to 'ideal chip' for MPGDs - Dr Sorin Martoiu (CERN)   (6/2-004)
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14:25 MSGCROC - An ASIC for high count rate readout of position sensitive gas chambers - Dr Bartosz Mindur (AGH University of Science and Technology)   (6/2-004)
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14:50 VFAT : A 128 channel chip for charge sensitive readout of multi-channel silicon & gas particle detectors - Paul Aspell (CERN)   (6/2-004)
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15:10 Ethernet-driven control and data acquisition scheme for the Timepix-based TPC readout - Uli Schaefer (Institut fur Physik - Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet)   (6/2-004)
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15:30 --- break ---
15:50 News from the Scalable Readout System - Hans Muller (CERN)   (6/2-004)
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16:05 Analogue chip adapter for SRS - Sorin Martoiu (CERN)   (6/2-004)
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16:25 Porting the DATE detector readout to GbE - Filippo Costa (cern)   (6/2-004)
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16:40 DATE status for the NEXT experiment - Mr Luis Diaz (DBA)   (6/2-004)
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16:50 Status VME-based readout system for Jlab GEM tracker - Evaristo Cisbani (INFN Rome Gruppo Sanità)   (6/2-004)
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17:10 News on DTC link for SRS - Dong Wang (Hua-Zhong Normal University-Unknown-Unknown)   (6/2-004)
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17:25 ESD diode integration on MM chamber frontend - Hans Muller (CERN)   (6/2-004)
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14:00
WG4: Simulations and Software Tools (until 18:00) (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
14:00 Electron transport calculations in detector gas mixtures - Steve Biagi   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
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14:45 Xenon electroluminescence assessment in uniform field geometry and GEM using Garfield and Magboltz - Carlos Alberto Bastos De Oliveira   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
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15:15 Penning transfers: learning about the mechanism from gain curves - Ozkan Sahin (Uludag University)   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
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15:45 Penning measurement programme - Ilhan Tapan (Uludað Üniversitesi-Unknown-Unknown)   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
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16:00 --- Pause ---
16:15 Gossip - Willem Koppert (NIKHEF-Unknown-Unknown) Harry van der Graaf (NIKHEF, Amsterdam, the Netherlands)   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
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17:00 (no title) - Heinrich Schindler (Technische Universitaet Wien)   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
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17:30 Micromegas mesh transparency - Konstantinos Nikolopoulos (University of Athens)   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
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14:00
WG6: Production (until 18:00) (6/2-004)
14:00 The G.BOPP+Co. AG - Patrick Hug (G.BOPP + Co. AG)   (6/2-004)
14:30 News on the EN/ICE workshop - Hans Taureg (CERN)   (6/2-004)
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15:00 Extension of the present EN/ICE workshop - machines description - Rui De Oliveira (CERN)   (6/2-004)
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18:00
Collaboration Board (until 19:30) (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
20:00
Collaboration Dinner (until 23:30) (Bois Joly, route de la Telecabine, Crozet)
14:00
Plenary Session (until 16:20) (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
14:00 WG4: Software Tools - Summary - Alain Bellerive (Carleton University) Rob (IST/CFIF)   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
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14:30 WG5: Electronics - Summary - Hans Muller (CERN) Jochen Kaminski (Universität Bonn)   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
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15:00 WG6: Production - Summary - Hans Taureg (CERN, Geneva) Rui De Oliveira (CERN) Ioanis Giomataris (Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA-Saclay))   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
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15:30 WG7: Test Facilities - Summary - Matteo Alfonsi (CERN) Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens)   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
16:00 Closing Remarks   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)