RD51 Collaboration Meeting

from Monday 24 September 2018 (14:00) to Thursday 27 September 2018 (13:10)
CERN (31/3-004)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
24 Sept 2018
25 Sept 2018
26 Sept 2018
27 Sept 2018
AM
09:00 --- Break for people that want to follow CERN EP Department - R&D on experimental technologies - Workshop 2 (https://indico.cern.ch/event/743661/) ---
10:30
WG2 - Detector Physics and Performance - Maximilien Chefdeville (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Dr Florian Maximilian Brunbauer (CERN, Vienna University of Technology (AT)) (until 12:10)
10:30 CANCELLED - Imaging using triple GEMs at VECC - Anand Kumar Dubey (Department of Atomic Energy (IN))  
10:30 Status of photocathode characterisation setup at GDD lab - Florian Maximilian Brunbauer (CERN, Vienna University of Technology (AT))  
10:50 Preliminary discharge probability studies with THGEMs - Piotr Gasik (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE)) Berkin Ulukutlu (Technische Universität München)  
11:10 Resistive gaseous detectors, design, performance and perspective - Vladimir Peskov (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU))  
11:30 MPGD study for the HL-LHC Beam Gas Vertex Profile monitoring system - Robert Kieffer (University of London (GB))  
11:50 Measurements of the impact of mesh geometry on Micromegas discharges - Paolo Iengo (CERN) Givi Sekhniaidze (Universita e sezione INFN di Napoli (IT))  
09:00
WG6 - Production and Industrialization - Fabien Jeanneau (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Rui De Oliveira (CERN) (until 10:30)
09:00 Status of the Micromegas NSW Production - Mauro Iodice (INFN - Sezione di Roma Tre)  
09:30 News from DLC : Production in Japan and T2K upgrade - Paul Colas (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
09:50 Preparation and resistivity measurement of the nitrogen doped DLC - Yi Zhou (University of Science and Technology of China (CN)) Yi Zhou (University of Science&Technology of China)  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
WG7 - Common Test Facilities - Eraldo Oliveri (CERN) Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR)) (until 12:35)
11:00 News and October Beam (last beam before CERN Long Shut Down) - Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR)) Eraldo Oliveri (CERN)  
11:05 SCREAM (LAPP, WIS) - Dan Shaked Renous (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))  
11:25 Thermal bonded MM & uRWELL - Jianxin Feng (USTC)  
11:35 PICOSEC, report and plans - Lukas Sohl (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
11:45 u-PIC - Atsuhiko Ochi (Kobe University (JP))  
11:55 VMM tests at a GEM detector and the multiplexed Micromegas prototype for GBAR - Gianluca Janka (ETH Zurich (CH)) Michael Lupberger (CERN)  
12:05 HFS & RD50 - Dr Sebastian White (University of Virginia (US))  
12:15 FTOF - Dr Xin Li (Univ of Sci & Tech of China)  
12:25 THGEM-based PDs - Fulvio Tessarotto (Universita e INFN Trieste (IT)) Stefano Levorato (Universita e INFN Trieste (IT)) Fulvio Tessarotto (INFN Trieste)  
PM
14:00
Plenary - Leszek Ropelewski (CERN) Silvia Dalla Torre (Universita e INFN Trieste (IT)) (until 14:30)
14:30
WG4 - Modelling of Physics Processes and Software Tools - Rob Veenhof (Uludag University (TR)) Ozkan Sahin (Uludag University) Piet Verwilligen (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT)) Ozkan Sahin (Uludag University (TR)) (until 16:20)
14:30 Current status of MPGD simulation in negative ion gas for direction-sensitive dark matter search - Mr Hirohisa Ishiura (Kobe University(JP))  
14:45 HEED++: history, structure and physics - Igor Smirnov (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institut (RU))  
15:00 First results of cluster size determination experiment by using Rayleigh Scattering - Yalcin Kalkan (Uludag University (TR))  
15:15 Recent Gas Gain Simulations - Ozkan Sahin (Uludag University (TR))  
15:30 Event reconstruction and pattern recognition analysis with different readout granularities on 2D/3D using REST - Javier Galan Lacarra (CEA Saclay)  
16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30
WG4 - Modelling of Physics Processes and Software Tools - Piet Verwilligen (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT)) Rob Veenhof (Uludag University (TR)) Ozkan Sahin (Uludag University (TR)) Ozkan Sahin (Uludag University) (until 17:30)
16:30 Detailed simulation of the PICOSEC Micromegas Detector with GARFIELD++ - Spyros Tzamarias (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR)) Spyros Tzamarias (Hellenic Open University) Konstantinos Paraschou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR)) Kostas Kordas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR))  
17:00 Phenomenological Modeling of the PICOSEC Timing Characteristics - Spyros Tzamarias (Hellenic Open University) Spyros Tzamarias (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR)) Konstantinos Paraschou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR))  
14:30
WG1 - New Structures and Technologies - Paul Colas (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Filippo Resnati (CERN) (until 16:00)
14:30 Diamon-Like Carbon (DLC) photocathode for PICOSEC detector - Xu Wang Xu Wang (University of Science and Technology of China (CN)) Xu Wang (wangxu1@mail.ustc.edu.cn)  
14:50 A systematic numerical study on different Micromegas for HV stability - Deb Sankar Bhattacharya (Julius Max. Universitaet Wuerzburg (DE))  
15:10 The MPGD-Based Photon Detectors for the upgrade of COMPASS RICH-1 and beyond - Fulvio Tessarotto (Universita e INFN Trieste (IT))  
15:30 Overview and first events of the ProtoDUNE Single-Phase experiement - Roberto Acciarri (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
15:45 Development of a new GEM-based TPC focal plane detector for the MAGIX experiment - Stefano Caiazza (University of Bologna - INFN Bologna)  
16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30
WG1 - New Structures and Technologies - Filippo Resnati (CERN) Paul Colas (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) (until 18:00)
18:00
Collaboration Board - joao veloso (university of aveiro) Joao F.C.A. Veloso (Uni Aveiro) Atsuhiko Ochi (Kobe University (JP)) (until 19:00)
19:00
Management Board - Joao F.C.A. Veloso (Uni Aveiro) Leszek Ropelewski (CERN) Silvia Dalla Torre (Universita e INFN Trieste (IT)) joao veloso (university of aveiro) Atsuhiko Ochi (Kobe University (JP)) (until 20:00)
14:00
WG5 - Electronics for MPGDs - Jochen Kaminski (University of Bonn (DE)) Hans Muller (until 16:00)
14:00 RD51 participation on ATLAS VMM wafer production ( Discussion with teams, Vinnie present ) - Hans Muller  
14:30 New SRS electronics for new new frontends - Hans Muller  
15:00 VMM and the SRS - update - Dorothea Pfeiffer (CERN) Michael Lupberger (CERN)  
15:20 VMM frontend plans for Magix - Stefano Caiazza (JGU Mainz) Stefano Caiazza (JGU - University of Mainz - KPH institute) Stefano Caiazza (University of Bologna - INFN Bologna) Stefano Caiazza (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE))  
15:40 Status new SRS software - Stefano Caiazza (JGU - University of Mainz - KPH institute) Stefano Caiazza (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE)) Stefano Caiazza (University of Bologna - INFN Bologna) Stefano Caiazza (JGU Mainz)  
16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30
DISCO - discharge consortium initiative - Piotr Gasik (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE)) (until 18:30)
16:30 Kick-off meeting summary - Piotr Gasik (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE))  
16:40 Why are multi-MPGD stuctures better? - Fabio Sauli (TERA Foundation (IT))  
17:00 Spark Detection System development (GEM QA) - Philip Hauer (University of Bonn (DE)) Markus Ball (University of Bonn (DE))  
17:15 R&D activities in Zagreb - Mirko Planinic (University of Zagreb (HR)) Antonija Utrobicic (University of Zagreb (HR))  
17:30 Effects of discharges on the resistive layer - Ourania Sidiropoulou (CERN)  
17:50 Discharges with resistive layers (ATLAS NSW) - Maxence Vandenbroucke (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
18:05 DISCO: next steps, common project - Piotr Gasik (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE))