RD51 mini week

from Monday 22 February 2010 (14:00) to Thursday 25 February 2010 (12:00)
CERN (IT Auditorium)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
22 Feb 2010
23 Feb 2010
24 Feb 2010
AM
09:00
WG2 - Common characterization and physics issues (until 12:30)
09:00 Progress on double phase pure argon TPC - Filippo Resnati (Institut fuer Teilchenphysik-Eidgenossische Tech. Hochschule Zue)  
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09:20 Recent measurements of gain fluctuations with an InGrid/TimePix detector - Paul Colas (CEA/Irfu)  
09:35 Discharge probability study of a Triple-GEM detector irradiated with neutrons - Gabriele Croci (CERN and University of Siena, Siena, Italy)  
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09:55 Results of Micromegas November 2009 test beam - Shuoxing Wu (IRFU-cea - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay)  
10:15 --- break ---
10:45 NewGas, a new gas system for GridPix detectors - Frederik Hartjes (NIKHEF)  
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11:05 First tests of gaseous detectors assembled from resistive mesh - Vladimir Peskov (Pole Universitaire Leonardo de Vinci)  
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11:20 Test beam at CERN on Micromegas for CLAS12 and COMPASS - Damien Paul Franco Neyret (DAPNIA)  
Transparents
11:40 Spark rates: simulations and comparison test beam data (CLAS12) - Sebastien Procureur (Service de Physique Nucleaire (SPhN))  
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09:00
WG5 - Electronics (until 12:30)
09:00 Welcome and Announcements - Hans Muller (CERN) Dr Jochen Kaminski (Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Univ. Bonn, Physikalisches Institut)  
09:05 Status of the Scalable Readout System - Hans Muller (CERN)  
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09:30 Frontend Hybrid with APV25 chip - Sorin Martoiu (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))  
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09:45 Digitizer card in SRS “C-format” - Sorin Martoiu (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))  
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10:00 FEC features and first Application - Jose F. Toledo Alarcon (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia)  
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10:30 --- break ---
10:45 SRS user group forum  
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12:05 AOB - Discussion  
PM
14:00
WG1 - Technological aspects & development of new detector structures (until 19:00)
14:00 CMS upgrade feasibility studies - Archana Sharma (CERN)  
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14:20 Gas flow simulations for CMS design - Stefano Colafranceschi (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF) - Istituto Nazionale Fisi)  
14:30 MAMMA - Joerg Wotschack (CERN) Mr Marco Villa (CERN)  
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14:50 Update on spherical GEMs - Serge Duarte Pinto (CERN)  
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15:10 --- break ---
15:40 GEM@school - Gabriele Croci (CERN and University of Siena, Siena, Italy) Dr Richard Plackett (CERN)  
16:00 Portability and policapillary for X ray imaging - Fabrizio Murtas (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF))  
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16:20 GEM module for Large Prototype TPC - Stefano Caiazza (Desy & Hamburg University)  
16:40 Micromegas for DHCal - Catherine Juliette Adloff (Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et des Particules (IN2P3)) Maximilien Chefdeville (LAPP, Annecy)  
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17:00 GEMs for DHCal - Prof. Jaehoon Yu (UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON) Andrew White (University of Texas at Arlington) Mr Seongtae Park (UTA)  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
WG4 - Simulation and Software (until 19:00)
14:00 Field calculations using neBEM  
14:30 Introduction avalanche statistics  
14:45 Avalanche Fluctuations I  
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15:15 Avalanche Fluctuations II  
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15:45 --- Coffee ---
16:00 Micromesh Electron Transparency - Konstantinos Nikolopoulos (University of Athens)  
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16:15 Neutrons in gases  
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16:45 C++, Geant4 and some management  
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12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
WG6 - Production & WG7 - Test Beam Facilities (until 17:00)
14:00 News - Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens)  
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14:10 Slow control for RD51 TB - Konstantinos Karakostas (National Technical Univ. of Athens-Unknown-Unknown)  
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14:25 TB tracks - Konstantinos Karakostas (National Technical Univ. of Athens-Unknown-Unknown)  
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14:40 GEM TPC group - Jochen Kaminski (Universität Bonn)  
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14:50 Micromegas tracking TPC tests - TB2010 plans - Georgios Fanourakis (National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos" (NRCPS))  
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15:00 Micromegas for DHCal - TB2010 plans - Maximilien Chefdeville (LAPP, Annecy)  
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15:10 Micromegas tests - TB2010 plans - Dr David ATTIE (CEA/DSM/DAPNIA/SPP)  
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15:20 CMS upgrade - TB2010 plans - Archana Sharma (CERN)  
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