Name: RD51 Collaboration Meeting and Lectures
Start: 2020-06-22T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2020-06-26T17:00:00+02:00
Location: remote-only by Vidyo

RD51 Collaboration Meeting and Lectures

from Monday, 22 June 2020 (09:00) to Friday, 26 June 2020 (17:00)

Monday, 22 June 2020
09:00
09:00 - 12:00
Contributions

09:00 Advanced Time over Threshold method of charge measuring for time-of-flight and calorimetric applications - Evgueni Usenko (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU))

09:25 VMM3a hybrid firmware improvements - Patrick Schwäbig (Uni Bonn)

09:45 VMM3a hybrid quality control test system - Finn Jaekel (Uni Bonn)

10:05 VMM3a hybrid noise measurements - Emorfili Terzimpasoglou (Uni-Bonn HISKP)

10:40 Summary on WG5.1 meetings - Lucian Scharenberg (CERN, University of Bonn (DE))

11:00 VTC test - hardware demo - Marek Hracek (Czech Technical University (CZ))

11:10 VTC test - software demo - Sorina Popescu (F) Sorina Popescu (The University of Kansas (US))
14:00

14:00 - 15:00
15:00
15:00 - 18:00
Contributions

15:15 Introduction to xenon-based detectors - Leslie Rogers (University of Texas at Arlington)
Tuesday, 23 June 2020
09:00
09:00 - 12:20
Contributions

09:00 DMM & TMM: the Double and Triple Micro-Mesh gaseous structures for high gain and ultra-low IBF purpose - Zhiyong Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China (CN))

09:20 Ways of development of the MPGD methodology - Vladimir Razin (Institute for Nuclear Research (INR)-Russian Academy of Sciences)

09:40 The Upgrade of the ALICE TPC - Robert Helmut Munzer (Goethe University Frankfurt (DE))

10:00 Update on GE11 construction and commissioning - Federica Maria Simone (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))

10:40 Status of NSW Micromegas production - Mario Antonelli (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))

11:00 First evidence of luminescence in He:CF4-filled CYGNO TPC induced by non-ionizing electrons - Giorgio DHO

11:20 Single UV-photon detection with RPWELL-based detectors - Purba Bhattacharya (INFN, Cagliari)

11:40 Considerations about bubble dynamics in LHM detectors - Andrea Tesi (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))

12:00 The COMPASS GEM upgrade - Karl Flöthner (HISKP-Uni-Bonn)
14:00

14:00 - 15:00
15:00
15:00 - 18:00
Contributions

15:15 Boundary element method - Supratik Mukhopadhyay (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (IN))

16:15 Introduction to the PAI model - Igor Smirnov (NRC Kurchatov Institute PNPI (RU))
Wednesday, 24 June 2020
09:00
09:00 - 09:30
Contributions

09:00 News from Collaboration Board - Atsuhiko Ochi (Kobe University (JP)) Yorgos Tsipolitis (NTUA) Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR))

09:10 Snowmass 2021: Instrumentation Frontier & MPGD - Maxim TITOV (CEA Saclay)

09:20 RD51 Collaboration Meeting in Santiago and topical workshop on “New Horizons in TPCs" - Diego Gonzalez Diaz (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES)) Paul Colas (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))
09:30
09:30 - 12:30
Contributions

09:30 Induction of GEM to GEM discharges by using a single hole THGEM - Nikola Poljak (University of Zagreb (HR))

09:50 Studies on charging-up of single Gas Electron Multiplier - Vishal Kumar (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)

10:10 GEM stack optimization for GE21 and ME0 (cross-talk studies, discharge mitigation) - Jeremie Alexandre Merlin (INFN-Bari)

10:30 GEM foil optimization for GE21 and ME0 (rate capability issues, HV filtering optimization) - Francesco Fallavollita (Università e INFN Pavia)

11:10 On the space resolution of the u-RWELL - Matteo Giovannetti (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))

11:30 The CYGNO project: performance and stability of Optical Readout GEM-TPC - Davide Pinci (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

11:50 Studies of non-linearity in the response of an Optical Readout GEM-TPC - Francesco Renga (INFN Roma)

12:10 Light measurements in the visible / NIR with a high-pressure TPC - Zachary Chen-Wishart (Royal Holloway University of London)
14:00
14:00 - 15:00
Contributions

14:00 Crosstalk in double-segmented GEM foils for the CMS muon upgrade - Stephen Butalla (Florida Institute of Technology (US))

14:20 Measurements with the Dual-Polarity Ion Drift Chamber (DP-IDC) - David Marques
15:00
15:00 - 17:00
Contributions

15:00 Hands-on Open Source finite elements - Josh Renner (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES)) Joshua Renner (UC Berkeley / Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
Thursday, 25 June 2020
09:00
09:00 - 12:00
Contributions

09:05 Development of a Simulation Framework for Spherical Proportional Counters - Konstantinos Nikolopoulos (University of Birmingham (GB)) Robert James Ward Robert James Ward (University of Birmingham (GB))

09:40 Charge sharing in single and double GEMs - Promita Roy (Saha Institute Of Nuclear Physics) Supratik Mukhopadhyay (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (IN)) Supratik Mukhopadhyay (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (IN))

10:00 micro-RWELL application to thermal neutron detection - Lia Lavezzi (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))

10:40 C++ Interface of neBEM in Garfield++ - Heinrich Schindler (CERN) Supratik Mukhopadhyay (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (IN)) Supratik Mukhopadhyay (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (IN))

11:00 Charge density limits for discharge formation in THGEM structures: measurement and simulations - Lukas Lautner (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE)) Piotr Gasik (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

11:20 Update on Avalanche Simulations in a Triple GEM - Anand Kumar Dubey (Department of Atomic Energy (IN)) Aritra Bal (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
14:00
14:00 - 17:00
Contributions

14:00 Charging-up simulations for GEM and Micromegas - Pedro Correia (University of Aveiro)

15:00 Which ions are producing the signals ?: - Rob Veenhof (Uludag University (TR))

16:00 Penning effect - Ozkan Sahin (Uludag University)
Friday, 26 June 2020
09:00
09:00 - 12:00
Contributions

09:00 R&D on High-rate uRWELL and RWELL detectors - Song Gu You Lyu (University of Science and Technology of China (CN))

09:20 Production and performance of Micromegas detectors using thermal bonding method - Jianxin Feng (University of Science and Technology of China (CN))

09:40 Search for new (TH)GEM coating materials using spectroscopy methods - Berkin Ulukutlu (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE)) Piotr Gasik (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

10:00 First results using a 2-D Strip-readout Micromegas detector with DLC Anode incl. Pulseshape discussion - Christoph Jagfeld (Ludwig Maximilians Universitat (DE))

10:40 Mechanical aspects of CERN GDD 10cm x 10cm new PICOSEC detector - Antonija Utrobicic (CERN)

11:00 WG5 / Advanced Time over Threshold method of charge measuring for time-of-flight and calorimetric applications - Evgueni Usenko (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU))

11:20 Micromegas with resistive sharing for T2K upgrade - Alain Delbart (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

11:40 Capacitive sharing read/out for High space resolution detectors with reduced FE electronics channels count - Kondo GNANVO (Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Fl, USA)
14:00
14:00 - 17:00
Contributions

14:00 Read-out electronics - Sorina Popescu (The University of Kansas (US))