RD51 Collaboration Meeting and Lectures

from Monday 22 June 2020 (09:00) to Friday 26 June 2020 (17:00)
remote-only by Vidyo

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
22 Jun 2020
23 Jun 2020
24 Jun 2020
25 Jun 2020
26 Jun 2020
AM
09:00
WG5 - Electronics for MPGD - Hans Muller Jochen Kaminski (Universitaet Bonn (DE)) (until 12:00)
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)  
10:25 --- coffee break ---
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))  
09:00
WG1 - Technological Aspects and Development of New Detector Structures - Filippo Resnati (CERN) Paul Colas (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)) (until 12:20)
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))  
10:20 --- Break ---
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)  
09:00
Communications - Leszek Ropelewski (CERN) Silvia Dalla Torre (Universita e INFN, Trieste (IT)) (until 09:30)
09:00 News from Collaboration Board - Yorgos Tsipolitis (NTUA) Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR)) Atsuhiko Ochi (Kobe University (JP))  
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" - Paul Colas (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)) Diego Gonzalez Diaz (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))  
09:30
WG2 - Detector Physics and Performance - Francisco Ignacio Garcia Fuentes (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI)) Florian Maximilian Brunbauer (CERN, Vienna University of Technology (AT)) (until 12:30)
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 - Mr Vishal Kumar (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)  
10:10 GEM stack optimization for GE21 and ME0 (cross-talk studies, discharge mitigation) - Dr 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)  
10:50 --- Coffee break ---
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)  
09:00
WG4 - Modelling of Physics Processes and Software Tools - Rob Veenhof (Uludag University (TR)) Ozkan Sahin (Uludag University (TR)) Piet Verwilligen (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT)) (until 12:00)
09:05 Development of a Simulation Framework for Spherical Proportional Counters - Robert James Ward Robert James Ward (University of Birmingham (GB)) Konstantinos Nikolopoulos (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))  
10:20 --- Morning Tea break ---
10:40 C++ Interface of neBEM in Garfield++ - Supratik Mukhopadhyay (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (IN)) Supratik Mukhopadhyay (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (IN)) Heinrich Schindler (CERN)  
11:00 Charge density limits for discharge formation in THGEM structures: measurement and simulations - Piotr Gasik (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE)) Lukas Lautner (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (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)  
09:00
WG6 - Production and Industrialization - Fabien Jeanneau (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)) Rui De Oliveira (CERN) (until 12:00)
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 - Piotr Gasik (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE)) Berkin Ulukutlu (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (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))  
10:20 --- coffee freak ---
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)  
PM
14:00
RD51 MB meeting - Leszek Ropelewski (CERN) Silvia Dalla Torre (Universita e INFN, Trieste (IT)) (until 15:00)
15:00
RD51 Lectures - Rob Veenhof (Uludag University (TR)) (until 18:00)
15:15 Introduction to xenon-based detectors - Leslie Rogers (University of Texas at Arlington)  
14:00
RD51 Collaboration Board - Yorgos Tsipolitis (NTUA) Atsuhiko Ochi (Kobe University (JP)) (until 15:00)
15:00
RD51 Lectures - Rob Veenhof (Uludag University (TR)) (until 18:00)
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))  
14:00
WG2 - Detector Physics and Performance - Francisco Ignacio Garcia Fuentes (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI)) Florian Maximilian Brunbauer (CERN, Vienna University of Technology (AT)) (until 15:00)
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  
14:40 --- Coffee break ---
15:00
RD51 Lectures - Rob Veenhof (Uludag University (TR)) (until 17:00)
15:00 Hands-on Open Source finite elements - Josh Renner (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES)) Joshua Renner (UC Berkeley / Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)  
14:00
RD51 Lectures - Rob Veenhof (Uludag University (TR)) (until 17:00)
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)  
14:00
RD51 Lectures - Rob Veenhof (Uludag University (TR)) (until 17:00)
14:00 Read-out electronics - Sorina Popescu (The University of Kansas (US))