RD51 mini week

Jul 19, 2010, 9:00 AM → Jul 20, 2010, 6:00 PM Europe/Zurich

13/2-005 (CERN)

Leszek Ropelewski (CERN), maxim titov

Mon, July 19

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM → 6:00 PM WG1: Technological aspects

Title: WG1 session, RD51 mini week
Description: Large areas and new technologies.
Community: Universe

Meeting Access Information:
- Meeting URL
http://evo.caltech.edu/evoNext/koala.jnlp?meeting=MaMDMt2D2lDIDe989aDI9a
- Phone Bridge
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Central European Summer Time (+0200)
Start 2010-07-19 12:00
End 2010-07-19 19:00
Japan Standard Time (+0900)
Start 2010-07-19 19:00
End 2010-07-20 02:00
Eastern Daylight Time (-0400)
Start 2010-07-19 06:00
End 2010-07-19 13:00
Pacific Daylight Time (-0700)
Start 2010-07-19 03:00
End 2010-07-19 10:00

EVO Phone Bridge Telephone Numbers:

• USA (Caltech, Pasadena, CA)
  +1 626 395 2112
• Switzerland (CERN, Geneva)
  +41 22 76 71400
• Slovakia (UPJS, Kosice)
  +421 55 234 2420
• Italy (INFN, several cities)
  http://server10.infn.it/video/index.php?page=telephone_numbers
  Enter '4000' to access the EVO bridge
• Germany (DESY, Hamburg)
  +49 40 8998 1340
• USA (BNL, Upton, NY)
  +1 631 344 6100
• United Kingdom (University of Manchester)
  +44 161 306 6802
• Australia (ARCS)
  +61
  Adelaide 08 8463 1011
  Brisbane 07 3139 0705
  Canberra 02 6112 8742
  Hobart 03 623 70281
  Melbourne 03 8685 8362
  Perth 08 6461 6718
  Sydney 02 8212 4591
• Netherlands (Nikhef, Amsterdam)
  +31 20 7165293
  Dial '2' at the prompt
• Canada (TRIUMF, Vancouver)
  +1 604 222 7700
• Czech Republic (CESNET, Prague)
  +420 95 007 2386
• USA (MIT, Cambridge, MA)
  +1 617 715 4691
• France (RAP, Paris)
  +33 144 27 81 50

EVO link EVO link

2:00 PM Infrared thermal stretching of GEM foils

Speaker: Mr Mike Staib (Florida Institute of Technology)

Slides IR Thermal Stretching of Large Area GEM Foils

2:20 PM Experience with micromegas chambers with resistive strips

Speaker: Givi Sekhniaidze (INFN, Sezione di Napoli)

Slides RD-51-July-2010-Givi-v1.pdf RD-51-July-2010-Givi-v1.pptx

2:50 PM Recent Micromegas Activities in USTC

Speakers: Liang Guan (Univ. of Science & Tech. of China), Dr Zizong Xu

Slides RD51WG1_liang.pdf

3:10 PM Break

3:30 PM Resistive meshes and tests of resistive THGEMs

Speaker: Vladimir Peskov

Slides PeskovRD51_talks,_July2010.pdf PeskovRD51_talks,_July2010.ppt

4:00 PM Update from CMS MPGD project

Speaker: Archana Sharma (CERN)

Slides RD51-mini-week-Sharma-2010.pdf RD51-mini-week-Sharma-2010.pptx

Tue, July 20

9:00 AM → 1:00 PM WG7: Test beam

Title: RD51 micro week
Description: Tuesday sessions of the RD51 meeting: working groups 7, 2 and 4.
Community: Universe

Meeting Access Information:
- Meeting URL
http://evo.caltech.edu/evoNext/koala.jnlp?meeting=MeMMMu2M2sDeDB9D9uDv9e
- Phone Bridge
ID: 2132466
Central European Summer Time (+0200)
Start 2010-07-20 08:00
End 2010-07-20 19:00
Japan Standard Time (+0900)
Start 2010-07-20 15:00
End 2010-07-21 02:00
Eastern Daylight Time (-0400)
Start 2010-07-20 02:00
End 2010-07-20 13:00
Pacific Daylight Time (-0700)
Start 2010-07-19 23:00
End 2010-07-20 10:00

EVO Phone Bridge Telephone Numbers:

• USA (Caltech, Pasadena, CA)
  +1 626 395 2112
• Switzerland (CERN, Geneva)
  +41 22 76 71400
• Slovakia (UPJS, Kosice)
  +421 55 234 2420
• Italy (INFN, several cities)
  http://server10.infn.it/video/index.php?page=telephone_numbers
  Enter '4000' to access the EVO bridge
• Germany (DESY, Hamburg)
  +49 40 8998 1340
• USA (BNL, Upton, NY)
  +1 631 344 6100
• United Kingdom (University of Manchester)
  +44 161 306 6802
• Australia (ARCS)
  +61
  Adelaide 08 8463 1011
  Brisbane 07 3139 0705
  Canberra 02 6112 8742
  Hobart 03 623 70281
  Melbourne 03 8685 8362
  Perth 08 6461 6718
  Sydney 02 8212 4591
• Netherlands (Nikhef, Amsterdam)
  +31 20 7165293
  Dial '2' at the prompt
• Canada (TRIUMF, Vancouver)
  +1 604 222 7700
• Czech Republic (CESNET, Prague)
  +420 95 007 2386
• USA (MIT, Cambridge, MA)
  +1 617 715 4691
• France (RAP, Paris)
  +33 144 27 81 50

Evo Link EVO link

9:00 AM Report from June test beam

Speaker: Matteo Alfonsi (CERN)

Slides RD51_WG7_2010_VII_testbeamreport.pdf RD51_WG7_2010_VII_testbeamreport.ppt

9:20 AM Micromegas ILC-TPC beam tests with a high intensity hadron beam

Speaker: Paul Colas (CEA/Irfu)

Slides Colas_WG7HighIntensitytest.pdf Colas_WG7HighIntensitytest.ppt

9:40 AM Preliminary results with CMS Triple GEM prototypes

Speaker: Stefano Colafranceschi (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF) - Istituto Nazionale Fisi)

Slides beamtest_CMS_summary_v2.pdf beamtest_CMS_summary_v2.ppt

10:00 AM Report from LAPP group

Speaker: Maximilien Chefdeville (LAPP, Annecy)

Slides tb_report_wg7.pdf tb_report_wg7.ppt

10:20 AM Coffee break

10:40 AM GEM Tracker: results from June test beam and work in progress

Slides GEMTracker_miniweekJuly2010.pdf GEMTracker_miniweekJuly2010.ppt

11:00 AM 3D Track Reconstruction algorithm for Micromegas tracker

11:20 AM August test beam: tentative setup

Slides RD51_WG7_2010_VII_nextbeam.pdf RD51_WG7_2010_VII_nextbeam.ppt

11:40 AM GEM and THGEM detectors for hadron calorimetry: test beam plans

Slides RD51_Hugo.pdf

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM → 3:40 PM WG2: Physics issues

The EVO connection will be the same as for WG7 above.

Minutes wg2_minutes.pdf

2:00 PM First results from the double phase argon LEM-TPC with a projective 2D anode

Speaker: Filippo Resnati (Institut fuer Teilchenphysik-Eidgenossische Tech. Hochschule Zue)

Slides RD51MiniWeekFResnati.pdf

2:20 PM The study of TGEMs and RETGEMs for the possible ALICE RICH upgrade

Speaker: Himank Anand

Slides Study_of_discharges_in_TGEMs_and_RETGEMs_CERN_[Autosaved].pdf Study_of_discharges_in_TGEMs_and_RETGEMs_CERN_[Autosaved].ppt

2:40 PM Use of GEM for hadronic calorimetry at ILC

Speaker: Prof. Jaehoon Yu (UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON)

Slides rd51-mini-cern-july10.pdf rd51-mini-cern-july10.pptx

3:00 PM 20 ps time stamping with Multigap RPC

Speaker: Crispin Williams (INFN, Bologna)

Slides williams-mrpc.pdf

3:20 PM Space Charge Effects in TPCs

Speaker: Jim Thomas (Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionen forschung mbH (GSI))

Slides RD51SpaceCharge.pdf

3:40 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM → 6:00 PM WG4: Software and simulation

The EVO connection is the same as for WG7 & WG2 above.

Conveners: Alain Bellerive (Carleton University), Rob (IST/CFIF)

EVO link The EVO connection is the same as for WG7 & WG2 above.

4:20 PM Looking at the Saclay gain curves

Speaker: Rob (IST/CFIF)

Slides gainlimit.pdf

4:40 PM Modelling with neBEM

Speaker: Rob (IST/CFIF)

Slides nebem.pdf