SiD Workshop at RAL

14 Apr 2008, 09:00 → 16 Apr 2008, 15:00 Europe/London

Cosener's House

Monday, 14 April

09:00 → 10:30 SiD Opening Session

09:00 Welcome To Cosener's

Speaker: Prof. Norman McCubbin (RAL)

Slides SID_Welcome_14Apr08.pdf SID_Welcome_14Apr08.ppt

09:10 SiD-UK Welcome

Speaker: Prof. Philip Burrows (Oxford University)

Slides sid_welcome_apr08.pdf sid_welcome_apr08.ppt

09:20 SiD Welcome and Workshop Plans

SiD Welcome and Workshop Plans

Speaker: John Jaros (SLAC)

Slides SiD_Workshop_Goals_041408.pdf SiD_Workshop_Goals_041408.ppt

09:35 News from WWS/IDAG

Speaker: Jim Brau (U. Oregon)

Slides brau_detector_plan.pdf brau_detector_plan.ppt

10:00 SiD Engineering Status

Speaker: Kurt Krempetz (Fermilab)

Slides RAL_Workshop_4_08.pdf RAL_Workshop_4_08.ppt

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 SiD Status and Overview

11:00 SiD Software overview and Status

Speaker: Norman Graf (SLAC)

Slides SiDSimulationStatusReport_080414_Graf.pdf SiDSimulationStatusReport_080414_Graf.ppt

11:30 SiD Benchmarking

Speaker: Dr Andrei Nomerotski (University of Oxford)

Slides Nomerotski_BenchmarkingSiD20080414.pdf Nomerotski_BenchmarkingSiD20080414.ppt

12:00 Discussion: Defining the SiD Parameters

Speaker: Norman Graf (SLAC)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 GDE and CLIC

14:00 GDE Status and News from the UK

Speaker: Prof. Brian Foster (University of Oxford)

Slides SiD_0408.pdf SiD_0408.ppt

14:30 Detector Concepts for CLIC

Speaker: Wolf-Dieter Schlatter (CERN)

Slides CLIC_Detector_R&D_2.pdf CLIC_Detector_R&D_2.ppt

15:00 → 15:35 Vertexing and Tracking

15:00 Vertex Detector Mechanics

Speaker: Dr Joel Goldstein (Bristol University)

Slides jg_sid0804s.pdf

15:20 Vertex Detector Design issues

Speaker: Dr Ronald Lipton (Fermilab)

Slides SiD_vtx_ral.pdf

15:35 → 16:05 Coffee break

16:05 → 18:10 Vertexing and Tracking

16:05 Digitization and planar tracking geometries

Speaker: Timothy Nelson (SLAC)

Slides Software_080414.pdf

16:25 Seed-based Track reconstruction

Speaker: Richard Partridge (SLAC)

Slides SeedTracker_RAL.pdf SeedTracker_RAL.ppt

16:45 News from the LCFI Vertex Package

Speaker: Mr Ben Jeffery (Oxford University)

Slides jeffery-sid.pdf jeffery-sid.ppt

17:05 Forward Tracking Studies

Speaker: Dr Marcel Vos (IFIC Valencia)

Slides forward_tracking.pdf

17:25 DEPFET-based VTX for SiD

Speaker: Alexei Raspereza (MPI Munich)

Slides Raspereza.pdf.pdf

17:40 Serial Powering

Speaker: Marc Weber (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory-STFC - Science & Technology Facil)

Slides Sid_14April2008.pdf Sid_14April2008.ppt

17:55 Tracking, what's next

Speaker: Marcel Demarteau (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))

Slides sid_track_ral.pdf sid_track_ral.ppt

18:15 → 19:00 Reception at Cosener's

19:00 → 21:00 Dinner at Cosener's

Tuesday, 15 April

08:30 → 10:30 Calorimetry

08:30 SiW ECAL

Speaker: Dr Yannis Karyotakis (Lab. d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Phys. des Particules (LAPP/IN2P3/CNRS Uni. de Savoie))

Slides ECALSiDApril08.pdf ECALSiDApril08.ppt

08:45 kPiX Status

Speaker: Timothy Nelson (SLAC)

Slides KPiX_Status.pdf

09:00 SiW MAPS ECAL

Speaker: Nigel Watson (Birmingham HEP)

Slides watson_15apr2008.ppt

09:15 Digital HCAL with RPC

Speaker: Prof. Harry Weerts (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides SiD_RAL_DHCAL_RPC_hw.pdf SiD_RAL_DHCAL_RPC_hw.ppt

09:30 Digital HCAL with GEMs

Speaker: Prof. Andy White (University of Texas at Arlington)

09:45 DigitalHCAL with Micromegas

Speaker: Dr Catherine Juliette Adloff (Universite de Savoie - LAPP)

Slides 080415SiD_DHCAL_MicroMegas.pdf

10:00 Analog HCAL and TailCatchter

Speaker: Vishnu Vikhyat Zutshi (Northern Illinois University)

10:15 SiPM for analog HCAL

Speaker: Christian Kiesling (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 PFA

11:00 PandoraPFA

Speaker: Dr Mark Thomson (University of Cambridge)

Slides PandoraPFASiDMeeting.pdf

11:30 Argonne PFA status

Speaker: Dr Stephen Magill (Argonne National Laboratory)

12:00 IowaPFA status

Speaker: Dr Matthew Charles (The University of Iowa)

Slides mcharles-pfa.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 PFA

14:00 SiD perfomance using PandoraPFA

Speaker: Mr Marcel Stanitzki (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

Slides pfa-sidworkshop-apr2008.pdf

14:30 SiD studies using Iowa PFA

Speaker: lawrence bronk (MIT)

15:00 PFA - What's next (discussion)

A general discussion about the open issues in PFA

Speaker: Prof. Andy White (University of Texas at Arlington)

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 18:00 Detector Optimization and Benchmarking

16:15 ttbar Analysis

Speaker: Dr Erik Devetak

Slides SiD-Devetak.pdf SiD-Devetak.ppt

16:30 ZHH analysis

Speaker: Dr Yiming Li

Slides 20080415_Sid_ZHH_analysis.pdf 20080415_Sid_ZHH_analysis.ppt

16:45 Sbottom Analysis

Speaker: Tomas Lastovicka

Slides SiD_Meeting_150408.pdf SiD_Meeting_150408.ppt

17:00 Optimizing & Costing

Speaker: Martin Breidenbach (SLAC)

Slides SiD_Optimization_Oxford_April_08_03.pdf SiD_Optimization_Oxford_April_08_03.ppt

17:20 Detector Optimization Discussion

Speakers: Prof. Harry Weerts (Argonne National Laboratory), John Jaros (SLAC)

18:00 → 19:00 Transport to Jesus College

19:00 → 21:30 SiD Workshop Dinner at Jesus College

Wednesday, 16 April

08:30 → 10:10 MDI/Forward/Muon

08:30 MDI Status

Speakers: Prof. Philip Burrows (Oxford University), Dr Thomas Markiewicz (SLAC)

Slides 2008-04-16_RAL_SiD_MDI.pdf 2008-04-16_RAL_SiD_MDI.ppt

09:30 Forward Detectors

Speaker: Bill Morse (BNL)

Slides Forward_Cal.pdf Forward_Cal.ppt

09:50 Muon Detectors

Speaker: Dr Henry Band (U. Wisconsin)

Slides SiD_Muon_Oxford_hrb2.ppt

10:10 → 10:40 Coffee break

10:40 → 12:30 SiD plans and Way ahead

10:40 Workshop Summary, Next Steps, and Life beyond the LOI

Speaker: Prof. Harry Weerts (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides summary_hw.pdf summary_hw.ppt

11:05 Way ahead Discussion

Speakers: Prof. Harry Weerts (Argonne National Laboratory), John Jaros (SLAC)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch