CALICE Week at Manchester

8 Sept 2008, 08:00 → 10 Sept 2008, 20:00 Europe/London

University of Manchester, Blackett lecture theatre

Dave Bailey (Manchester), Jean-Claude Brient (LLR - Ecole polytechnique)

Monday, 8 September

09:30 → 12:10 Test beam status and plan (CERN, FNAL)

09:30 HCAL operation and calibration at FNAL

Speaker: Andrea del Rocio Vargas Trevino (DESY)

09:50 Test beam at CERN with Micromegas

Speaker: Cahtherine Adloff (LAPP-IN2P3/CNRS/Univ. Savoie)

10:05 EDHCAL beam tests at cern

Speaker: Mr imad laktineh (ipnl)

Slides BTIL.pdf BTIL.ppt

10:25 preliminary results of the EDHCAL beam test at CERN-PS

Speaker: Dr Vincent Boudry (LLR, Ecole polytechnique)

Slides 2008-09-10_DHCAL_TB_CERN08_Calice_Meeting_m4.odp 2008-09-10_DHCAL_TB_CERN08_Calice_Meeting_m4.pdf

10:45 Test Beam at Fermilab summer 08 : a summary

Speaker: Roman Poeschl

Slides talk080908.pdf

11:30 electronics design and test beam for future prototypes

Speaker: Dr Christophe de LA TAILLE (OMEGA/IN2P3)

Slides cdlt_calice_8sep08.pdf cdlt_calice_8sep08.ppt

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:00 BEAM ECAL in PHENIX

Speaker: Barbara JACAK (Stony Brook Univ.)

14:00 → 16:00 Tile HCAL

14:00 SiPM studies at MPI

Speaker: Dr Frank Simon (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik)

14:15 PDE measurements with SiPMs

Speaker: Mr Alexander Tadday (University of Heidelberg)

Slides Tadday_manchester.pdf

14:30 R&D on directly coupled photo sensors

Speaker: Vishnu Vikhyat Zutshi (Northern Illinois University)

14:45 Simulation of MPPC scintillator systems

Speaker: Prof. Francois Corriveau (IPP / McGill University)

Slides corriveau_direct_coupling.pdf.pdf

15:00 ITEP activities

Speaker: Mikhail Danilov (Inst. for Theoret. & Exptl. Phys. (ITEP))

15:15 EUDET integration prototype design

Speaker: Mr Mathias Reinecke (DESY)

Slides ElectrIn_Manch08_reinecke.pdf ElectrIn_Manch08_reinecke.ppt

15:30 Optical system for HCAL calibration

Speaker: Mr Jaroslav Zalesak (Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)

15:45 Exploring Source Based Energy Calibration Strategies

Speaker: Dr Graham Wilson (KU)

Slides gww_calice_manchester.pdf

16:00 → 16:15 Coffee break

16:15 → 18:15 Gas digital HCAL

16:15 Report on GEM/DHCAL

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

16:35 Report on MICROMEGAS/DHCAL

Speaker: Cahtherine Adloff (LAPP-IN2P3/CNRS/Univ. Savoie)

Slides

• 080908CALICEDHCAL_MicroMegas-1.pdf
• 080908CALICEDHCAL_MicroMegas-1.ppt
• 080908CALICEDHCAL_MicroMegas-2.pdf
• 080908CALICEDHCAL_MicroMegas-2.ppt

16:55 Report on GRPC/DHCAL U.S

Speaker: Dr Jose Repond (Argonne National Laboratory)

17:35 Report on GRPC/DHCAL Europe

Speaker: Mr imad laktineh (ipnl)

Slides eudhcal.pdf eudhcal.ppt

19:00 → 20:00 Welcome reception

Tuesday, 9 September

08:30 → 10:40 Electronics readout session I

08:30 Summary of CALICE/EUDET meeting on electronics in Orsay June 1st

Speaker: Christophe de LA TAILLE (OMEGA-LAL)

Slides cdlt_calice_9sep08.pdf cdlt_calice_9sep08.ppt

08:40 design issues on SKIROC2

Speaker: Julien FLEURY (IN2P3/OMEGA-LAL Orsay)

Slides SKIROC2_issues.pdf SKIROC2_issues.ppt

08:55 SPIROC test results

Speaker: Wei SHEN ()

Slides Wei_Shen_spiroc_test_at_desy_manchester_meeting.pdf

09:15 ADC for ECAL

Speaker: Laurent ROYER (LPC Clermont)

Slides LR_calice_0809.pdf LR_calice_0809.ppt

09:30 Power efficient 12 bits pipeline ADC

Speaker: Fatah Rarbi (LPSC Grenoble)

Slides CALICE_Manchester_LPSC_rarbi.pdf CALICE_Manchester_LPSC_rarbi.ppt

09:45 Summary of e-meetings on electronics

Speaker: Remy CORNAT (LLR)

Slides CALICEuk_elecmeetingd_RC.pdf

08:30 → 10:30 Software session I - Status reports

08:30 Simulation

Speaker: Fabrizio Salvatore (Royal Holloway - University of London)

Slides FabrizioSalvatore-Simulation.pdf FabrizioSalvatore-Simulation.ppt

08:50 Tracking

Speaker: Paul Dominic Dauncey (Blackett Lab.High Energy Phys.Group - Imperial College - Univers)

Slides PaulDauncey-Tracking.pdf PaulDauncey-Tracking.ppt

09:10 SiW ECal

Speaker: Roman Poeschl (LAL)

Slides RomanPoeschl-SiWECal.pdf

09:30 Tile HCal

Speaker: Dr Niels Meyer (DESY)

Slides NielsMeyer-AHCal.pdf

09:50 TCMT

Speaker: Vishnu Vikhyat Zutshi (Northern Illinois University)

Slides VishnuZutshi-TCMT.pdf

10:10 Central processing

Speakers: Dr Niels Meyer (DESY), Dr Shaojun Lu (MPI Munich)

Slides ShaojunLu-MCProduction.pdf

10:40 → 12:40 Mechanics and Assembling

10:40 ECAL EUDET Module - the next months

Speaker: Roman Poeschl (LAL)

10:55 ECAL Moulds & Structures

Speaker: Marc Anduze (LLR)

Slides 080909_EUDET_struct_status.pdf 080909_EUDET_struct_status.ppt

11:10 Design constraints on DIF

Speaker: Dr Remi Jean Noel Cornat (LLR/IN2P3/CNRS)

Slides CALICEuk_MechanicsConstraints_RC.pdf

11:25 SLAB Integration & Thermal Measurements

Speaker: Aboud Falou (LAL)

Slides

• Manchester_sept2008-afalou.pdf
• Manchester_sept2008-afalou.ppt
• Manchester_sept2008-pcornebise.pdf
• Manchester_sept2008-pcornebise.ppt

11:45 ECAL slab Cooling & Mechanics for End-Cap

Speaker: Denis Grondin (LPSC)

Slides 080909_LPSC.pdf

12:05 Eudet module - Gluing of ASU

Speaker: David Bailey (U. Manchester)

Slides DaveGluing.pdf DaveGluing.ppt

12:20 ECAL slab interconnect

Speaker: Maurice Goodrick (U. Cambridge)

document fpgapwr.pdf

pictures ecaldifsmall.jpg

Slides Interconnect2008_09_09_Manchester.pdf Interconnect2008_09_09_Manchester.ppt

Video

• LasSold_Scan1.wmv
• LasSold_Scan2.wmv
• LasSold_Steps.wmv

10:40 → 12:40 Software session II - Review follow-up

10:40 Status and plans to implement review recommendations

Speaker: Dr Niels Meyer (DESY)

Slides NielsMeyer-ReviewFollowup.pdf

11:25 Time for discussion, feedback, whishes

12:45 → 13:45 Lunch Steering Board meeting (restricted)

14:00 → 16:00 ECAL session

14:00 Performance of SiW Ecal during FNAL testbeam

Speaker: Roman Poeschl

Slides talk090908.odp talk090908.pdf

14:15 Report from the EUDET Mechanics Meeting

Speaker: Dr Marc Anduze (LLR - Ecole polytechnique- CNRS/IN2P3)

Slides 080909_EUDET_report.pdf 080909_EUDET_report.ppt

14:30 Electronics for EUDET Prototype

Speaker: Mr Julien Fleury (OMEGA)

Slides JF-Calice_meeting-9_09_2008_.pdf JF-Calice_meeting-9_09_2008_.ppt

14:45 Silicon for the EUDET Prototype

Speaker: Dr Remi Jean Noel Cornat (LLR/IN2P3/CNRS)

Slides CALICEuk_Silicon_RC.pdf

15:00 ScintW Ecal

Speaker: Prof. Tohru Takeshita (Shinshu University)

Slides scecal-progress-CALICE08.pdf

15:40 Report on Digital ECAL (MAPS)

Speaker: Paul Dominic Dauncey (Blackett Lab.High Energy Phys.Group - Imperial College - Univers)

Slides dauncey.pdf dauncey.ppt

16:00 → 18:00 Electronics readout session II

16:00 AHCAL DIF status

Speaker: Mr Mathias Reinecke (DESY)

Slides Reinecke.pdf Reinecke.ppt

16:20 Data concentrator card

Speaker: Franck Gastaldi (LLR Ecole Polytechnique)

Slides Gastaldi.pdf Gastaldi.ppt

16:35 DAQ status and overview

Speaker: Matthew Warren (Departm.of Physics and Astronomy Univ.Coll.London - University C)

Slides Warren.pdf Warren.ppt

16:55 DAQ software

Speaker: Valeria Bartsch (University College London)

Slides Bartsch.pdf Bartsch.ppt

17:15 DAQ demonstrator

Speaker: Tao Wu (Royal Holloway College - University of London)

17:35 Next steps

Speaker: All

16:20 → 18:20 Analysis session I

16:20 Introductory remarks

Speaker: David Ward (High Energy Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

Slides Intro_090908.pdf

16:25 Results from the DHCAL

Speaker: Dr Jose Repond (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides Analysis_Manchester_Sep_2008.pdf Analysis_Manchester_Sep_2008.ppt

16:50 Remarks on ECAL noise

Speaker: David Ward (High Energy Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

Slides DRW_090908.pdf

17:05 Clustering in the Ecal

Speaker: Mr Marcel Reinhard (LLR-Ecole Polytechnique)

Slides MReinhard_090908_GARLICtb.pdf MReinhard_090908_GARLICtb.ppt

17:20 Data quality studies

Speaker: Andrea del Rocio Vargas Trevino (DESY)

Slides vargascaliceManch.pdf.pdf vargascaliceManch.pdf.pdf

18:00 → 20:00 collaboration dinner

Wednesday, 10 September

09:00 → 11:20 Analysis session - 2

09:00 Study of pion showers in the ECAL

(presented by David Ward)

Speaker: Mr Takuma Goto (University of Cambridge)

Slides TakGoto_090908.pdf

09:20 Optimized Energy Resolution with Shower Density Weights

Speaker: Dr Frank Simon (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik)

Slides FS_EnergyAnalysis.pdf

09:40 Tile HCAL electromagnetic analysis

(presented by Niels Meyer)

Speaker: Mr Sebastian Richter (Uni Hamburg)

Slides digitization.pdf

10:00 Tile HCAL HCAL hadronic analysis

Speaker: Dr Angela Lucaci-Timoce (FLC, CALICE, DESY)

Slides hadron_update_3.pdf

10:20 Calibration with hadronic showers

Speaker: Dr Shaojun Lu Lu (MIP Munich)

Slides calibration_with_hadronic_showers.pdf

10:40 Tile HCAL optimization for ILD

Speaker: Dr Angela Lucaci-Timoce (FLC, CALICE, DESY)

Slides lucaci-Manchester.pdf

11:00 Summary of software meetings

Speaker: Dr Niels Meyer (DESY)

Slides 20080910-SWSummary.pdf

11:20 → 11:40 Meeting summary

Speaker: Dr Jean-Claude Brient (LLR)