VIII SuperB General Meeting - Orsay

Name: VIII SuperB General Meeting - Orsay
Start: 2009-02-15T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2009-02-18T18:00:00+01:00
Location: LAL, Orsay

15 Feb 2009, 08:00 → 18 Feb 2009, 18:00 Europe/Rome

LAL, Orsay

Description

Workshop website - Rooms schedule

Sunday, 15 February
- 13:00 → 14:00
 
 Opening the registration and coffee
 
 Location: Bldg 200
- 14:00 → 16:00
 Plenary I: News, Goals of the Meeting
 
 Location: AUDITORIUM
 - 14:00
 
 Welcome 10m
 
 Slides
 - 14:10
 
 News, Goals of the Meeting 25m
 
 Speaker: Marcello Giorgi
 
 Slides
 - 14:35
 
 Results from the DAFNE Tests 25m
 
 Speaker: Mrs Catia Milardi
 
 Slides
 - 15:00
 
 SuperB Machine 25m
 
 Speaker: John Seeman (SLAC)
 
 Slides
 - 15:25
 
 SuperB Detector 25m
 
 Speaker: Dr Blair Ratcliff (SLAC)
 
 Slides
- 16:00 → 16:30
 
 Coffee break 30m
- 16:30 → 17:30
 
 Parallel I: Warming up - Accelerator
 
 Location: SALLE BLEUE
 
 slides
- 16:30 → 17:35
 Parallel I: Warming up - Detector
 
 Location: AUDITORIUM
 - 16:30
 
 Organization and Goals of the Workshop 10m
 
 Speakers: Dr Blair Ratcliff (SLAC), Francesco Forti (PI)
 
 Slides
 - 16:40
 
 Detector Geometry 20m
 
 Speakers: Achille Stocchi, Matteo Rama (LNF)
 
 Slides
 - 17:00
 
 Electronics/DAQ 20m
 
 Speaker: Mr Dominique Breton (LAL Orsay)
 
 Slides
 - 17:20
 
 BaBar D&D 15m
 
 Speaker: Bill Wisniewski
 
 Slides
Monday, 16 February
- 09:00 → 10:30
 Parallel II - Accelerator
 
 Location: AUDITORIUM
 - 09:00
 
 BINP Tau-Charm Project Updates 30m
 
 Speaker: Eugene Levichev (BINP)
 
 Slides
 - 09:30
 
 KEKB and SuperKEKB 30m
 
 Speaker: Yukiyoshi Ohnishi (KEK)
 
 Slides
 - 10:00
 
 Tor Vergata Site Overview 30m
 
 Speaker: Sandro Tomassini (INFN-LNF)
 
 Slides
- 09:00 → 10:30
 Parallel II - DCH
 
 Location: SALLE 100 - BAT 208
 - 09:00
 
 Introduction 25m
 
 Speaker: G. Finocchiaro
 
 Slides
 - 09:25
 
 Fast simulation studies of DCH performances in different configurations 15m
 
 Speaker: Matteo Rama
 
 Slides
 - 09:40
 
 "Simulation study of Drift Chamber performance 30m
 
 Speaker: G. Tatishvili
 
 Slides
 - 10:10
 
 Garfield studies 10m
 
 Speaker: Piero Patteri (LNF)
- 09:00 → 10:30
 Parallel II - EMC
 
 Location: SALLE 129
 - 09:00
 
 Update on crystal studies 30m
 
 Speaker: Ren-yuan Zhu (Caltech)
 
 Slides
 - 09:30
 
 Status of mechanical property studies 15m
 
 Speaker: Claudia Cecchi (Perugia)
 
 Slides
 - 09:45
 
 Monte Carlo studies of EC performance 20m
 
 Speaker: Stefano Germani (Perugia)
 
 Slides
 - 10:05
 
 A CsI/LYSO endcap configuration 20m
 
 Speaker: David Hitlin (Caltech)
 
 Slides
- 09:00 → 10:30
 Parallel II - IFR
 
 Location: SALLE 166
 - 09:00
 
 General Overview 15m
 
 Speaker: Gianluigi Cibinetto (Ferrara University)
 
 Slides
 - 09:20
 
 Mechanical Design 15m
 
 Speaker: Vito Carassiti (INFN Ferrara)
 
 Slides
 - 09:40
 
 Electronics Design 15m
 
 Speaker: Roberto Malaguti (INFN Ferrara)
 
 Slides
 - 10:00
 
 Fast simulation status 15m
 
 Speaker: Marcello Rotondo (INFN Padova)
 
 Slides
 - 10:15
 
 Full simulation status 10m
 
 Speaker: Mauro Munerato (Ferrara University)
 
 Slides
- 09:00 → 10:30
 Parallel II - PID
 
 Location: SALLE 101
 - 09:00
 
 On-going FDIRC test with the Hawaii waveform digitizing electronics in the cosmic ray telescope 20m
 
 Speaker: G. Varner & J. Va'Vra
 
 Slides
 - 09:20
 
 Photon sensor R&D for the Forward PID device 20m
 
 Speaker: Prof. Peter Krizan (Ljubljana Univ. and J. Stefan Institute)
 
 Slides
 - 09:40
 
 Studies of SiPMTs for forward PID 20m
 
 Speaker: Flavio Dal Corso (PD)
 
 Slides
 - 10:00
 
 Focusing Aerogel RICH with SiPM photodetectors 20m
 
 Speaker: Dr Evgeniy Kravchenko (Budker INP)
 
 Slides
 - 10:20
 
 PID in FastSim 5m
 
 Speaker: Dr NICOLAS ARNAUD (LAL ORSAY CNRS-IN2P3)
 
 Slides
 - 10:25
 
 AOB 5m
 
 Speaker: All
- 09:00 → 10:30
 Parallel II - SVT
 
 Location: SALLE BLEUE
 - 09:00
 
 Plans for TDR 15m
 
 Speaker: Giuliana Rizzo (PI)
 
 Slides
 - 09:15
 
 Testbeam results on MAPS 20m
 
 Speaker: Stefano Bettarini (PI)
 
 Slides
 - 09:35
 
 Testbeam results on Striplets with FSSR2 20m
 
 Speaker: Marco Bomben (TS)
 
 Slides
 - 09:55
 
 Vertex Detector Modeling in FastSim 20m
 
 Speaker: Dr David Brown (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
 
 Slides
- 10:30 → 11:00
 
 Coffee break 30m
- 11:00 → 13:00
 Parallel III - Accelerator
 
 Location: AUDITORIUM - BLDG 200
 - 11:00
 
 Crab Waist at DAFNE: Numerical vs Experimental Results 30m
 
 Speaker: Mikhail Zobov (INFN-LNF)
 
 Slides
 - 11:30
 
 Lattice Overview 30m
 
 Speaker: Pantaleo Raimondi (LNF)
 
 Slides
 - 12:00
 
 Dynamic Aperture for SuperB 30m
 
 Speaker: Eugene Levichev (BINP)
 
 Slides
 - 12:30
 
 Injection system 30m
 
 Speaker: Roberto Boni (LNF)
 
 Slides
- 11:00 → 12:30
 Parallel III - Computing
 
 Location: Salle Verte - Bldg 209
 - 11:00
 
 SuperB GRID: starting work 20m
 
 Speaker: Armando Fella (CNAF)
 
 Slides
 - 11:20
 
 Discussion 20m
 - 11:40
 
 TDR WBS status 30m
 
 Speaker: Mauro Morandin (INFN)
 
 Spreadsheet
- 11:00 → 12:55
 Parallel III - DCH
 
 Location: Salle 100 - Bldg 208
 - 11:00
 
 Lab activities at LNF 15m
 
 Speaker: R. de Sangro
 
 Slides
 - 11:15
 
 Setup at UVIC 10m
 
 Speaker: M. Roney
 
 Slides
 - 11:25
 
 Activities for the TDR and definition of the WBS for the DCH 1h 30m
 
 Speaker: Convener: Giuseppe Finocchiaro (Home Institution:)
 
 Slides
- 11:00 → 11:50
 Parallel III - EMC
 
 Location: SALLE 129
 - 11:00
 
 Rear endcap update 20m
 
 Speaker: Prof. Gerald Eigen (University of Bergen)
 
 Slides
 - 11:20
 
 Test beam options 15m
 
 Speakers: Claudia Cecchi (Perugia), Prof. Gerald Eigen (University of Bergen)
 
 Slides
 - 11:35
 
 Discussion of TDR 15m
- 11:00 → 12:30
 Parallel III - IFR
 
 Location: Salle 166 - Bdlg 200
 - 11:00
 
 IFR R&D Status in Ferrara 25m
 
 Speaker: Wander Baldini (INFN Ferrara)
 
 Slides
 - 11:30
 
 IFR R&D Status in Padova 15m
 
 Speaker: Flavio Dal Corso (INFN Padova)
 
 Slides
- 11:00 → 11:50
 Parallel III - PID
 
 Location: Salle 101 - Bldg 200
 - 11:00
 
 Forward TOF counter (beam test results and out related issues) 20m
 
 Speaker: J. Va'Vra
 
 Slides
 - 11:20
 
 MCP aging 15m
 
 Speaker: E. Kravchenko
 
 Slides
 - 11:35
 Electronics R&D in Orsay 15m
 
 Speaker: D. Breton & V. Tocut
 
 Slides
 
 SAM_PID.ppt
 
 vanessa.pdf.pdf
 
 vanessa.ppt.PPT
- 11:00 → 12:30
 Parallel III - SVT
 
 Location: Salle bleue Bldg 200
 - 11:00
 
 Plans on CMOS MAPS and Pixel with Vertical Integration 20m
 
 Speaker: Valerio Re (PV)
 
 Slides
 - 11:20
 
 Plans for pixel module integration electronics 15m
 
 Speaker: Mauro Citterio (MI)
 
 Slides
 - 11:35
 
 DAQ for SVT 15m
 
 Speaker: Mauro Villa (BO)
 
 Slides
 - 11:50
 
 Low Mass Support and Cooling for Layer0 pixel modules 20m
 
 Speaker: Filippo Bosi (PI)
 
 Slides
- 11:50 → 12:30
 
 Parallel III - PID/EMC
 
 Location: SALLE 101
- 12:30 → 14:00
 
 Lunch 1h 30m
- 14:00 → 16:00
 Parallel IV - Joint Session Machine Detector Interface
 
 Location: AUDITORIUM - Bldg 200
 - 14:00
 
 IR Design & SR Backgrounds 30m
 
 Speaker: Michael Sullivan (SLAC)
 
 Slides
 - 14:30
 
 QD0 Design 30m
 
 Speaker: Simona Bettoni (CERN)
 
 Slides
 - 15:00
 
 Single Beam Backgrounds 30m
 
 Speaker: Manuela Boscolo (INFN-LNF)
 
 Slides
 - 15:30
 
 Luminosity Backgrounds 30m
 
 Speaker: Eugenio Paoloni (PI)
 
 Slides
- 14:00 → 15:30
 Parallel IV - Physics
 
 Location: Salle 101 - Bldg 200
 - 14:00
 
 NMSSM 20m
 
 Speaker: Florian Domingo (LPT)
 
 Slides
 - 14:20
 
 Effective theory approach to the LFV 20m
 
 Speaker: Asmaa ABADA (LPT)
 
 Slides
 - 14:40
 
 b-->s transitions 20m
 
 Speaker: Tobias Hurth (CERN)
 
 Slides
 - 15:00
 
 SUSY-GUT 20m
 
 Speaker: Jon Parry (Kavli Institute, China)
 
 Slides
- 14:00 → 15:30
 Parallel IV -Computing: fast simulation
 
 Location: Salle 129 - Bldg 200
 - 14:00
 
 PacTrk overview 15m
 
 Speaker: Dr David Brown (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
 
 Slides
 - 14:15
 
 Hit confusion 15m
 
 Speaker: Doug Roberts (U. Maryland)
 
 Slides
 - 14:30
 
 EMC 15m
 
 Speaker: Dr Chih-hsiang Cheng (Caltech)
 
 Slides
 - 14:45
 
 IFR 5m
 
 Speaker: Dr marcello rotondo (INFN Padova)
 
 Slides
 - 14:50
 
 Update of DIRC simulation 10m
 
 Speaker: Prof. Brian Meadows (University of Cincinnati)
 
 Slides
 - 15:00
 
 Aerogel PID 10m
 
 Speaker: Dr Evgeniy Kravchenko (Budker INP)
 
 Slides
 - 15:10
 
 PID in FastSim 5m
 
 Speaker: Dr NICOLAS ARNAUD (LAL ORSAY CNRS-IN2P3)
 
 Slides
- 15:30 → 16:00
 
 Coffee break 30m
- 16:00 → 18:10
 Parallel V - Accelerator
 
 Location: Salle 01 - Bldg 200
 - 16:00
 
 IR Design Status 20m
 
 Speaker: Michael Sullivan (SLAC)
 
 Slides
 - 16:20
 
 Luminosity Measurements at DAFNE 30m
 
 Speaker: Nicolas Arnaud (LAL ORSAY CNRS-IN2P3)
 
 Slides
 - 16:50
 
 HER IR Optics with Spin Rotator 20m
 
 Speaker: Walter Wittmer (SLAC)
 
 Slides
 - 17:10
 
 Fast Luminosity Feedback 20m
 
 Speaker: Kirk Bertsche (SLAC)
 
 Slides
 - 17:30
 
 Fast Luminosity Feedback 2 20m
 
 Speaker: Alessandro Drago (LNF)
 
 Slides
 - 17:50
 
 Application of Normal Forms Analisys to SuperB 20m
 
 Speaker: Diego Quatraro (CERN)
 
 Slides
- 16:00 → 17:30
 Parallel V - Computing: Full Simulation
 
 Location: Salle 129 - Bldg 200
 - 16:00
 
 Core development of Full Simulation 20m
 
 Speaker: A. Di Simone (Roma II)
 - 16:20
 
 Status of Background simulation 20m
 
 Speaker: E. Paoloni (Pisa)
 - 16:40
 
 Status and requirements from Subdetectors 20m
 
 Speaker: Subdetector representatives
 - 17:00
 
 Plans of future works 30m
 
 Speaker: (All)
- 16:00 → 19:00
 Parallel V - detector electronics
 
 Location: AUDITORIUM - Bldg 200
 - 16:00
 
 Modelisation of SuperB Front-End Electronics 15m
 
 Speaker: Dominique Breton, Jihane Maalmi (LAL)
 
 Slides
 - 16:15
 
 A simple and convenient tool for behavioral simulation 15m
 
 Speaker: Sergio Cavaliere (INFN-NA)
 
 Slides
 - 16:30
 
 Defining high speed serial links for SuperB 15m
 
 Speaker: A. Aloisio, R. Giordano (Napoli)
 
 Slides
 - 16:45
 
 SVT front-end electronics 15m
 
 Speaker: Mauro Villa (BO)
 
 Slides
 - 17:00
 
 Calorimeter front-end electronics 15m
 
 Speaker: Martin Kocian
 
 Slides
 - 17:15
 
 IFR front-end electronics 15m
 
 Speaker: Roberto Malaguti (INFN Ferrara)
 - 17:30
 
 Ongoing R&D in Orsay/Saclay on ps time measurement 15m
 
 Speaker: Dominique Breton (LAL)
 
 Slides
 - 17:45
 
 R&D for PID front-end electronics 15m
 
 Speaker: Gary Varner (Hawaii), Jerry Va'vra (SLAC)
 
 Slides
- 16:00 → 18:30
 Parallel V - detector geometry group
 
 Location: Salle 166 - Bldg 200
 - 16:00
 
 SVT studies 10m
 
 Speaker: Dr Nicola Neri (Universita' di Pisa & INFN)
 
 Slides
 - 16:10
 
 study of deltaT in B->Kspi0 10m
 
 Speaker: Dr Gabriele Simi (UMD College Park, MD)
 
 Slides
 - 16:20
 
 study of B and D vertexing 10m
 
 Speaker: Mr Aritoki Suzuki (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
 
 Slides
 - 16:30
 
 mu/pi separation using TOF in DIRC 10m
 
 Speaker: Prof. Brian Meadows (University of Cincinnati)
 
 Slides
 - 16:40
 
 physics case of forw. PID 20m
 
 Speakers: Achille Stocchi, Leonid Burmistrov (LAL)
 - 17:00
 
 Breco in FastSim. Impact of PID 15m
 
 Speaker: Elisa Manoni (PG)
 
 Slides
 - 17:15
 
 endcap EMC - plans 20m
 
 Speakers: Dr Chih-hsiang Cheng (Caltech), Elisa Manoni (PG)
 
 Slides
 - 17:35
 
 IFR optimization strategy 10m
 
 Speakers: Gianluigi Cibinetto (FE), Dr marcello rotondo (INFN Padova)
 
 Slides
 - 17:45
 
 AFit 15m
 
 Minutes
 
 Speaker: Adrian Bevan (Queen Mary, U. London)
 
 Slides
 
 This talk provides an introducton to a fitting/analysis interface to RooFit and TMVA. The interface is available as a stand-alone package that can be compiled against ROOTv5.20, and comes with exampls of how to do a simple branching fraction fit, and how to set up a time-dependent CP violation PDF. More details, including the source code and a user guide, are available from http://pprc.qmul.ac.uk/~bevan/afit/
- 19:00 → 22:00
 
 Reception 3h
Tuesday, 17 February
- 09:00 → 10:30
 Plenary II - Future Flavour Physics Projects
 
 Location: AUDITORIUM - Bldg 200
 - 09:00
 
 Physics Case of SuperLHCB 30m
 
 Speaker: Andrey Goloutvin
 - 09:30
 
 Super KEK B Project 30m
 
 Speaker: Christoph Schwanda
 - 10:00
 
 SuperB Program 30m
 
 Speaker: Marco Ciuchini
 
 Slides
- 10:30 → 11:00
 
 Coffee break 30m
- 11:00 → 12:50
 Plenary III - Session with Funding Agencies Representatives
 
 Location: AUDITORIUM - Bldg 200
 - 11:00
 
 The European strategy 20m
 
 Speaker: S. Stapnes
 - 11:20
 
 SuperB : view from INFN 30m
 
 Speaker: R. Petronzio
 
 Slides
 - 11:50
 
 Round Table of funding agencies 30m
 
 Speakers: D. Mc Farlane, J. Fuster, M. Spiro, P. Petronzio, S. Skrinsky, S. Stapnes
 - 12:20
 
 Discussion 30m
- 12:30 → 14:00
 
 Lunch 1h 30m
- 14:00 → 15:30
 Parallel VI - Accelerator
 
 Location: Salle 101 - Bldg 200
 - 14:00
 
 Intra Beam Scattering Calculations 20m
 
 Speaker: Susanna Guiducci (LNF)
 
 Slides
 - 14:20
 
 Electron Cloud Instability 20m
 
 Speaker: Theo Demma (INFN-LNF)
 
 Slides
 
 Video
 - 14:40
 
 Coherent Synchrotron Radiation Calculations 20m
 
 Speaker: Gabriele Bassi (Cockcroft Institute)
 
 Slides
 - 15:00
 
 RF System Parameters and Impedance Budget 30m
 
 Speaker: Alexander Novokhatski (SLAC)
 
 Slides
- 14:00 → 15:30
 Parallel VI - Joint Detector + Computing
 
 Location: AUDITORIUM - Bldg 200
 - 14:00
 
 From the Frascati Workshop to the TDR 20m
 
 Speaker: Mauro Morandin (INFN)
 
 Slides
 - 14:20
 
 Collaborative Tools 20m
 
 Speaker: Dr Fabrizio Murtas (LNF)
 
 Slides
 - 14:40
 
 Fast Simulation 20m
 
 Speaker: Dr David Brown (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
 
 Slides
 - 15:00
 
 Full Simulation 20m
 
 Speaker: Andrea Di Simone (RM2)
 
 Slides
- 14:00 → 15:55
 Parallel VI - Physics
 
 Location: Salle 129 - Bldg
 - 14:00
 
 B ->D exclusive 20m
 
 Speaker: Benoit Blossier (LPT)
 
 Slides
 - 14:25
 
 Comments on hadronic form factors in exclusive B and D decays 25m
 
 Speaker: Alex Khodjamirian (University of Siegen)
 
 Slides
 - 14:50
 
 Soft photon issues of leptonic B decays 20m
 
 Speaker: Damir Becirevic (LPT)
 
 Slides
 - 15:10
 
 Leptonic B/D decays 15m
 
 Speaker: Benjamin Hass (LPT)
 
 Slides
 - 15:25
 
 B-->Kpipi gamma, an interesting channel for SuperB ? 15m
 
 Speaker: Pablo Del AmomSanchez (LPNHE Paris)
 
 Slides
- 15:30 → 16:00
 
 Coffee break 30m
- 16:00 → 17:40
 Parallel VII - Accelerator
 
 Location: Salle 101 - Bldg 200
 - 16:00
 
 PEP Hardware 20m
 
 Speaker: Michael Sullivan (SLAC)
 
 Slides
 - 16:20
 
 Low emittance tuning 30m
 
 Speaker: Maria Enrica Biagini (LNF)
 
 Slides
 - 16:50
 
 Feedback System Design 30m
 
 Speaker: Alessandro Drago (LNF)
 
 Slides
 - 17:20
 
 Polarised Positron Source 20m
 
 Speaker: Dr alessandro variola (LAL IN2P3 CNRS)
 
 Slides
- 16:00 → 17:30
 Parallel VII - Joint Detector + Physics
 
 Location: AUDITORIUM - Bldg 200
 - 16:00
 
 Physics Updates for Warwick 20m
 
 Speaker: Achille Stocchi
 
 Slides
 - 16:20
 
 Benchmark Channels for Detector Geometry Decisions 20m
 
 Speaker: Matteo Rama (LNF)
 
 Slides
 - 16:40
 
 Detector Simulation Tools for Physics 15m
 
 Speaker: Matteo Rama (LNF)
 
 Slides
Wednesday, 18 February
- 09:00 → 10:30
 Parallel VIII - Organisational Issues - Accelerator
 
 Location: Salle 101 - Bldg 200
 - 09:00
 
 Discussion on Future Work for Mini-MAC & Collaboration Topics 1h
 
 Slides
- 09:00 → 10:30
 
 Parallel VIII - Organisational Issues - Computing
 
 Location: Salle 166 - Bldg 200
- 09:00 → 11:00
 Parallel VIII - Organisational Issues - Detector
 
 Location: AUDITORIUM - Bldg 200
 
 slides
 - 09:00
 
 SVT 20m
 
 Slides
 - 09:20
 
 DCH 20m
 
 Slides
 - 09:40
 
 PID 20m
 
 Slides
 - 10:00
 
 EMC 20m
 
 Slides
 - 10:20
 
 IFR 20m
 
 Slides
 - 10:40
 
 Electronics 20m
 
 Slides
- 09:00 → 10:30
 
 Parallel VIII - Organisational Issues - Physics
 
 Location: Salle 129 - Bldg 200
- 10:30 → 11:00
 
 Coffee break 30m
- 11:00 → 13:00
 Plenary IV - Summary of the Parallel Sessions
 
 Location: AUDITORIUM
 - 11:00
 
 Summary of Physics Sessions 25m
 
 Speaker: Prof. Achille Stocchi (LAL - Univeriste Paris Sud and IN2p3/CNRS)
 
 Slides
 - 11:25
 
 Summary of Accelerator Sessions 25m
 
 Speaker: Maria Enrica Biagini (LNF)
 
 Slides
 - 11:50
 
 Summary of Detector Sessions 25m
 
 Speaker: Francesco Forti (PI)
 
 Slides
 - 12:15
 
 Summary of Computing Sessions 25m
 
 Speaker: Mauro Morandin (INFN)
 
 Slides
 - 12:40
 
 Closeout 20m
 
 Speaker: Guy Wormser (LAL)
 
 Slides
- 13:00 → 14:00
 
 Lunch 1h
- 14:00 → 17:30
 
 Executive Committees
 
 Location: AUDITORIUM
- 14:00 → 15:30
 
 Proto Technical Board Meeting