Name: XIII SuperB General Meeting - Isola d'Elba
Start: 2010-05-30T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2010-06-05T12:00:00+02:00
Location: La Biodola, Isola d'Elba

Monday 31 May 2010

08:00 Registration
Registration
08:00 - 08:30
Room: Sala Elba
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Sala Maria Luisa
Contributions

08:30 Workshop Goals - Blair Ratcliff (SLAC) Francesco Forti (PI)

08:45 White paper final walkthrough. - Blair Ratcliff (SLAC) Francesco Forti (PI)

09:00 TDR Technical Choices and Timeline
10:30 coffee break
coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Sala Bonaparte 1
Contributions

11:00 Issues toward the TDR - Frank Porter (Caltech)

11:20 Electronics - Valerio BOCCI (INFN)

11:40 Mechanics - michel lebeau (infn)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Sala Ajaccio
Contributions

11:00 Status of FARICH - Sergey Kononov (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)

11:15 Ongoing timing tests in CRT for FDIRC prototype, and for a pixilated TOF - Jerry Vavra (SLAC)

11:30 Another way looking at predicted rates in DIRC-like TOF: scaling from Belle data - Jerry Vavra (SLAC)

11:45 FTOF update - leonid Burmistrov (LaL)

12:00 Update on the fullsim-based background estimation for FTOF - leonid Burmistrov (LaL)

12:15 First studies of a reconstruction algorithm for the FTOF - NICOLAS ARNAUD (LAL ORSAY CNRS-IN2P3)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Sala Bonaparte 2
Contributions

11:00 General Overview - Gianluigi Cibinetto (FE)

11:15 Status of prototype preparation - Gianluigi Cibinetto (FE) Wander Baldini (FE)

11:40 SiPM characterization and prototype QC - Mirco Andreotti (FE)

11:55 Test beam at FNAL - Gianluigi Cibinetto (FE)

12:15 Discussion about prototype construction and test
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Sala Maria Luisa
Contributions

11:00 Introduction - Giuliana Rizzo (PI)

11:10 Characterization of the FE chip for hybrid pixels - Giulia Casarosa (PI)

11:30 Simulation results of the new readout architecture for pixels - Filippo Maria Giorgi (BO)

11:50 Characterization of the pixel sensor matrix - Maurizio Boscardin (FBK-Trento)
12:30 lunch break
lunch break
12:30 - 16:00
Room: Fuoco di Bosco
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Sala Elena
Contributions

16:00 Report on Lab activities at LNF - Giuseppe Finocchiaro (INFN - LNF)

16:20 Status of TRIUMF Prototype - Christopher Hearty (University of British Columbia/IPP)

16:40 DCH Readout Electronics - Giulietto Felici (LNF)

17:00 Drift Tube Studies - Jean-Francois Caron (UBC)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Sala Bonaparte 1
Contributions

16:00 Breco hadronic analysis B to Knunu - Elisa Manoni (PG)

16:20 Update on Fullsim - Stefano Germani (PG)

16:40 Update on Fastsim - Chih-hsiang Cheng

17:00 Update on B to tau nu nu - Alexander Rakitin (Caltech)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Sala Ajaccio
Contributions

16:00 Proposal for FTOF tests in the CRT - Achille Stocchi (LAL - Univeriste Paris Sud and IN2p3/CNRS)

16:15 Electronics test bench results; electronics and software for the CRT tests - Dominique Breton (LAL ORSAY) Jihane Maalmi (cNRS-LAL)

16:30 How to make progress on the forward side?

17:15 Update on the Padova activities on SiPM - Flavio Dal Corso (PD)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Sala Bonaparte 2
Contributions

16:00 IFR optimization - Nicola Gagliardi (PD)

16:20 Plan for muon ID in Fast simulation - Marcello Rotondo (PD)

16:35 Background studies - Mauro Munerato (FE)

16:55 Status of IFR mechanics - Massimo Benettoni (PD)

17:10 Status of IFR electronics - Angelo Cotta Ramusino (FE)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Sala Maria Luisa
Contributions

16:00 SVT Background Update - Riccardo Cenci (PI)

16:20 Update on pixel bus & pixel module interfaces - Alberto Stabile (INFN - Milano)

16:40 The FSSR2 chip for the SVT - Valerio Re (PV)
17:30 coffee break
coffee break
17:30 - 18:00
18:00
18:00 - 19:30
Room: Sala Ajaccio
Contributions

18:00 Status of the DIRC bar removal procedure - Jerry Vavra (SLAC)

18:15 Front-end ASIC for the barrel electronics - Vanessa TOCUT (LAL/IN2P3/CNRS) hervé lebbolo (LPNHE IN2P3 CNRS)

18:30 TDC for the barrel electronics - Christophe Beigbeder (LAL)

18:45 Electronics integration - Christophe Beigbeder (LAL) Massimo Benettoni (PD)

19:00 Simulation update; first thoughts on the calibration system - Douglas Roberts (University of Maryland)

19:15 What would cluster counting in DCH bring to PID? - Jerry Vavra (SLAC)
18:00 - 19:30
Room: Sala Elena
Contributions

18:00 Cell Layout Garfield Studies - Christopher Hearty (University of British Columbia/IPP)

18:20 Study of BaBar track hit efficiency - Matteo Rama (LNF)

18:40 Cell Shape and Layer Layout Discussion

19:00 Discussion on DCH Mechanical Integration
18:00 - 19:30
Room: Sala Bonaparte 1
Contributions

18:00 Update on crystals from China - Ren-yuan Zhu (Caltech)

18:30 Update on crystals from Saint Gobain - Claudia Cecchi (PG)

18:50 Barrel preamp removal - Chih-hsiang Cheng
18:00 - 19:30
Room: Sala Bonaparte 2
Contributions

18:00 Test of neutron damage in Legnaro - Flavio Dal Corso (PD)

18:15 Electronics studies in Padova - Flavio Dal Corso (PD)

18:30 Discussion about TDR plan and schedule
18:00 - 19:30
Room: Sala Maria Luisa
Contributions

18:00 Update on Trieste activities - Marco Bomben (TS)

18:20 Layer0 support & SVT Mechanics - Filippo Bosi (PI)

18:40 Update on UK Activities - Adrian Bevan (Queen Mary)
20:00 dinner at one's own hotel
dinner at one's own hotel
20:00 - 20:15
Tuesday 1 June 2010
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Sala Maria Luisa
Contributions

08:30 Welcome - Giovanni Batignani (INFN - Pisa)

08:35 Status of SuperB Approval - Umberto Dosselli (INFN - Padova)

08:55 Meeting Goals - Marcello Giorgi (INFN - Pisa)

09:15 SuperB Accelerator - John Seeman (SLAC)

09:40 SuperB Detector - Blair Ratcliff (SLAC)

10:05 SuperB Computing - Andrea Di Simone (RM2)
10:30 coffee break
coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:35
Room: Sala Maria Luisa
Contributions

11:00 SuperB Physics - Adrian Bevan (Queen Mary)

11:20 SuperKEKB Accelerator - Maria Enrica Biagini (LNF)

11:45 Belle-II Detector - Henryk Palka (INP - PAS)

12:10 LHC - walter scandale (cern)
12:35 lunch break
lunch break
12:35 - 16:00
Room: Fuoco di Bosco
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Sala Elena
Contributions

16:00 CDR2 Status - Maria Enrica Biagini (LNF)

16:10 Ring parameters update - Pantaleo Raimondi (LNF)

16:30 Site status for layout V12 - Sandro Tomassini (LNF)

16:50 Beam emittance effects that may affect luminosity - Alexander Chao (SLAC)

17:10 TDR plan for site layout
16:00 - 17:40
Room: Sala Ajaccio
Contributions

16:00 SVT Front-End electronics - Filippo Giorgi

16:10 DCH Front-End electronics - Giulietto FELICI (INFN)

16:30 PID Front-End electronics - Christophe BEIGBEDER (LAL Orsay)

16:50 EMC Front-End electronics - Valerio BOCCI (INFN)

17:10 IFR Front-End electronics - Angelo COTTA RAMUSINO (INFN)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Sala Maria Luisa
Contributions

16:00 Introduction and goals - David Brown (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

16:10 Use of Babar data to tune track hit efficiency in FastSim - Matteo Rama (LNF)

16:25 Update of TOF - NICOLAS ARNAUD (LAL ORSAY CNRS-IN2P3) leonid Burmistrov (LaL)

16:40 Flavor tagging - Simone Stracka (MI)

16:55 Update of the SL tag package - Alejandro Perez (LAL)

17:05 status of HAD tag package - Elisa Manoni (PG)
17:40 coffee break
coffee break
17:40 - 18:00
18:00
18:00 - 19:30
Room: Sala Elena
Contributions

18:00 Background and shield optimization studies with FullSim - Dana Lindemann (McGill University)

18:20 Large-angle Bhabha occupancy studies in the DCH with FastSim - Darren Swersky (McGill University)

18:40 Background FullSim studies - Riccardo Cenci (PI)
18:00 - 19:30
Room: Sala Ajaccio
Contributions

18:00 Backward EMC - Gerald Eigen (University of Bergen)

18:20 Test Beam preparation - Claudia Cecchi (PG)

18:40 Discussion
18:00 - 19:30
Room: Sala Maria Luisa
Contributions

18:00 Introduction

18:05 BBbar background study of B->K(*)nunubar SL tag - Alejandro Perez (LAL)

18:30 BBbar background study of B->K(*)nunubar HAD tag - Elisa Manoni (PG)

18:55 BBbar background study of B->tau nu HAD tag - Alexander Rakitin (Caltech)
18:00 - 19:30
Room: Sala Bonaparte

20:00 dinner at one's own hotel
dinner at one's own hotel
20:00 - 21:30

21:30 Blues Concert
Blues Concert
21:30 - 23:30
Room: Maitù Hall
Wednesday 2 June 2010
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Sala Elena
Contributions

08:30 Polarization in the LER - Uli Wienands (SLAC)

08:55 Latest beam and spin dynamics results - Nicolas Monseu (on the phone) (LPSC, Grenoble, France)

09:15 Beam-beam simulations - Kazuhito Ohmi ohmi (KEK)

09:35 TDR plan for polarization

09:45 Tuning of the interaction region for tau-charm factory in Novosibirsk - Anton Bogomyagkov (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Sala Ajaccio
Contributions

08:30 Tthe R&D program: status and future steps - Mauro Morandin (INFN)

08:40 R&D activities - General computing requirements, new computing architectures and framework - Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

09:00 discussion

09:15 R&D activities - Software development - Steffen LUITZ (SLAC)

09:25 discussion

09:35 R&D Program - Distributed computing - Eleonora Luppi (FE)

09:45 discussion

09:55 R&D activities: User tools and interfaces - Fabrizio Bianchi (TO)

10:00 discussion

10:05 Experience in migrating the code to a modern framework - Peter Richardson
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Sala Maria Luisa
Contributions

08:30 SVT: pair production & rad Bhabha studies update. - Riccardo Cenci (PI)

08:50 DCH background: optimization of the tungsten shields. - Dana Lindemann (McGill University)

09:10 DIRC/fTOF background analysis status report. - NICOLAS ARNAUD (LAL ORSAY CNRS-IN2P3)

09:30 EMC background analysis status report. - stefano germani

09:50 IFR backgrounds: neutron flux studies. - Mauro Munerato (PhD student)
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Sala Bonaparte
Contributions

08:30 First level trigger system status - Steffen LUITZ (SLAC)

08:50 Status of the primitives from DCH - Giulietto Felici (LNF)

09:00 Status of the primitives from EMC - Valerio BOCCI (INFN)

09:10 Open discussion about trigger
10:30 coffee break
coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Sala Elena
Contributions

11:00 Present IR design - Michael Sullivan (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

11:30 Solenoid compensation - Kirk Bertsche (SLAC)

11:50 HOM damped bellows design - Alexander Novokhatski (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

12:10 TRD plan for IR - Michael Sullivan (SLAC)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Sala Bonaparte
Contributions

11:00 Preliminary results of the DS92LV18 rad tolerance tests - Rafaele GIORDANO (Napoli)

11:20 Status of FCTS - Daniel CHARLET (LAL Orsay)

11:35 Status of ROM R&D - Umberto MARCONI (INFN)

11:50 Rules for radiation mitigation - Dominique Breton (LAL ORSAY)

12:05 Status of Online - Steffen LUITZ (SLAC)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Sala Maria Luisa
Contributions

11:00 Geant4 studies of forward EMC and impact of material on resolution - Stefano Germani (PG)

11:20 IFR optimization update - Gianluigi Cibinetto (FE) marcello rotondo (INFN Padova)

11:40 Forward TOF performance in SL and HAD tag decays - Alejandro Perez (LAL) Elisa Manoni (PG)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Sala Ajaccio
Contributions

11:00 Distributed Computing : General Overview - Armando Fella (INFN-CNAF)

11:20 UK status report - Wilson Fergus (RAL)

11:30 Queen Mary Status Report - Adrian Bevan (Queen Mary)

11:40 Pisa Status Report - Enrico Mazzoni (INFN Pisa)

11:50 Napoli Status Report - Silvio Pardi (INFN Napoli)

12:00 IN2P3 Status Report - NICOLAS ARNAUD (LAL ORSAY CNRS-IN2P3)

12:10 Discussion
12:30 lunch break
lunch break
12:30 - 16:00
Room: Fuoco di Bosco
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Sala Elena
Contributions

16:00 Arc cells vacuum design - Alessandro Variola (LAL IN2P3 CNRS)

16:20 Magnet summary update - Maria Enrica Biagini (LNF)

16:40 Beam size measurements - Alan Fisher (on the phone) (SLAC)

17:05 TDR plan for magnet design&refurbishment - Maria Enrica Biagini (LNF)

17:15 TDR plan for vacuum - Alessandro Variola (LAL IN2P3 CNRS) Uli Wienands (SLAC)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Sala Maria Luisa
Contributions

16:00 Bruno background frame production mode: cross checks and optimizations - Andrea Di Simone (RM2)

16:20 Background frames import in the Fast Sim: cross checks and performances

16:35 EMC background: full vs fast comparison. - Chih-hsiang Cheng Stefano Germani

16:55 Reuse of fast event generators in Bruno. - Eugenio Paoloni (PI)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Sala Bonaparte
Contributions

16:00 Open discussion about :

16:05 Ensuring a safe clock distribution

16:15 Link coding and overhead

16:25 Effects of trigger rate and inter-trigger distance

16:35 Power supplies

16:45 Planning future ETD/Online dedicated workshops

16:55 Radiation mitigation
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Sala Ajaccio
Contributions

16:00 Spectroscopy - Riccardo Faccini (RM1)

16:30 B->tau nu - Alexander Rakitin (Caltech)

17:00 Running at charm threshold and rare decays of charm - David Asner (Carleton University)
17:30 coffee break
coffee break
17:30 - 18:00

18:00

18:00 - 19:00
Room: Sala Maria Luisa

19:00 Sangria Cocktail
Sangria Cocktail
19:00 - 20:00
Room: La Ghiotta (the beach bar)
Thursday 3 June 2010
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Sala Maria Luisa
Contributions

08:30 MDI interface issues - Eugenio Paoloni (PI)

08:50 Touschek lifetime+bkgds - Manuela Boscolo (LNF)

09:10 Detector side of MDI - Eugenio Paoloni (PI)

09:30 Test beams - Carsten Hast (SLAC)

09:50 TDR plan for MDI - Eugenio Paoloni (PI) Michael Sullivan (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Sala Elena
Contributions

08:30 Interplay between measurements - Marco Ciuchini (RM3)

08:55 Fitting for New Physics - Luca Silvestrini (INFN, Rome)

09:15 Precision EW Physics at SuperB - Michael Roney (University of Victoria)

09:40 LFV and CPV in tau decays at SuperB - Alberto Cervelli (infn Pisa)

10:05 B->eta' K0 - Pietro Biassoni (MI)
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Sala Ajaccio
Contributions

08:30 Production tool for Shift takers - Luca Tomassetti (INFN and Universita' di Ferrara)

09:00 Fast Simulation Production Request - Matteo Rama (LNF)

09:20 Software Release Update - Marco Corvo (INFN - Padua)

09:40 Shift Takers Management - Mauro Morandin (INFN)
10:30 coffee break
coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:50
Room: Sala Elena
Contributions

11:00 ECI effects and cures - Theo Demma (INFN-LNF)

11:15 Intra Beam Scattering calculations - Theo Demma (INFN-LNF)

11:40 Dynamic aperture status - Pavel Piminov (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)

12:00 Single bunch instabilities - Alexander Novokhatski (SLAC)

12:20 Update on Low Emittance Tuning - Simone Maria Liuzzo (Università di Pisa)

12:40 TDR plan for intensity effects - Alexander Novokhatski (SLAC) Uli Wienands (SLAC)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Sala Ajaccio
Contributions

11:00 Status of Bruno packaging - Andrea Di Simone (RM2)

11:20 SVT & DCH Full Simulation - Riccardo Cenci (University of Maryland)

11:35 EMC Full Simulation - Stefano Germani (PG)

11:55 Discussion and planning
11:00 - 12:55
Room: Sala Maria Luisa
Contributions

11:00 Introduction - William Wisniewski (SLAC)

11:05 IR - Michael Sullivan (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

11:20 EMC Forward Endcap - michel lebeau (infn)

11:35 Forward PID mechanical integration - NICOLAS ARNAUD (LAL ORSAY CNRS-IN2P3)

11:50 DCH Integration Issues - Michael Roney (University of Victoria)

12:05 Detector Transport - Fabrizio Raffaelli (PI)

12:20 DIRC Bar Box Transport Needs - Jerry Vavra (SLAC)

12:35 DIRC & IFR Issues (Massimo Benettoni) - William Wisniewski (SLAC)
11:00 - 12:40
Room: Sala Bonaparte
Contributions

11:00 B->Knunubar - Alejandro Perez (LAL)

11:25 Flavour Tagging - Simone Stracka (MI)

11:40 Charm Mixing and CPV - Brian Meadows (University of Cincinnati)

12:05 SUSY_FLAVOR

12:25 On the road to the TDR
12:50 lunch break
lunch break
12:50 - 16:00
Room: Fuoco di Bosco

16:00

16:00 - 17:30
Room: Sala Bonaparte
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Sala Elena
Contributions

16:00 RF parameters and HOMs - Alexander Novokhatski (SLAC)

16:20 Long phase compensation update - Kirk Bertsche (SLAC)

16:40 LFB, LLRF, TFB update - Alessandro Drago (LNF)

17:00 TDR plan for RF - Alexander Novokhatski (SLAC)

17:10 TDR plan for feedbacks - Alessandro Drago (LNF)
17:30 coffee break
coffee break
17:30 - 18:00
18:00
18:00 - 19:30
Room: Sala Elena
Contributions

18:00 Overall TDR plan+regional work pkgs
18:00 - 19:30
Room: Sala Bonaparte

20:00 social dinner
social dinner
20:00 - 23:00
Room: Fuoco di Bosco
Friday 4 June 2010
08:30
08:30 - 10:00
Room: Sala Elena
Contributions

08:30 Alternative injection scheme - Miro Andrea Preger (LNF)

08:50 Injection transfer lines - Antoine Chance (CEA IRFU)

09:10 Positron source - Freddy Poirier (CNRS/IN2P3/LAL)

09:30 TDR plan for injection and diagnostics - John Seeman (SLAC)
08:30 - 10:10
Room: Sala Maria Luisa
Contributions

08:30 Full Sim Capabilities - Andrea Di Simone (RM2)

08:40 Plans for full sim production - Eugenio Paoloni (PI)

08:50 Planning for Computing Production - Mauro Morandin (INFN)

09:00 Fast Sim Production for Physics - Adrian Bevan (Queen Mary)

09:10 Planning for TDR
10:00 coffee break
coffee break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30
10:30 - 12:30
Room: Sala Maria Luisa
Contributions

10:30 Detector SVT-DCH-PID - Francesco Forti (PI)

10:55 Detector EMC-IFR-Integration - William Wisniewski (SLAC)

11:20 Detector - ETD - Steffen Luitz (SLAC)

11:40 Computing - Mauro Morandin (INFN)

12:05 Physics - Achille Stocchi (LAL - Univeriste Paris Sud and IN2p3/CNRS)
12:30 lunch break
lunch break
12:30 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Sala Maria Luisa
Contributions

14:30 MDI Summary - Eugenio Paoloni (PI)

14:55 Accelerator Overall Summary - Uli Wienands (SLAC)

15:20 IR Summary - Michael Sullivan (SLAC)

15:45 Project Outlook - David Leith (SLAC)
16:00 coffe break
coffe break
16:00 - 16:30

16:30

16:30 - 18:00
Room: Sala Bonaparte 1&2
Saturday 5 June 2010